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What is Design?

Design 200: Introduction to Design

Department of Design The Ohio State University

Etymology & Grammar


Comes from Italian word disegno: drafting or drawing of
a work; or the idea at the root of a work.

A noun and a verb.


Design is to design a design to produce a design.

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According to the OSU Department of Design


Design is a purposeful, systematic,
and creative activity.

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Fine Art vs. Design


The primary motivation in:

Art is usually oneself. Design is usually others.

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Overview of Design History & Contributions

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The Real Beginnings


Stone tools created 2 million years B.C.

chopper

hand axe

scraper
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needle

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Industrial Revolution
1765-1880 A shift from craft labor to mass production; workshops to
factories.

Mass production and interchangeable parts allowed


design standardization.

Steam engine. Mass production & Mass marketing.


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The Steam Engine


James Watt 1765 England Powered by steam: expanding and cooling water within a
cylinder drove a piston up and down.

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Mass Production
Cheap products, mass produced quickly. Poor quality. Many different styles: classical mythology, Baroque,
Gothic, Romanesque, Renaissance. were interchangeable.

Lots of Ornamentation: machined lathed/band saw parts

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Steam Engine?
Classical faade. Excessive Ornamentation

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Toilet?
Reference to classical
mythology Chimaera, part lion.

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Telephone?
1888 on top 1914 on bottom

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New Manufacturing Technologies


Bent Beechwood Thonet, 1859
Chair No. 14 Rocker

Thonet, 1860

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Mass Marketing
Josiah Wedgewoods Pottery factory. Used old energy sources: horses, moving water; not
steam; 1769.

First to market to the middle class; pioneer of mass

marketing; earthenware that was affordable, aesthetically pleasing, could take sudden changes in temperature; quick to produce.

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Singer Sewing Machines


1850- Isaac Merritt Singer designs 1855- Singer becomes the world's
first in-line shuttle sewing machine. largest sewing company. Singer begins overseas expansion, starting in Paris, France, making Singer the worlds first international company.

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Installment Payments
1856- Edward Clark, working for the Singer
Manufacturing Co., originates the hire-purchase plan, the prototype for all installment selling or time payment purchases.

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World Fairs or Exhibitions


They provided an International marketplace, International competition, and exhibited the latest advancements in technology.

London, 1851 Paris, 1889


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The Road to Modernism

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Changing Aesthetics
Driven largely by new technologies in manufacturing and
materials.

Steam bending wood Steel Glass Curvilinear vs. Rectilinear.


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Curvilinear vs. Rectilinear


C. R. Mackintosh French Furniture Company

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Curvilinear vs. Rectilinear


Henery van de Velde Frank Lloyd Wright

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Frank Lloyd Wright


Guggenheim Museum New York, 1956

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Form follows function.


Louis Sullivan Chicago

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Simplication & Abstraction

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Perspective & Rationale

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Corporate Identity
Peter Behrens AEG - Electrical Products Manufacturer

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The Bauhaus
Founded in 1919 by
Walter Gropius

Weimar, Dessau, Berlin Closed in 1933 due to

the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany.

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Constructivism
Propaganda & Social Messages

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Streamlining
Transportation, Future Forms, & Marketing

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Evolution of a Chair

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Red & Blue Chair


Gerrit Reitveld, 1918
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Chair
Marcel Breuer, 1921
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Wassily Chair
Marcel Breuer, 1925
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Barcelona Chair
Mies van der Rohe, 1929
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Grand Comfort Lounge


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Lounge Chair Wood


Charles and Ray Eames, 1945
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RAR Rocker
Charles and Ray Eames, 1948
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Lounge Chair &


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Tulip Chair
Eero Saarinen, 1956
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Panton Chair
Verner Panton, 1959
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That is about all we have time for.


Without taking another two hours to cover Scandinavien, Minimalism, Post Modernism, Deconstructivism...

Design 200: Introduction to Design

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