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What are ESU’s?

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Eames Storage Units - designed and many. for home or office.

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What parts did Eames favor?

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Prefabricated Industrial parts for home & work designs

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What style did the postwar create?

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International style - increased by art journals,magazines, prizes and intl exhibits.

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What did Saarinen chairs exemplify?

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organic “valley & vessel” forms of organic design (body conforming)

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What was designed in the International style?

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Furniture
Cultural Institutions
Corporate Bldg’s

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How were interiors of the International style?

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Simple with dramatic geometry - interior represented there brand and/or products

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When, where and why did manufacturers display “dream cars” at shows?

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1939 NY Worlds Fair, publicity & way of testing consumer response.

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What did cars become emblems of?

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Conspicuous consumption and personal freedom for middle class

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What expressed luxury cars?

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Elongated lines, wraparound bumpers, long low body, covering back wheels.

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What were characteristics of the new typography?

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Sans seriff, photos instead of illustrations

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When and who introduced tail fins on cars that became so popular in the auto industry during the 1950s?

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Cadillac, 1948 (became rocket-like) by 1959

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By when did styling for obsolescence become big?

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1959 for automobiles

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What caused the postwar housing boom during 1945-1965?

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Rise in birthrate, middle class, dependence on cars, land availability, mass prod.

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What did developers promise to people?

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American dream, “white picket fence” with large living

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When did roadside food restaurants like McDonalds become big?

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1950s

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What became the first enclosed mall that we still see today?

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Southdale Mall, 1956

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When did hotels arise?

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1954, due to people traveling and their interiors portrayed european style luxury.

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What did MOMA think about the new International Style?

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Good design, believing it responsive to human needs + socially responsible (opposed to design for obsolescence)

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Who embraced the machine age advent garde styles and what was this new style called?

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Cultural Inst., affluent individuals, multi.national corps. , known as International Style

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How did the International Style become popular?

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After MOMA’s 1932 catalog + exhibition

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Postwar period saw a rise in commissions with whom?

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Architects + Designers following the Int. Style

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What type of aluminum was developed in the 1950s?

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Lightweight tubular aluminum first used for aircraft seats.

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How did big industries stay in business after the war?

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Started developing for domestic use such as plywood, fiberglass, plastics, etc.

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When was tupperware created? When was it available for sale?

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Created in 1947, sold through catalog and vendors in 1951

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What material became popular for flooring and furniture?

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Vinyl

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What did fashion cater to in the 1960s?

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Trend-counscious youth

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When and why did youth boom occur in industrialized countries?

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Baby boom after war, born 1947, were 13 in 1960.

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Why did companies market to youth?

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Had some income, supported by parents and had ample amount of free time to spend.

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Who is SONY and when did they begin?

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Leader in design of portable TV’s using transistors, 1959

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With electronics, what was Japan good at designing?

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Miniature electronics for portability

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Who and when was the Kikkoman bottle designed?

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6 Japanese college students in 1957

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When did designers and design firms begin to gain recognition

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End of 1950s

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Who was the found of Neue Grafik?

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Mueller-Brockman

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Who was Max Huber and what did he win?

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Influentail designer who won first prize for this competition poster for Monza Motor Race

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What was Anton Stankows a major figure in?

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Corporate graphic design

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What was helvetica originally called?

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Neue Haas Grotesk, developed 1957

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What is scandanavian design?

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Emerged in the 1950s in the Scandinavian countries. It is a design movement characterized by simplicity, minimalism and functionality.

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What as an early symbol of Italian design?

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Vespa scooters, 1946

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What were the ranks of exports in 1951-62?

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  1. Japan @ 379%
  2. Italy @ 259%
  3. W.Germany @ 247%
  4. France @ 86%
  5. Britain @ 29%
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What walls did lofts have?

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Brick

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From 1970s to 2000’s, what were lofts promoted as?

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People with creative lifestyles

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When were the first lofts in Germany built?

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Late 1870s

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When did the German protest against the lofts take place?

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1970s

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What were characteristics of lofts?

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Large spaces, undivided open plans, exposed structures of industrial materials

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When and how did the loft become a living/working space?

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1960s when artists started to illegally occupy abandoned buildings. Became legal in 1971.

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What was preservationism that begun in the 1960s?

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Response to de-industrialization which involved outsourcing + offshoring of manufacturing - decline in manufacturing and rise in service + creative sectors of the economy

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What is new historicism?

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eclectic use of past styles, including pop cultural references-characteristic of postmodernist design

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What is pluralistic attitude?

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Born of postmodern (pluralistic) conditions of production + consumption

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Was postmodernism for mass production?

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No

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What did the postmodern chair for high-end look like?

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18th century style made in colorer material, humorous

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What was the Memphis style?

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Only shown in exhibits + many prototypes, high craftsmanship and intended for high mass production BUT WEREN’T.

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What was the postmodernist style?

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richly symbolic + often eclectic

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What did postmodernist designers do to the grid?

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Departs from the modernist grid for more eccentric layouts

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In postmodernism, Anti-Design values the symbolic function of design

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In postmodernism, Anti-Design values the symbolic function of design

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Who were the archizoom?

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Group of designers who were against modernsit “good design” + star system of industrial design. Showcased concepts unrealized

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How did the anti-design depart from International style “good design”?

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Incorporating brazen references to pop culture

57
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When was anti-design featured in MOMA?

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In 1972, exhibition with Italian design, section devoted to anti-design.

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What is modernist design?

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Characterized by avant-garde opposition to mass culture.

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Two characteristics of postmodern design?

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  1. Designers make reference to commercial culture + media

2. Emphasis on the communicative (symbolic) function of design

60
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When and where did punk emerge?

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1970s in US + Britain

61
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How do deviant subculture styles change?

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Members grow up and become normal, becomes commercialized and trendy.

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When and why did the design world grow dissatisfied with intl style?

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Late 1950s and 60s due to global problems and environmental pollution

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What did Victor Papanek advocate?

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Environmental conservation + addressing needs in developing countries so that people less depend on the investment (ex: fridge)

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What is adhocism?

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Resources ready at hand. Recycled materials (Ex: bottle house)

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Who created the geodesic dome during the postwar development in 1952?

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Buckminster Fuller

66
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What did Buck Fuller design in 1960?

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The U.S. Oavillion @ Expo 67’ (20 story building that housed Creative America)

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When did health food become popular?

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1970s

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During the 2000’s, what was architecture and urban planning known as?

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Sustainable design

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What is the formal characteristics of sustainable design?

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Communicates and forges relationships.

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