Wednesday 22 December 2010
Monday 13 December 2010
Thursday 9 December 2010
Globalisation and Corporate Identity
Branding - The brand as the core meaning the modern corporation'
Coca cloa everywhere
Sunlight soap - lever brothers
Endorsement,product placement
IBM started with adding machines and then went into computers
Ford cars not as good at advertiosing
General Motors were better at brand and marketing
Advertising= no cars. real life= nose to tail
Coca cloa everywhere
Sunlight soap - lever brothers
Endorsement,product placement
IBM started with adding machines and then went into computers
Ford cars not as good at advertiosing
General Motors were better at brand and marketing
Advertising= no cars. real life= nose to tail
Industrial Visit
Working in groups, prepare a 15 minute powerpoint presentation about a chosen product manufacturer. You are to visit to a company or organisation. The subject matter of the presentation is your choice, but the material must be compiled in such a way as to inform the reader of as many aspects of the company and its products as possible.
It must cover some elements of production theory or materials and processes and have relevance to design.
E.G
Boat builder
injection Moulding factory
Designer craftsman/ small manufacturing company
Mountain Bike manufacture
Due 24th March
It must cover some elements of production theory or materials and processes and have relevance to design.
E.G
Boat builder
injection Moulding factory
Designer craftsman/ small manufacturing company
Mountain Bike manufacture
Due 24th March
Marc Newson
- 1986, 88 lockheed lounge
-Embryo Chair 1988
-Fibreglass Felt Chair 1989
-Nimrod Chair 2003
-Komed Chair 1996
-Gloun Chair 1993
-Mini Event Horizon 1993 (black hole)
-Orgone Lounge
-Sine Chair 1988
-Sine Table 1988
-TV chair/table 1993
-Gello Table 1994
-Super Guppy Lamp 1987
-Diode Lamp 2003
-Tourbillon 2000 (watch)
-Seaslug Watch
-Large and small pod watches 1986-87 (Planetarium)
-Megapode Watch
-MAnatee 2000 (watch0
-Stavros bottle opener 1997
-Ricard Carafe 1996
-Hook 1997
-021C (concept sar)
-Kelvin 40 Concept Jet
-Ceramic Cups 2004
-Glasses 1998
-Zvezdochka Trainer 2004
-Bucky Chair
-Embryo Chair 1988
-Fibreglass Felt Chair 1989
-Nimrod Chair 2003
-Komed Chair 1996
-Gloun Chair 1993
-Mini Event Horizon 1993 (black hole)
-Orgone Lounge
-Sine Chair 1988
-Sine Table 1988
-TV chair/table 1993
-Gello Table 1994
-Super Guppy Lamp 1987
-Diode Lamp 2003
-Tourbillon 2000 (watch)
-Seaslug Watch
-Large and small pod watches 1986-87 (Planetarium)
-Megapode Watch
-MAnatee 2000 (watch0
-Stavros bottle opener 1997
-Ricard Carafe 1996
-Hook 1997
-021C (concept sar)
-Kelvin 40 Concept Jet
-Ceramic Cups 2004
-Glasses 1998
-Zvezdochka Trainer 2004
-Bucky Chair
Monday 6 December 2010
Notes from Doug
Chessboard:
-contemporary and historical atthe same time.
- Less conventional board
Time Machine modelmakers website - http://www.time-machine.ch/
-contemporary and historical atthe same time.
- Less conventional board
Time Machine modelmakers website - http://www.time-machine.ch/
Coroflot
Coroflot website I have to upload some stuff later on (after Christmas)
http://www.coroflot.com/
http://www.coroflot.com/
Sunday 5 December 2010
Friday 3 December 2010
A Bulb
Design a container that protects the bulb from accidental breakage whilst being an attractive piece of point of sale packaging.
-75% of the product must remain clearly visible after the product is packaged.
-the piece of packaging should be made from the givencardboard only. No other fixings or materials are permitted.
-Attention should be given to opening and closing the container, and the effective and innovative use of packaging material.
