History of Industrial Design

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  • John Kay's flying shuttle

    John Kay's flying shuttle

  • Industrial Revolution begins

  • James Hargreaves' spinning jenny patented

    James Hargreaves' spinning jenny patented

  • James Watt's steam engine patented

    James Watt's steam engine patented

  • Michael Thonet is born

    Michael Thonet is born

  • William Morris is born

    William Morris is born

  • Henry Cole is born

    Henry Cole is born

  • National Academy of Design

    National Academy of Design

  • First railroad built in France

    First railroad built in France

  • Michael Thonet starts expirements curving wood

  • Factory Act gets passed by the English Government

  • Michael Thonet patents first method for curving solid beech wood.

  • Period: to

    The Journal of Design and Manufactures

    Edited by Henry Cole and Richard Redgrave

  • The Great Exhibition

    The Great Exhibition

  • Antonio Gaudi was born

    Antonio Gaudi was born

  • Henry Cole founded the Victoria & Albert Museum

    Henry Cole founded the Victoria & Albert Museum

  • Michael Thonet founds Thonet Brothers

    Michael Thonet founds Thonet Brothers

  • Michael Thonet creates chair no. 14

    Michael Thonet creates chair no. 14
    • 6 parts and 6 screws
    • 8 days to make
    • 5 hours in steam
    • 3 minutes to shape by hand
    • 36 chairs in a 1 ^3 seat crate

  • Aesthetic movement

  • William Morris created Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company

    William Morris created Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company

  • Adamo Boari was born

    Adamo Boari was born

  • Toulouse-Lautrec is born

    Toulouse-Lautrec is born

  • Josef Hoffmann is born

    Josef Hoffmann is born

  • Michael Thonet dies

  • Eliel Saarinen was born

    Eliel Saarinen was born

  • Henry Cole dies

  • Antonio Gaudi started building La Sagrada Familia

    Antonio Gaudi started building La Sagrada Familia

  • Walter D Teague is born

    Walter D Teague is born

  • Clara Porset is born

    Clara Porset is born

  • Marcello Nizzoli is born

    Marcello Nizzoli is born

  • Art Nouveau starts

  • Gio-Ponti is born

    Gio-Ponti is born

  • Norman Bel Geddes is born

    Norman Bel Geddes is born

  • Art Nouveau is named

    "L'Art Nouveau" was the name of a shop opened in 1895 in Paris by Samuel Bing

  • Harold Van Doren is born

    Harold Van Doren is born

  • Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
 was born

    Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
 was born

  • William Morris dies

  • Donald Dohner
 was born

    Donald Dohner
 was born

  • Alvar Aalto is born

    Alvar Aalto is born

  • Marcel Breuer is born

    Marcel Breuer is born

  • Walter D Teague studies arts in Art Students League

  • Adamo Boari designs Bellas Artes

    Adamo Boari designs Bellas Artes

  • Henry Dreyfuss is born

    Henry Dreyfuss is born

  • Deutscher Werkbund- The monumental turbine factory constructed for AEG

  • Expressionism begins

  • Carlo Mollino is born

    Carlo Mollino is born
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    German Expressionism

    Characters:
    -Ernst Barlach. (1870-1930): Sculptor, printmaker, dramatist.
    -Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880- 1938): Painter, printmaker, sculptor.
    -Vasily Kandinsky (1886- 1934) Painter, printmaker, watercolorist,
    pioneering theorist of abstraction Expressionism began around 1905 in Germany when a group of German artists led by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner formed an association called Die Brücke (“The Bridge”).

  • Eva Zeisel is born

    Eva Zeisel is born

  • Viktor Schreckengost was born

    Viktor Schreckengost was born

  • Charles Eames is born

    Charles Eames is born

  • Seating machine was built

    Seating machine was built
    It was created by Josef Hoffmann

  • Futurism begins

    Futurism manifesto written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  • Bel Geddes describe smooth flow of air (Streamline)

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    Italian Futurism

    Characters:
    -Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916)
    -Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944) In the Futurist manifesto, they lashed out against cultural tradition and called for the destruction of museums, libraries, and feminism.

