quiz 4

Stiletto Studios (German, 1980s)

"If society plans obsolescence, the only possible enduring design is one that deals with that obsolescence, a design that comes to terms with it, maybe accelerating it, maybe ironizing it, maybe getting along with it. . . And then I don't understand why enduring design is better than disappearing design." (consumers rest)

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)

"[I like] elements which are hybrid rather than 'pure', compromising rather than 'clear', distorted rather than 'straightforward', ambiguous rather than 'articulated', perverse as well as 'impersonal', conventional rather than 'designed', accommodating rather than 'excluding', redundant rather than simple, vestigial as well as innovating, inconsistent and equivocal rather than direct and clear."

Frisbee

(1957) 1871 Frisbie Pie Co. founded in Bridgeport, Connecticut: pie tins thrown back and forth 1905 either through local children, factory workers, college students at Yale, the pie tins are tossed around 1940-50s Fred Morrison tries selling discs to no avail 1957 Wham-O buys up the Pluto Platter, names it Frisbee so they can hold the copyright 1964 Wham-O hires "Steady" Ed Headrick who redesigns the disc

Hula Hoop

(1957) 1957 Wham-O hears of Australian bamboo "exercise hoops", so they manufactured 42-inch hoops with Marlex plastic. Inspired by an Australian exercise hoop Becomes raging success; first major fad 1958 twenty-five million plastic hoops were sold in less than four months, and in two years sales reached more than 100 million unit

Herb Lubalin

(American, 1918-1981), typo-pictograms; U&lc Graphic designer in NY city Phototype, Photo negatives inlargde and overlayed type ect. Clip art and photo reproduced wood and hand drawn type Work icons with letterforms and create typographic pictures Editorial designer for small magiazines "eros" every photo (contact sheet) was used of marlin Monroe Upper and lowercase (U&lc) typographic magazine Avant Garde-believed they were ahead in society

Andy Warhol

(American, 1928-1967) multiples; cultural icons Best known, Born in Pittsburgh Known for his multiples Bringing in mass production principles of consumer economy, Screen print Popular products, cambells to celebrities/icons Money, marline Monroe, Sherman maul

Seymour Chwast

(American, b, 1931) Partnered with Glaser Push-pin studios

Robert Venturi

(American, b. 1925), architect, product designer Product design: series of chairs based on history 18th centure queen ann chair, laminate, art deco chair writer and critic learning from las vegas: pre glamour architecture, signage, pop art

Milton Glaser

(American, b. 1929) I (heart) NY for state of NY Push-pin studios

Michael Graves

(American, b. 1934), architect, product designer Target home goods Furniture-dressing table resembling skyscraper Decoration

Paul Hawken

(American, b. 1946), The Ecology of Commerce (1993); Natural Capitalism (1999) Mail order service, boutique store; Pre Martha stuart Left to publish essays and books on alternative economies A declaration of sustainability 1999

April Greiman

(American, b. 1948) Study at bausil with weingart College, iconography 19th amendment stamp

William McDonough

(American, b. 1951) & Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (New York, 2002) The Next Industrial Revolution (2001) [video shown in Sources on October 13, 2010] "Cradle to Cradle: Designing a Hopeful Future with Inspiration from Living Systems" [lecture at Xavier, October 25, 2010] Green design hit the market British found a phonebook the saved space and made it more readable with cleaning up letterspacing Ecology + Economy + Equity = Abundance for all—beyond Sustainability Technical Life Cycle Products of Service Biological Life Cycle Waste = Food

Victor Papanek

(Austrian-American, 1927-1999), Design for the Real World (1971, 1984); The Green Imperative (1995) Grad studies in America, taught, world traveler Human ecology and social change Extension of ideas from traveling and teaching Challenges: single women taking care of children put laundry matte in a park

Ettore Sottsass

(Austrian-Italian, 1917-2007) designed for Olivetti designed playful pop type writers studio ceramics, huge instillations pieces founded Memphis

