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 -- Vorsprung durch Technik: Michael Breuer’s B33
Design Essentials: are you sitting comfortably? - for iPod/iPhone
11 years ago
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 potential of design to change the world. One school, modernism, laid the foundation for machine-inspired design.
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.
