Design Essentials: are you sitting comfortably? - for iPod/iPhone Podcast
1) Chairs – are you sitting comfortably?
What makes a good chair? Theo Zamenopoulos considers the factors that produce good design while sitting in his favourite place.
2) Transcript -- Chairs – are you sitting comfortably?
What makes a good chair? Theo Zamenopoulos considers the factors that produce good design while sitting in his favourite place.
3) No 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 i...Show More
4) Transcript -- No 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 i...Show More
5) Vorsprung 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 pot...Show More
6) Transcript -- Vorsprung 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 pot...Show More
7) Protest, 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...Show More
Protest, provocation and social responsibility: Gerrit Rietveld’s Crate Chair
02:43 | Aug 26th, 2014
8) Transcript -- Protest, 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...Show More
9) Semantics 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 ...Show More
10) Transcript -- Semantics 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 ...Show More
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