History of Chairs exam 2

Name, creator, style

Baby Brownie Camera, Teague, Rational Design, technical efficiency with manual for use. Buttons and use clearly labeled with color.

Technical efficiency

The father of industrial design

Raymond Loewy

Design This Day author description

Teague, focused on technical efficiency, what needs to be done today

Never Leave Well Enough Alone, author, description

Loewy, message of always improving.

Name, designer

Coldspot Super Six Refrigerator, Loewy, rounded edges, flush door, chrome, weighted door

Designing for People, author, message

Henry Dreyfuss, eliminating excess decoration, take object and improve its function

Anthropometric Measurement

measurement of human individuals to help understand how people are configured

human scale

machines should adapt to humans and their sizes

Name, inventor,

Josephine and Joe Human scale charts, Dreyfuss

Name, creator, description

Mimeograph, Raymond Loewy, improve function while improving how it looksr

rational design

function as the controlling factor in problem solving a design issue. Ease of use, marketability, multiplying its functions

Restyling

if you have two products that have the same price, function and quality, then the better looking product wins

MAYA

Most Advanced Yet Acceptable, balance between attraction to the new and fear of the unfamiliar

Luck Strikes Cigarettes

made the packaging pretty, its toasted. Loewy

Name, creator

Model 300 Telephone, Henry Dreyfuss. Synthetic plastic doesn’t conduct heat, lightweight. Handset is more efficient. Weighted base, dial angle improved. Operator feature

name

Kodak camera, box camera

Name inventor

First telephone, alexander Graham bell

name

Candlestick telephone

name

handset telephone

Name, inventor, description

Candlestick telephone with dial, Strowger. early dial version with finger stop

Name

Rotary dial telephone, have finger stop for dial

Name, inventor, description

Coil chord telephone, Dreyfuss, clear numbers to see while dialing, dial angle flatter, chord is coiled for convenience and durability

Name, inventor

Princess telephone, Dreyfuss

Name, inventor. Description

Touchtone telephone, Dreyfuss, square push buttons to dial. Number format in reverse of numerical from adding machine

Name, inventor, description

Trimline telephone, Dreyfuss, wide base and recessed numbers to easily hold and dial numbers

name, description

Baby Brownie Camera, original version

Ergonomics

Scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system to optimize human well being and overall system performance

Biomorphic molding

molding based on human user. first stage of ergonomics design

Name, inventor, description

Knife Handles, Thomas Lamb, created with biomorphic molding

name

Bahco Knife handle

name

Microsoft intellimouse explorer

designer

Ergonomi design group cutlery

name, description

Fiskars scissors, left right versions, handles molded to improve angles of use, flattened blades to glide along cutting edge

name, description

knee chair, weight is not supported by your spine while still in alignment, inconvenient to get in and out of

name, inventor, descriptionm

rocker knee chair, Stokke Design chair, rocking function to energize and improve heart circulation. Easier to get in and ou

name, inventor, description

Ergon chair, Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick, different sizes

name, inventor

Aeron chair, Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick, lots of modification, pellicle weave that is flexible to mold to body

name, inventor, description

Radius toothbrush, Foley and O’Halloran, thumbplate to guide user to hold properly

Neo Functionalist Design

Hochshule fur Gestalung, or Ulm/HfG

school for neo functionalist design

Max Bill

minimalist approach, clean lines pure form. Director of the HfG school. minimalist clock

Basic Course for HfG

applied science and math focus. Furniture design using a math concept

2nd year project of HfG

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scientific operationalism

science meets technology meets design. working in teams, create designs that fit together within a system. Homogenous products and environmental ensembles

2nd year product design

design a human machine system. Human user in control of system. look at all features as individual parts of the system. Scooter project

3rd year product design

corporate identity project. Apply logo/ corporate identity to create different items associated with the corporation in a style that matches the identity.

Real life project

3rd year project, sponsored by Braun

Name, company, designer, description

Braun Electric razor, Guggelot, Rams, Muller. Ergonomic angle of holding the razor. ridges to stabilize in hand

name, designer, description

Braun Electric Razor, Gugelot, Rams, Muller, ergonomic shape, rotating blade that can be taken apart to clean it.

name, creator, description

Razor with case, Dieter Rams, carrying case with cleaning fluid and brushes

Name, creator, description

Logo for Lufthansa, Otl Achier, created by one of faculty at HfG, symbolizes movement forward and progress. Yellow corporate identity design project color present

Who created pictograms for Summer Olympic games and logo

Otl Achier . Gridded pattern that follow vertical and horizontal lines. all linear lines ends rounded so no hands and feet. Joints showed as circles, emphasizes motion. Pictograms influence sign creation around the world. Olympic logo shows symbolism towards the sun with the garland and to the 5 rings

name, designer, description

Lettera 22/32 typewriter, Marcello Nizzoli, type space visible to see what you are typing. Type basket reduced in size. Type face can be corrected if you see a mistake. Window created to allow user to fix type bar clash. Bottomless to encourage people to properly push down keys.

name, designer, description

IBM Typewriter, Eliot Noyes. Electric typewriter. Marketed as electric. return key added

name, designer, description

IBM Selectric typewriter, Eliot Noyes, internal mechanism changed, platen now stays stationary. Type ball moves back and forth along track to output letters.

less, but better

design approach of Dieter Rams. Not being decorative, minimalist approach while improving functionality

name, designer, description

SK2 Radio, Dieter Rams, minimalist, functionality is very simple. Small but made the entire thing look like a speaker so user trusted that it could produce loud sound

Name, creator, description

T3 radio, dieter rams, circular shapes, simple and efficiency

Ram’s principles of good design

design must be aethetic, unobtrusive, as little design as possible, efficient

Name, creator, description

Sk4 Radio and phonograph, Dieter Rams and Hans Gugelot. Systems approach, radio uses squares but phonograph attachments are circular. Added plexiglass cover because people wanted to see beneath and ensure that it was operating properly without damaging anything

Spaceship Earth

Buckminster Fuller’s idea that we should operate on Earth as a system as we live on earthe

ephemeralization

Buckminster Fuller was aware that there are finite resources on the planet so we need to do more with less

name, creator, description

Geodesic Dome, Fuller, enclose the largest amount of interior space with the least amount of material

name, creator, description

Dymaxion Car, Fuller, systems approach to a car, very spacious inside while emphasizing being aerodynamic, 3 wheels, 2 front drive wheels and one rear steered wheel

tensegrity

Fuller’s idea of a system isolated rigid compression struts, floating within continuous network of tension cables. This creates a self balancing structure where rigid elements never touch

Mid Century Modernism

Originally called good design, WWII war industry influence.

Eliot Noyes in Good Design

director of industrial design at MOMA, held competitions for the good design style and awarded winnersG

Good design characteristics

emphasis on function, respect for materials, mass production, well designed and moderate in price. Appeal to soldiers returning from war who have to live and furnish small apartments.

name, designers, description

Molded chairs with compound curves, Charles Eames and Aero Saarinen, first place chairs winners for MOMA good design competition because of ergonomical

Good design materials

Synthetic resins and glues used to laminate wood. learned and used during WWII and applied to furniture design. Molds are shaped into curves to be ergonomic

name, creator

Leg splint, Charles and Ray Eames, synthetic resins to enhance wood veneers

Name, creator

Molded chairs with compound curves, Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen

name, creator, description

LCW chair, Charles and Ray Eames, exposed bolts and rubber shock mounts, gives responsive backrest

name, designer, description

Molded polyester chair, Charles and Ray Eames, aluminum Eiffel tower base, golden means proportions

name,