Chapter 35 - Product Design Flashcards
Function
What does it do and how does it work?
Form
3D, describes the external shape
Materials/construction
What’s it made from, how and why?
Visual asthetics
Is it attractive, why and what makes it so?
Suitability of design
Does it do what it’s designed to do? If so, why or why not?
Quality
How well is it built, what materials are used?
Ergonomics
The relationship between people and the products they use
Bauhaus
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’
Banal design
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
Conceptualization
An analytical and creative process through which a solution to a task is developed
Prototype
a test model
Redesign
Updating the design of existing products
Outline the steps of the design process
- Pre-production and concept
- Design
- Prototype
- Implementation
- Redesign
Name the chair, the artist and give brief info
Panton’s Chair by Verner Panton (1960)
- First chair to be made of moulded plastic
Name the chair and give brief info
Model 3107
- Most copied chair
Name the chair, the artist and give brief info
RAR Rocking Chair by Charles Eames (1948)
- Designed for a competition run by the NY Museum of Modern Art
Name the chair, the artist and give brief info
Tulip Chair by Ero Saaineen (1955)
- Named after the flower
Name the chair, the artist and give brief info
Diamond Chair by Harry Berttoia (1952)
- Claimed it was made of air
Name the chair, the artist and give brief info
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
Name the chair, the artist and give brief info
The Brno Chair by Mies Van der Rohe and Reich (1930)
- Cantilever
Name the chair, the artist and give brief info
The Egg Chair by Arne Jacobson (1958)
- Designed for the Radisson SAS Hotel in Copenhaguen
Name the chair, the artist and give brief info
Louis Ghost Chair by Philippe Stark (2002)
- Inspired by Louis XV’s chair/throne
Name the chair, the artist and give brief info
Eames Lounge Chair by Charles and Ray Eames (1956)
- Part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art NY
When was Coca Cola’s iconic contour bottle first approved for patent?
November 1915
What was the first ever commercial product to be featured on the cover of TIME Magazine?
Coca Cola
What did Coca Cola say they were looking for in the competition to design a new bottle?
“a bottle so distinct that you would recognise it by feel in the dark or lying broken on the ground”
