Design Essentials: are you sitting comfortably? - for iPod/iPhone
By The Open University
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Description
Theo Zamenopoulos, of the OU design faculty, offers a glimpse into the ideological and historical context of design ideas and principles. With Emma Curtis, curator of the Design Museum, and Nathaniel Hepburn, curator of the Mascalls Art Gallery, Theo looks at the key ideas that emerged as the driving force behind design using specific examples from the history of chair design. This material forms part of The Open University course T217 Design Essentials.
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| 1 | VideoChairs – are you sitting comfortably? | What makes a good chair? Theo Zamenopoulos considers the factors that produce good design while sitting in his favourite place. | 26 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Chairs – are you sitting comfortably? | Transcript -- What makes a good chair? Theo Zamenopoulos considers the factors that produce good design while sitting in his favourite place. | 26 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoNo chair is an island | No design is an island, entire in itself, they are all part of an ongoing conversation about what is good design Here Theo Zamenopoulos gives some examples of how design ideas and principles are not isolated from each other, but are highly interconnecte | 26 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- No chair is an island | Transcript -- No design is an island, entire in itself, they are all part of an ongoing conversation about what is good design Here Theo Zamenopoulos gives some examples of how design ideas and principles are not isolated from each other, but are highly | 26 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoVorsprung durch Technik: Michael Breuer’s B33 | Emma Curtis, of the Design Museum, introduces the historical and ideological context of modernism in design. At the beginning of the 20th century new technology led to a growing optimism about the potential of design to change the world. One school, mod | 26 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Vorsprung durch Technik: Michael Breuer’s B33 | Transcript -- Emma Curtis, of the Design Museum, introduces the historical and ideological context of modernism in design. At the beginning of the 20th century new technology led to a growing optimism about the potential of design to change the world. O | 26 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoProtest, provocation and social responsibility: Gerrit Rietveld’s Crate Chair | Designs don’t just have utilitarian or aesthetic functions they can also have economic, social and political ones. Here Emma Curtis, of the Design Museum, discusses examples of designs that are driven by social responsibility. | 26 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Protest, provocation and social responsibility: Gerrit Rietveld’s Crate Chair | Transcript -- Designs don’t just have utilitarian or aesthetic functions they can also have economic, social and political ones. Here Emma Curtis, of the Design Museum, discusses examples of designs that are driven by social responsibility. | 26 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoSemantics and form: Tom Dixon’s Crown Chair | By the end of the 60s, modernist principles came under severe criticism. One aspect of this criticism of modernism was the narrow interpretation of ‘what is function’. Here the OU’s Theo Zamenopoulos and Emma Curtis, of the Design Museum, discusse | 26 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Semantics and form: Tom Dixon’s Crown Chair | Transcript -- By the end of the 60s, modernist principles came under severe criticism. One aspect of this criticism of modernism was the narrow interpretation of ‘what is function’. Here the OU’s Theo Zamenopoulos and Emma Curtis, of the Design Mu | 26 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoProcess-driven design: Konstantin Grcic’s Myto Chair | Theo Zamenopoulos discusses design where the process of designing has been instrumental for the design output. According to this perspective, the quality of designs depends not only on the designer’s vision about the design output but also the process | 22 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Process-driven design: Konstantin Grcic’s Myto Chair | Transcript -- Theo Zamenopoulos discusses design where the process of designing has been instrumental for the design output. According to this perspective, the quality of designs depends not only on the designer’s vision about the design output but al | 22 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoNature-inspired design: Frank Gehry’s Cross Check Chair | Nature has always been an inspiration for designers, both for its beautiful forms but also for the ways it solves problems. Here Emma Curtis, of the Design Museum, introduces the idea of using organic or nature-inspired forms in design. | 22 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Nature-inspired design: Frank Gehry’s Cross Check Chair | Transcript -- Nature has always been an inspiration for designers, both for its beautiful forms but also for the ways it solves problems. Here Emma Curtis, of the Design Museum, introduces the idea of using organic or nature-inspired forms in design. | 22 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | VideoLess is more: Jasper Morrison’s Air-Chair | Is it possible to ‘over-design’ – to design beyond the functional requirements of a design? Here Emma Curtis, of the Design Museum, introduces a very influential design principle, 'less is more', otherwise known as minimalism. | 22 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Less is more: Jasper Morrison’s Air-Chair | Transcript -- Is it possible to ‘over-design’ – to design beyond the functional requirements of a design? Here Emma Curtis, of the Design Museum, introduces a very influential design principle, 'less is more', otherwise known as minimalism. | 22 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | VideoForm follows function: Jerszy Seymour's PlayStation chair | Theo Zamenopoulos introduces arguably one of the most influential but also controversial principles in design – that idea that ‘form follows function’ – by looking at Jerszy Seymour's PlayStation chair. | 22 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Form follows function: Jerszy Seymour's PlayStation chair | Transcript -- Theo Zamenopoulos introduces arguably one of the most influential but also controversial principles in design – that idea that ‘form follows function’ – by looking at Jerszy Seymour's PlayStation chair. | 22 8 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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