  • Eero Saarinen is born

  • Marcello Nizzoli attends the Scuola die Belle Arti in Parma

  • Antonin Matejcek coined the term Expressionism

  • Kubbus chair

    Kubbus chair
    Designed by Josef Hoffmann

  • First Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne

  • Josef Hoffmann designed the “Austrian Pavilions” for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Cologne.

  • World War I kills Franz Marc and Auguste Macke

    Expressionism

  • Bel Geddes Los Angeles Little Theater

  • Neoplasticism begins

  • Van Doren joins Williams College

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    Neoplasticism

    Characters:
    -Piet Mondrian
    -Theo van Doesburg
    -Bart van der Leck Universal art form, stripped of all naturalism and other inessentials, in order to attain the universal truths propounded by the Theosophical movement.
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    Russian Constructivism

    Characters:
    -Vladimir Tatlin
    -Alexander Rodchenko
    -Kazimir Malevich
    -Varvara Stepánova Sought to abolish the traditional artistic concern with composition, and replace it with construction. It was meant to carry out a fundamental analysis of the materials and forms of art. It called for a careful technical analysis of modern materials.

  • Bel Geddes Metropolitan Opera

  • Marcello Nizzoli opened a studio in Milan

    Designed silk scarves featuring patterns in the Art déco style

  • Malevich and Tatlin came toghether at "The Last Futurist exhibition of painting"

    Constructivism

  • Bauhaus school is founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany

    Bauhaus school is founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany
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    Bauhaus 1st Period

    Director: Walter Gropius
    Orientation: Expressionistic (1999-1921) Formalist (Constructivist-Neoplasticist) (1921-1927)
    Place: Weimar
    Vorkurs: J. Itten (1999-1921) and L. Moholy Nagy (1921-1927)

  • Futurism is vanished from Germany marked as degenerate art by fascists

  • Tatlin exhibits "Monument for the Third International" and Constructivism is born

  • Art Deco replaces Art Nouveau

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    VKhUTEMAS 1st Period

    Director: Ravdel. Research & Creative experimentation

  • Alavr Aalto opens architecture office at Jyvaskyla

  • Aalto collaborates with Bjerke for the design of the Congress Hall.

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    Art Deco

  • Period: to

    VKhUTEMAS 2nd Period

    Director: Vladimir Favosrkii. Consolidation of experimentation

  • Club armchair B3 or “Wassily” chair

    Club armchair B3 or “Wassily” chair
    Created by Marcel Breuer

  • Art Deco is officially launched with the Paris exhibition

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    Bauhaus 2nd Period

    Director: Walter Gropius (1919-1927) & Hannes Meyer (1927-1930)
    Orientation: Formalist (Constructivist-Neoplasticist) (1921-1927) and Technical (1927-1930)
    Place: Dessau
    Vorkurs: L. Moholy Nagy (1921-1927) and J. Albers (1927-1933)

  • Walter D Teague forms his executive design office

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    VKhUTEMAS 3rd Period

    Director: P. Novitskii. Technological and industrial teaching

  • Bel Geddes opens industrial design studio

  • Major Werkbund exhibition "Die Wohnung" (The Apartment) by Mies van der Rohe in Stuttgart

  • Walter D Teague worked with Kodak

  • Clara Porset From 1928 to 1931 studies architecture in Paris at Henri Rapin’s atellier takes several course of Art History and aesthetics in several institutions.

  • Deutscher Werkbund "Wohnung und Werkraum" (Home and Workplace), in Breslau

  • Bel Geddes Airliner number 4

  • Henry Dreyfuss won the phone of the future award

  • Bill moves to Zurich to work as a graphic designer

  • Henry Dreyfuss opens the first industrial design office

  • Deutscher Werkbund "Das vorbildliche Serienerzeugnis" (The Ideal Series Product) in Hanover.

  • Alto starts production with bent birch wood.

