Tuesday, 17 May 2011

Design Classics Notes

Campbells Soup

Turned into an icon by Andy Warhol, typography and crest all provide iconic characteristics all highlighted in his prints.

Swiss Army Knife

Never Changed, Swiss engineering, made to last.

Bedside Lamp

Organic Natural look, Tiffany lamp, fascination of glass and reflective qualities that the light gives off.

Rennie Macintosh Chair

Geometric, formal look. Little has changed.

Coco Channel No 5 Perfume

Fashion Designer, sold first ever mass produced distinctive perfume. Still here today.

Function Follows Form

Purpose of the object is priority – mass produced in 1920, less beautiful than the tiffany lamp. Bauhaus school. Designed for industrial production.

Leica

Simplified photography, design widely used by other manufacturers. Oskar Barnack. Revolutionary,.

Modernistic Wassily Chair – Marcel Breuer

Bauhaus Design, simple nicely styled objects

London Underground Map

Henry Beck Created this linked to elictracal diagrams.

VW Beatle

Ferdinand Porsche 1938, family car.

Tuppaware

Earl S Tuppa invented 1946, plastic product which keeps things neat,tidy and fresh.

Mini Morris

1959, low budget & cheap car. Baby Boomers saw it great as a first car.

Robin Day – pollyprop staking chair 1963

British designer. Infancy and functional. Plastic is being massively produced. 4000 were knocked out a week.

Dyson Vacuum

Invented by James Dyson, british didn’t want to engage with this.

Lemon Squeezer

The Juicy Salif – Phillip Stark

Apple Mac

Jonathan Ive- Great and Functional Design

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