Work Requirements
-Packaging for testing
-presentation board and development work
Due 14th December
-75% of the product must remain clearly visible after the product is packaged.
-the piece of packaging should be made from the givencardboard only. No other fixings or materials are permitted.
-Attention should be given to opening and closing the container, and the effective and innovative use of packaging material.
Work Requirements
-Packaging for testing
-presentation board and development work
Due 14th December
Art Deco Part deux: Streamlining
Streamlining Design: From Train to Toaster
Stutz with Ra emblem
Art Deco is very eclectic.
art deco provided escapism
30's was economic depression
Metropolis (1927)
How did streamlining become a prominent characteristic of Art Deco?
How does one define it?
Designed form offering least resistance to fluidflow. To make more efficient. (save time and energy)
What characterises streamlining?
Streamlined Design.
- dynamic functionalism
- roots in science
-1930s, 2nd world war.
- Solution to economic crisis
- New profession: Industrial design.
Executive of Sears, Roebuck and Co., Raymond Loewy next to coldspot refridgerator, 1934.
Fernand Leger, Les Disques Dans la Ville. French, 1920, Oil on Canvas.
Sir George Cayley, true forms of least resistance 1809.
Navy rigid airship, Los Angeles (1926)
Raymond Loewy, The PrincesssAnne (Designed 1936, launched 1936)
-round edges
-smooth surfaces
-low horizontal profiles
-absorbtion (simplified, shapes blend into each other via curves)
-reductivism (take out ornament)
-compare to Princess Mary, 1934
Constantin Brancusi 'bird in space, bronze, 1943)
-concept of flight in abstracted form
Pullman Car and Manufacturing Company, The city of Salina (1934)
-interior matches the exterior.
Sir Charles Burney, The Burney Streamliner, 1930.
William Stout, The Stout Scarab, 1935.
Raymond Loewy, The automobile of the future, 1938.
Raymond Loewy, Evolution Chart of automobile, 1933.
Raymond Loewy's model streamlined office and studio, 1934.
Cigarette Lighter, For Ronson, Newark, American c1925
Egmont Area and theodore. Brookhart meat slicer. (1940)
Pencil Sharpener
Ken Wicker, Lounge Chair, Chromium Plated Steel.
Hand in at support centre in the squires buiding.
Stutz with Ra emblem
Art Deco is very eclectic.
art deco provided escapism
30's was economic depression
Metropolis (1927)
How did streamlining become a prominent characteristic of Art Deco?
How does one define it?
Designed form offering least resistance to fluidflow. To make more efficient. (save time and energy)
What characterises streamlining?
Streamlined Design.
- dynamic functionalism
- roots in science
-1930s, 2nd world war.
- Solution to economic crisis
- New profession: Industrial design.
Executive of Sears, Roebuck and Co., Raymond Loewy next to coldspot refridgerator, 1934.
Fernand Leger, Les Disques Dans la Ville. French, 1920, Oil on Canvas.
Sir George Cayley, true forms of least resistance 1809.
Navy rigid airship, Los Angeles (1926)
Raymond Loewy, The PrincesssAnne (Designed 1936, launched 1936)
-round edges
-smooth surfaces
-low horizontal profiles
-absorbtion (simplified, shapes blend into each other via curves)
-reductivism (take out ornament)
-compare to Princess Mary, 1934
Constantin Brancusi 'bird in space, bronze, 1943)
-concept of flight in abstracted form
Pullman Car and Manufacturing Company, The city of Salina (1934)
-interior matches the exterior.
Sir Charles Burney, The Burney Streamliner, 1930.
William Stout, The Stout Scarab, 1935.
Raymond Loewy, The automobile of the future, 1938.
Raymond Loewy, Evolution Chart of automobile, 1933.
Raymond Loewy's model streamlined office and studio, 1934.
Cigarette Lighter, For Ronson, Newark, American c1925
Egmont Area and theodore. Brookhart meat slicer. (1940)
Pencil Sharpener
Ken Wicker, Lounge Chair, Chromium Plated Steel.
Hand in at support centre in the squires buiding.
Thursday 2 December 2010
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