  • Marcello Nizzoli also worked for Olivetti as a graphic designer from the 1930s

  • Henry Dreyfuss starts working for Bell Laboratories

  • L'Art moderne cadre de la vie contemporaine, was held at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris

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    Bauhaus 3rd Period

    Director: L. Van der Rohe
    Orientation: Architecture
    Place: Berlin
    Vorkurs: J. Albers

  • Deutscher Werkbund "Der billige Gebrauchsgegenstand" (The Inexpensive Object of Utility) in Berlin

  • Van Doren design office with John Gordon Rideout (Toledo Scale Company)

  • George Nelson wins the Prix de Rome in architecture.

  • The Cleveland Institute of Art

    The Cleveland Institute of Art

  • Aalto did the Yirong Municipal Library.

  • Art Deco American World Fair in Chicago features Art Deco

  • Van Doren Air King Products (radio)

  • Deutscher Werkbund is disbanded by the Nazis

  • Henry Dreyfuss designs the flat top refrigerator

  • Rideout and Van Doren’s studio designed a green plastic skyscraper style radio (Air King Products)./ Alvar Aalto founded Artek (Architectural firm).

  • Henry Dreyfuss Model 150 Vacuum cleaner

  • Article on streamlining by Bel Geddes

  • ID Program, Carnegie Institute of Technology

  • Van Doren gasoline pump and fortune magazine

  • Design Laboratory, dependent of the WPA

  • Clara Porset arrives to Mexico

  • Michael van Beuren accepts the design and production of furniture in Acapulco

  • Marcello Nizzoli became head product-design consultant for Olivetti

  • Foundation of the New Bauhaus de Chicago

    Foundation of the New Bauhaus de Chicago
    Closes in 1938

  • Giorgetto Giugaro is born

  • Zeisel lands in New York with her husband Hands

  • Clara porset marries painter Xavier Guerrero develops her appreciation of popular arts and mexican culture, which would serve as a source of inspiration for future works.

  • Walter D Teague does an exposition in the Golden Gate

  • Harold Van Doren and Associates designs de Master Washer (Maytag)

  • Henry Dreyfuss Big Ben Westclocks

  • Bel Geddes New York world fair "Futurama"

  • Van Doren Master Washer

  • Art Deco The American World Fair in New York features Art Deco

  • Van Doren Industrial Design: a practical guide

  • MoMA New York Museum’s “Organic Design in Home Furnishings”

  • Saarinen and Eames took part in the "Organic design in Home Furnishings" competition mounted by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

  • Donald Dohner

  • Bill accepted a professorship at an arts university in Zurich

  • Laboratorios Nacionales de Fomento Industrial (LANFI)

  • George Nelson designed the Storage Wall Shelves.

  • Nelson became the Design Director at Herman Miller.

  • Zeisel gains national notice with the porcelain table service´s first show devoted solely to a female designer.

  • Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
 dies

  • George Nelson made his own firm

  • Eero Saarinen did the Grasshopper chair

  • Rams joins the Wiesbaden School of Art

  • Clara Porset and her husband Xavier Guerrero participate in MoMA New York Museum’s Prize Designs for Modern Furniture

  • Marcello Nizzoli also worked for Olivetti as an architect, designing living quarters for employees from 1948 and, in the 1960s

  • The Marshall Plan begins

  • Rams left the Wiesbaden School of Art to master carpentry with his grandfather

  • Henry Dreyfuss model 500 desktop

  • Bill hosted the “Die gute Form” exhibition

  • Rams returns to the Wiesbaden School of Art

  • Eliel Saarinen died

  • Saarinen took over his father’s practice, running it as Saarinen & Associates

  • Walter D Teague designed interiors for the air force academy Boeing 707 jet airline

  • Eero Sarinen designed the "Saarinen Collection" for Knoll, consisting of several office chairs, one of the first lines in designer office furniture.

  • Walter D Teague wrote Flour for Man´s Bread

  • Giugaro moved to Turin to enroll in Golia design school

  • Talleres de Artesanos Carlos Lazo del Pino de la Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Obras Públicas

  • Henry Dreyfuss round thermostate

  • Bill founded the Ulm School of Design in Germany

  • Rams was hired by Braun as an architect and interior designer

  • Nelson designed the Marshmallow Sofa.

