Chapter 1- Evolution of Product Design Flashcards
Why do products change overtime?
- Environment
- Refuse, reuse, recycle
- Consumers changing green
- change in quality
- higher price
- Laws to reduce carbon footprint
- Social factors
- Products are designed to fit customers
- new fashions
- seasonal
- styles and colour change
- Political changes (in times of war) affect production
- Products are designed to fit customers
- Materials and Manufacturing
- products that imporve our standard of living
- Mass-production
Art Nouveau
Founded, location Inspired by Products Famous product
Paris, 1895. Based on organic lines, plants, Japanese art. Glass, furniture, fabric, wrought iron work. Tiffany lamps- René Lalique
Modernism
Ergonomic, appropriate materials, little decoration. Charles Rennie Mackintosh- geometric shapes Easier to mass produce than organic shapes
Bauhaus
Founder Date Principle
Germany, school of art and design by Walter Gropius 1919-1933 modern materials, mass production Form should follow function
Art Deco
Type Date Artist Products, design
Interior design 1920-1939, architecture Fashionable/glamorous influenced by others Clarice Cliff- ceramics vase bright and bold
De Stijl Design, colour Founded Principle Inspiration for Chair
Basic shapes, primary colours, geometric lines Founded in Holland by painters, architects Inspiration for a range of furniture and architecture using the essential form and colour Gerrit Rietveld
The Arts and Crafts Movement
Founder, date Inspired by Products
Founded by William Morris- end of 19th century. Use of organic shapes and patterns. Wallpaper, furniture and textiles. Morris was a socialist, firmly against poor working conditions and damage done to the environment by industrialisation. Promoter of quality products, expensive materials, traditional techniques only the rich could afford
Birth of ‘Designer Label’
Growth of youth culture…
- Post war rationing wanted new fashion
- Youth culture had a big impact on the design and fashion
- 1960s, young people fought against traditional lifestyles and behaviours
- Mary Quant mini skirt
- Designers influenced by British and American music industry and hippie movement
- Futeristic designs in 1970 => growing demand for automated products
Post-Modernism…
- Designers etc who didn’t like simple modernistic designs used different techniques to look aesthetically pleasing
- popular among the young
- led fashion
- growing consumer market
Designer labels?
- 1990s change in how people bought products
- design less important
- emphasis on designer
- brought demand for designer products
- Designers are now hidden behind labels
- Alessi
- brand image is now major factor on selling goods
Anthropomorphism
giving human characteristics to an inanimate object. Human impact is softer, more aesthetically pleasing
- remote control
- humanoid
Blobjects
product designed by CAD/CAM reducing style constraints…
- Gherkin in london
- iMac
- Citroen C1
New/Smart Material
Smart materials have properties that react to changes in their environment. This means that one of their properties can be changed by an external condition, such as temperature, light, pressure or electricity. This change is reversible and can be repeated many times.
- Thermochromatic pigment
- High-density modelling foam
Composite material
a bond of 2 or more materials – combining them both together at a ‘macroscopic’ level. It can be used to combine with a reinforcing material and a bonding agent to make the material. A composite material doesn’t do anything special like a smart material, it is just a special material that can be strong for example, but it is not an alloy. With it having 2 or more materials, it makes it better than a single material because both of the materials are linking together – sharing their elements meaning that it is a stronger/ better material for the role in hand.
- Kevlar
- Carbon Firbre
