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Department of Design The Ohio State University
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Industrial Revolution
1765-1880 A shift from craft labor to mass production; workshops to
factories.
Mass Production
Cheap products, mass produced quickly. Poor quality. Many different styles: classical mythology, Baroque,
Gothic, Romanesque, Renaissance. were interchangeable.
Steam Engine?
Classical faade. Excessive Ornamentation
Toilet?
Reference to classical
mythology Chimaera, part lion.
Telephone?
1888 on top 1914 on bottom
Thonet, 1860
Mass Marketing
Josiah Wedgewoods Pottery factory. Used old energy sources: horses, moving water; not
steam; 1769.
marketing; earthenware that was affordable, aesthetically pleasing, could take sudden changes in temperature; quick to produce.
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.
Changing Aesthetics
Driven largely by new technologies in manufacturing and
materials.
Corporate Identity
Peter Behrens AEG - Electrical Products Manufacturer
The Bauhaus
Founded in 1919 by
Walter Gropius
Constructivism
Propaganda & Social Messages
Streamlining
Transportation, Future Forms, & Marketing
Evolution of a Chair
Chair
Marcel Breuer, 1921
Design 200: Introduction to Design Department of Design The Ohio State University
Wassily Chair
Marcel Breuer, 1925
Design 200: Introduction to Design Department of Design The Ohio State University
Barcelona Chair
Mies van der Rohe, 1929
Design 200: Introduction to Design Department of Design The Ohio State University
RAR Rocker
Charles and Ray Eames, 1948
Design 200: Introduction to Design Department of Design The Ohio State University
Tulip Chair
Eero Saarinen, 1956
Design 200: Introduction to Design Department of Design The Ohio State University
Panton Chair
Verner Panton, 1959
Design 200: Introduction to Design Department of Design The Ohio State University