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Industrial Revolution
The change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. -
Michael Thonet
A skilled craftsman, he unravelled the complicated technical properties of wood, explored the limitations of its flexibility and developed a new body of desing whose appeal extended beyond mere novelty. He made curving wood products. -
Henry Cole
English public servant, art patron, and educator who is significant in the history of industrial design for his recognition of the importance of combining art and industry. -
Christopher Dresser
Probably has the greatest claim to be called the world's first industrial designer. From the late 1850's he designed functional, yet beautiful objects across a whole range of domestic items, including wallpaper, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, carpets, glass and furniture. -
Society of arts and design award
Henry was given the award because of his Summerly´s tea service, designed by him and manufactured by Minton´s pottery works. -
Journal of design and manufactures
Was published in London, edited by Henry Cole and Richard Redgrave. Focusing on decorative and applied arts, the journal aimed to improve British industrial design and educate public taste. -
The Great Exhibition
Was the first international exhibition of manufactured products. It was organised by Henry Cole and Prince Albert, and held in a purpose-built Crystal Palace in Hyde Park. -
South Kensington Museum
A museum of decorative arts and design. The Museum was initially based at Marlborough House on the Mall in London and it was only in 1857 that it opened on its current site and was named the South Kensington Museum (being re-named the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1899). -
National Art Training School
The Royal College of Art started life in 1837 as the Government School of Design. Following the Great Exhibition of 1851, this relatively small-scale operation was radically transformed to accommodate art as well as design, leading the institution to be rechristened the National Art Training School at its new home in South Kensington. -
Chair No. 14
Made by 6 pieces. -
William Morris
Was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. -
Arts and crafts movement
It was a movement born of ideals. It grew out of a concern for the effects of industrialisation: on design, on traditional skills and on the lives of ordinary people. In response, it established a new set of principles for living and working. It advocated the reform of art at every level and across a broad social spectrum, and it turned the home into a work of art. -
Modernismo
In the arts, a radical break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a period of experimentation. Important people in Modernismo: Antoni Gaudi. -
Walter Dorwin Teague
industrial designer who pioneered in the establishment of industrial design as a profession in the United States. After study at the Art Students League of New York (1903–07) and four years with an advertising agency, Teague became a successful free-lance advertising designer. Increasingly, his clients sought his advice for product design, and in 1926 he formed an office devoted exclusively to industrial design, including products, exhibits, corporate graphics, and interiors. -
Art Nouveau
Ornamental style of art that flourished throughout Europe and the United States. Art Nouveau is characterized by its use of a long, sinuous, organic line and was employed most often in architecture, interior design, jewelry and glass design, posters, and illustration. It was a deliberate attempt to create a new style, free of the imitative historicism that dominated much of 19th-century art and design. Important people in Art Nouveau: Charles Mackintosh, Emile Gallé. -
Norman Bel Geddes
American theatrical designer whose clean, functional decors contributed substantially to the trend away from naturalism in 20th-century stage design. As an important industrial designer, he helped popularize “streamlining” as a distinct modern style. -
Raymond Loewy
French-born American industrial designer who, through his accomplishments in product design beginning in the 1930s, helped to establish industrial design as a profession. -
Harold Van Doren
Harold L. Van Doren was one of the most groundbreaking designers of the early 20th century. Harold L. Van Doren was a prolific industrial designer and created numerous iconic streamlined design items including toys, radios, fans, etc. -
Clara Porset
Was a Cuban-born interior designer. From 1963 until her death, she worked in Mexico, where she is considered a pioneer in furniture design. -
Jugendstil
Artistic style that arose in Germany about the mid-1890s and continued through the first decade of the 20th century, which featured Art Nouveau designs. Two phases can be discerned in Jugendstil: an early one, before 1900, that is mainly floral in character, rooted in English Art Nouveau and Japanese applied arts and prints; and a later, more abstract phase, growing out of the Viennese work of the Belgian-born architect and designer Henry van de Velde. -
Sezessionstil
A term adopted by several groups of artists in Germany who seceded from the traditional conservative academies to show their work; the most celebrated was the one founded in Vienna in 1897, and included the artist Gustav Klimt and the architects Joseph Olbrich and Otto Wagner, also Agust Endell and Peter Beherens. -
Alvar Aalto