  • Henry Dreyfuss wall mounted telephone

  • Bill is called to work for Junghans

  • Clara Porset participates in the Milan Triennial Exhibition

  • Marcelo Nizzoli "Mirella"

  • Marcelo Nizzoli "Mirella"

  • George Nelson Did Knoll international

  • Henry Dreyfuss push button telephone

  • Giugiaro submitted a trial proposal to the legendary design house of Bertone

  • Escuela de Diseño Industrial UIA (bachillerato técnico).

  • Implementación del Plan de los once Años

  • Crecimiento de educación en artes y humanidades, descentralización de la educación superior

  • Walter D Teague dies

  • Henry Dreyfuss The Measure of Men

  • Bill had control of all Junghans’ design

  • Eero Saarinen dies

  • Marcello Nizzoli "Supernova Julia"

  • Rams became Chief Design Officer at Braun

  • Escuela de Diseño Industrial UIA (Licenciatura) Talleres de Artesanos Carlos Lazo del Pino se transforma en Escuela de Diseño y Artesanía del INBA

  • Rams’ T-1000 shortwave radio receiver

  • Cursos de diseño industrial para graduados e investigadores (Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura UNAM)

  • Henry Dreyfuss became president of the IDSA

  • Giugiaro headed to rival design house Ghia on a single-year contract

  • Giugaro is booted out of Bertone in favor of Marcello Gandini.

  • The De Tomaso Mangusta design became the basis for Giugiaro’s own Italdesign studio in 1967

  • Celebración de los Juegos Olímpicos de México Arq. Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, presidente Comité Organizador

  • Art Deco is coined

    Art Deco is coined
    It was until Bevis Hillier in his definitive book titled Art Deco: the Style of the 1920s and 1930s (Gebhard, 1996: 2) that Art Deco was coined.

  • Licenciatura en Diseño Industrial UNAM dependiente de la Facultad de Arquitectura Herencia del Plan de los Once Años, crecimiento en la oferta educativa técnica, presiones demográficas en la educación media

  • Exposición de artesanía finlandesa en la Casa de la Artesanía Jalisciense con obras de: Timo Sarpaneva Tapio Wirkkala

  • Henry Dreyfuss standards for signs and symbols

  • Instituto Mexicano de Comercio Exterior: Centro de Diseño

  • Inicio de cursos de licenciatura en diseño industrial Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara

  • Henry Dreyfuss Symbol Source Book

  • Henry Dreyfuss dies.

  • Tapio Wirkkala dicta conferencias en la UNAM y en la UAG

  • Escuela de Diseño Industrial, Universidad de Monterrey, Universidad del Nuevo Mundo, UAM

  • CODIGRAM, apertura del Centro de Diseño del IMCE en Guadalajara

  • Cierre del centro de diseño del IMCE, Seminario de Victor Papanek en la casa de la cultura jaliciense

  • Alavr Aalto dies

  • Fundación de la Facultad de Diseño de la Universidad de Guadalajara

  • Charles Eames

  • XI Congreso Mundial del ICSID, en la Ciudad de México

  • Fundación de ALADI, Asociación Latinoamericana de Diseño Industrial

  • Marcel Breuer dies

  • Vehículos Automotores Mexicanos fabrica el Lerma

  • 1er Encuentro de Estudiantes de Diseño Industrial, ENEDI, en la Universidad de Guadalajara

  • Giugaro is called to work for Seiko watch company

  • George Nelson dies

  • Rams’ BN0021 three-hander watch

  • 1er Interdesign celebrado en México. Cuernavaca.

  • 1er Interdesign celebrado simultaneamente en tres paises: México, Australia, Sudáfrica

  • Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

  • Deutscher Werkbund 100th anniversary commemorated in Berlin

  • Viktor Schreckengost died

  • Eva Zeisel dies at age 105