Mary Quant

(British, b. 1934) New wave of young people with purchase power 1955 1st collection, commissioned by jc pennies mini skirt-street fringe culture

Vivienne Westwood

(British, b. 1941) 1970's married to guy from sex pistols wild west, buffalo collection 82 punk ere; street style mini skirt w/ substructure of 50's bellowing in a short skirt 81 pirate collection, counter culture

John Galliano

(British, b. 1960) British fashion designer who worked for Givenchy and now works for Dior Dior 1997 management, Eventual chief designer Knows history- 19th century design with asymmetry,

Rudy VanderLans

(Dutch=American, b. 1955) Emigré magazine, 1982-2005 Émigré fonts vector mapping: new no more bit mapping

André Courrèges

(French, b. 1923) Trained in engineering then fashion 1965 exhibiting conture collection- swim into disco club wear new space age materials, guilted mylar, knit with vinal pop post modern

Vitra

(German, founded 1950), furniture maker Signature designers for prototypes Ralph- high modern office chairs and sculpture chairs Buildings to campus by signature designers: frank gary museum

E. F. Schumacher

(German-British, 1911-1977), Small is Beautiful (1973) Germany in britian as alien during war Britian used him for their own economic plan Cleaner coal or nuclear power economy Economics as if people mattered World traveler

Studio Alchymia

(Italian, 1979-early 1980s) "Aims of Il Nuovo Design (The New Design): 1. Putting behind the myth of the 'unity' of a project and concentrating on a free discontinuity of parts with respect to the whole. 2. The search for a new linguistic 'expressive quality as a possible solution to the enigma of design and as a possible new meaning. 3. Recycling all possible idioms now in circulation within the experience of our lives. • Anywhere is history, mixed together 4. Recuperating decoration and color as signs of freedom and nobility of creative invention. 5. Going beyond ergonomic limits and concentrating on an affective relationship between man and his things." —Andrea Branzi (1981) plastic into marble, messing up classics, fashion, tablewear chairs

Memphis group

(Italian, 1981-1988) name from home of elvis and capital of lower Egypt and bob Dylan song young designers- 1940's babies international post modern crit. of design in a boxing ring with japannese culture

Zuzana Licko

(Slovak-American, b. 1961) Emigré magazine, 1982-2005 Émigré fonts: http://www.emigre.com/index.php vector mapping new no more bit mapping

Wolfgang Weingart

(Swiss, b. 1941) Swiss german Bausil school Brings back collage Beyond classic swiss

Consumers Union

(United States, founded 1936) Consumer Reports (1936+) middle of depression a non-profit organization best known as the publisher of Consumer Reports, based in the United States. Its mission is to "test products, inform the public, and protect consumers."

Nintendo

1889 founded as a playing card company 1980 ships Watch & Game LCD hand helds 1983 ships Famicom Rejected in US 1985 ships Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Redesigned famicom; like loading a vcr at the time to have a more toy like feel Chips of game to move to next levels, had to go thru nintendo 1989 ships Gameboy 1st hand held game device 1991 ships SNES 1996 ships Nintendo 64

Erector set (1911)

1911 by AC Gilbert 1st national advertising campaign for toys part of American culture successful until the 60's required nuts and bolts

Push Pin Studios

1954-1974 Use of "clip art' Bob Dylan poster

Tennis for Two

1958): Created by American physicist William Higinbotham. Ballistic missiles technology inspired tennis

Shigeru Miyamoto

1970-75 enrolled in the Kanazawa College of Art, degree in Industrial Design 1977 hired by Nintendo as "staff artist" yo redesign casings Noted for creating the following: Donkey Kong, Mario & Luigi, Ice Climbers, Kid Icarus, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Animal Crossing, Pikmin

Atari (1972)

1972 Estabilshed by Bushnell and Ted Dabney drug and alcoholic culture pre selling to warner 1975 Release Pong home console 1977 releases Atari 2600 most successful 1978 making 128 million in sales sell to time warner to build conceal that can change games game maker wanted better pay, Atari said no pong, combat, tanker, missile compand, ect. 1984 goes bankrupt, broken up into 3 companies and sold off

