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Design Essentials: are you sitting comfortably? - for iPod/iPhone The Open University
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 isolated from each other, but are highly interconnected.
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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 isolated from each other, but are highly interconnected.
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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.
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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.
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