Chapter 35 - Product Design

Question 1

Function

Answer 1

What does it do and how does it work?

Question 2

Form

Answer 2

3D, describes the external shape

Question 3

Materials/construction

Answer 3

What’s it made from, how and why?

Question 4

Visual asthetics

Answer 4

Is it attractive, why and what makes it so?

Question 5

Suitability of design

Answer 5

Does it do what it’s designed to do? If so, why or why not?

Question 6

Quality

Answer 6

How well is it built, what materials are used?

Question 7

Ergonomics

Answer 7

The relationship between people and the products they use

Question 8

Bauhaus

Answer 8

Founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 as a new type of art academy. Noted for its use of techniques and materials associated with industrial production. Produced products for the ‘common man’

Question 9

Banal design

Answer 9

Critical term for things that are over-designed, coined by the product designer and architect Alessandro Mendini to bring awareness of the industrial design of mundane objects and to stylize the trivial as high culture

Question 10

Conceptualization

Answer 10

An analytical and creative process through which a solution to a task is developed

Question 11

Prototype

Answer 11

a test model

Question 12

Redesign

Answer 12

Updating the design of existing products

Question 13

Outline the steps of the design process

Answer 13

1. Pre-production and concept
2. Design
3. Prototype
4. Implementation
5. Redesign

Question 14

Name the chair, the artist and give brief info

Answer 14

Panton’s Chair by Verner Panton (1960)

• First chair to be made of moulded plastic

Question 15

Name the chair and give brief info

Answer 15

Model 3107

• Most copied chair

Question 16

Name the chair, the artist and give brief info

Answer 16

RAR Rocking Chair by Charles Eames (1948)

• Designed for a competition run by the NY Museum of Modern Art

Question 17

Name the chair, the artist and give brief info

Answer 17

Tulip Chair by Ero Saaineen (1955)

• Named after the flower

Question 18

Name the chair, the artist and give brief info

Answer 18

Diamond Chair by Harry Berttoia (1952)

• Claimed it was made of air

Question 19

Name the chair, the artist and give brief info

Answer 19

Barcelona Chair by Mies Van der Rohe (1929)

• Inspired by modernism and the folding chairs of Ancient Eygpt
• Chrome, steel and leather cushions
• Originally pigskin
• Designed for Spanish royalty to oversee the opening ceremony of the International Exhibition of 1929

Question 20

Name the chair, the artist and give brief info

Answer 20

The Brno Chair by Mies Van der Rohe and Reich (1930)

• Cantilever

Question 21

Name the chair, the artist and give brief info

Answer 21

The Egg Chair by Arne Jacobson (1958)

• Designed for the Radisson SAS Hotel in Copenhaguen

Question 22

Name the chair, the artist and give brief info

Answer 22

Louis Ghost Chair by Philippe Stark (2002)

• Inspired by Louis XV’s chair/throne

Question 23

Name the chair, the artist and give brief info

Answer 23

Eames Lounge Chair by Charles and Ray Eames (1956)

• Part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art NY

Question 24

When was Coca Cola’s iconic contour bottle first approved for patent?

Answer 24

November 1915

Question 25

What was the first ever commercial product to be featured on the cover of TIME Magazine?

Answer 25

Coca Cola

Question 26

What did Coca Cola say they were looking for in the competition to design a new bottle?

Answer 26

“a bottle so distinct that you would recognise it by feel in the dark or lying broken on the ground”