Finnish architect, city planner, and furniture designer whose international reputation rests on a distinctive blend of modernist refinement, indigenous materials, and personal expression in form and detail. -
Henry Dreyfuss
U.S. industrial designer noted for the number and variety of his pioneering designs for modern products. -
Russel Wright
Was an American Industrial designer during the 20th century. Beginning in the late 1920s through the 1960s, Russel Wright created a succession of artistically distinctive and commercially successful items that helped bring modern design to the general public. -
Eva Zeisel
Hungarian-born American industrial designer known for her work with ceramics, primarily from the period after she migrated to the United States. Her forms are often abstractions of the natural world and human relationships. -
George Nelson
A fellowship enabled him to study at the American Academy in Rome from 1932 to 1934. In Europe, he became acquainted with the major architectural works and leading protagonists of modernism. -
Futurism
Futurism, early 20th-century artistic movement centred in Italy that emphasized the dynamism, speed, energy, and power of the machine and the vitality, change, and restlessness of modern life. During the second decade of the 20th century, the movement’s influence radiated outward across most of Europe, most significantly to the Russian avant-garde. The most-significant results of the movement were in the visual arts and poetry. -
Eero Saarinen
Finnish-born American architect who was one of the leaders in a trend toward exploration and experiment in American architectural design during the 1950s. -
Expressionism
Expressionism, artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person. The artist accomplishes this aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements. -
Constructivism
Constructivism was the last and most influential modern art movement to flourish in Russia in the 20th century. It borrowed ideas from Cubism, Suprematism and Futurism, but at its heart was an entirely new approach to making objects, one which sought to abolish the traditional artistic concern with composition, and replace it with 'construction.' Constructivism called for a careful technical analysis of modern materials, serving the ends of a modern, Communist society. -
Neoplasticism
Neo-Plasticism, articulated most completely by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, relied on the most basic elements of painting - color, line, and form - to convey universal and absolute truths. Mondrian advocated for the use of austere geometry and color to create asymmetrical but balanced compositions that conveyed the harmony underlying reality. Neo-Plasticism strove to transform society by changing the way people saw and experienced their environment. -
Bauhaus
Bauhaus, school of design, architecture, and applied arts that existed in Germany from 1919 to 1933. The Bauhaus was founded by the architect Walter Gropius. By training students equally in art and in technically expert craftsmanship, the Bauhaus sought to end the schism between the two. -
Art Deco
Movement in the decorative arts and architecture that originated in the 1920s and developed into a major style in western Europe and the United States during the 1930s. Its name was derived from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, held in Paris in 1925, where the style was first exhibited. The distinguishing features of the style are simple, clean shapes, often with a “streamlined” look; ornament that is geometric or stylized from representational forms. -
Italian Design
Italian design refers to all forms of design in Italy, including interior design, urban design, fashion design and architectural design. Italy is recognized as being a worldwide trendsetter and leader in design. -
Mexican Design
Industrial design in Mexico start developing with several new design in different contests. Some universities began to put this career. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
POP Design
Pop design, based in Britain, America and Italy c.1955– 70, led reaction to the Modernist functionalism that had dominated western architecture and design for the previous quarter century. -
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References
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bauhaus
https://www.britannica.com/art/Art-Deco
https://www.britannica.com/art/Expressionism
http://www.theartstory.org/movement-constructivism.htm
http://www.theartstory.org/movement-neo-plasticism.htm
https://www.britannica.com/art/Futurism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russel_Wright -
References
http://www.moderndesign.org/2009/04/harold-l-van-doren-industrial-design.html
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Dorwin-Teague
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Norman-Bel-Geddes
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Raymond-Loewy
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Dreyfuss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Zeisel -
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_design
https://miscursos.tec.mx/bbcswebdav/pid-7545544-dt-content-rid-228314_1/courses/GDA.DL2027.1.1611.564/pop_design.pdf
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eero-Saarinen
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alvar-Aalto
https://www.vitra.com/en-ch/corporation/designer/details/george-nelson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Porset