Sony

1986 contracted by Nintendo to create CD peripheral for SNES 1991 partnership dissolved w/ Nintendo Didn't want to throw away all their research 1993 Sony Computer Entertainment formed 1994 Playstation introduced (1st console to 100 million mark) 2000 PS2 - 100 million in 5 years (fastest) Dominate market for some time: 2005 PSP, 2006 PS3

Will Wright

:1960 born 1976-1981 3 different colleges, no degree 1989 SimCity 1990 SimEarth 2000 The Sims (highest selling PC series of all time, over 100 million) gender neutral, sells like hot cakes 2008 Spore

Katherine and Michael McCoy

Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1971-1995 Graphic plus product Post modern crit used in school

Lego

Denmark by a carpenter named Christians Self locking blocks patens 80's doing star wars and such interest in them as a way to make art

R. Buckminster Fuller

Dymaxion House; Prefab house made out of metal (market didn't like it) Dymaxion Car; Streamline automobile, 3 wheel, fuel efficient, roomy, but crashed and killed driver, Dymaxion Bathroom; Prefrab bathroom, plumber union didn't approve would cause unemployment, Geodesic Dome: Created the dome at school. Biggest success of live. Shape with minimal material Build in black mountain, and for gardens, ect., World Geo-GraphicAtlas (with Herbert Bayer, for Container Corporation of America, 1953) Comparative data in atlas- superb graphics compared to previous atlases Greatest years in last 30 years of live Experimenter Began teaching ing the 50's in Chicago and black mountain

Spikerman

Graphic Design, 1970s-1990s meta type font, univers, helvectiva swiss type london underground type

Alessi

Italian metal kitchenware company associated with the notion of "designer" objects Giovanni Alessi, founder Alberto Alessi, grandson, general manager for marketing, communications, and design management, since 1978

Biomimicry

Janine Benyus, (American, b. 1958), Biomimicry (1997)—from biomimicry of forms to biomimicry of processes and systems 1997 looking at imitating forms in nature i.e. Velcro

Fashion Design, 1960s-1990s

London 60's beetles teady bear look- tight pants, exaggerated tailoring WWII era Aviator/ bomber jacket form War became street fashion Jean went from work pants to street fashion (james dean)

Universal Design/Inclusive Design

Not design for special needs, but design that works for people of all ages and abilities Needs of everyone: adjustable sink, adjustsable drinking foutain Center for Universal Design, North Carolina State University

Pop Culture in the U.S. and Britain, 1950s and '60s

Shifts in size, material, context as critiques of consumer culture american pop art staring coming to Britain britain was becoming more modern collage technique shift in size, scale, material, and context

Good Grips utensils and tools

Universal Design, OXO

Pop influences on furniture and product design

approach throughout culture what modernism is all about currently in late phase of modernism

Wham-O

aurther mellon sling shot to shot birds 1948 founded by USC grads, Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin First product - The Wrist-Rocket Slingsho

Twiggy

classic model: first prominent teenage model active shots with energy

Nolan Bushnell (1943)

computer space dublicate of space boy changed to atari 1972 founds Atari with Ted Dabney 1977 Buys Pizza Time Theater from Warner and starts Chuck E. Cheese sells to time warner to build conceal that can change games 1984 goes bankrupt, broken up into 3 companies and sold off leaves Atari and chuck E. cheese

The Hannover Principles

should be seen as a living document committed to transformation and growth in the understanding of our interdependence with nature, so that they may adapt as our knowledge of the world evolves. Developed by William McDonough, for 2000 World's Fair: "Humanity, Nature, and Technology" [first published 1992]

Bruce Mau

the Institute without Boundaries, Massive Change (London/New York, 2004) traveling exhibit information designer that makes ideas understandable massive change is not about world of the design, about the design of the world