Design Essentials: are you sitting comfortably? - for iPod/iPhone
The Open University
18 episodes
8 months ago
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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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.
Transcript -- Less is more: Jasper Morrison’s Air-Chair
Design Essentials: are you sitting comfortably? - for iPod/iPhone
11 years ago
Transcript -- Less 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.
Design Essentials: are you sitting comfortably? - for iPod/iPhone
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.
