Journal 04

Faces

 

 

Reading Reflection 04

Chapters 7 and 8 discussed Identities and Systems. In the first chapter, Heskett talked about how different cultures, nations, and environments portray various things in the world differently and how many different objects hold identities for those people. Designers must take this into consideration. In the next chapter, he talked about systems, how many different objects and things can collectively come together to display a single idea as a whole. He mainly used transportation and road signs as examples but this can be seen everywhere there are people trying to communicate with other people or get a message across.

Class Reflection 04

I learned a lot this past week in class about accessibility and how designers should be designing universally and in ways that do not exclude certain demographics. The lecture on accessibility really heightened my interest for design because I believe that one of my gifts and desires in life is to be a problem solver, and knowing that the field of design has a great need for these types of problem solvers, it makes me even more excited to become some type of designer.

Reading Reflection 03

Chapters 4, 5, and 6 offer very interesting information that I never thought of before. All three chapters talked about how there is more to the objects that designers design than we think of what is even seen. So much more is taken into account before and during the design process of a single object or idea because the designers have to consider the many different ways the object could be used, can communicate ideas, and affect its surrounding. It seems like being a designer takes a lot more thinking than I first thought; none-the-less, it sounds very intriguing and exciting.

Class Reflection 03

I thought the lecture from last Wednesday was very interesting. After spending so much time in architecture firms and learning countless information about architecture processes and the profession as a whole, it was good to see another profession with a similar process of doing things. I was in fact surprised to find out that the Design process is very similar to the Architecture process of completing a project. This particular class definitely opened my eyes and mode me more aware of what kind of work I would be doing as either a professional designer or a licensed architect.

Journal 03 - Survey

Assignment 02 - Designer 3: Ettore Sottsass

Ettore Sottsass is best known for creating the design group called Memphis, but many of his works have been well know as well. As a child, he enjoyed art very much, especially painting; however, Ettore Sottsass Sr. made his son study at Turin Polytechnic to become an architect in 1939. Throughout his life, Sottsass would always take photographs of almost “everything that caught his eye” and drew inspiration from the cultures and environments around him (designmuseum.org). He was also skilled in the art of ceramics, so when he ventured to New York in 1956, Sottsass was commissioned for a number of ceramic projects in addition to focusing on industrial design. During this period of industrial and product design, Sottsass also designed a new typewriter, calculator, and designs for rooms called “’superbox’ closets in stripely plastic laminate” and a “mobile multi-functional fiberglass furniture unit” (designmuseum.org). In 1980, Sottsass and 20 other designers started the notorious design group called Memphis. This group’s main objective “was to revive Radical Design” along with furthering Ettore’s thinking and ideas by putting them to work (design-technology.org). While in Memphis, he also designed mealware, glassware, and other furniture until 1985. Upon resigning from the group in 1988, Ettore Sottsass definitely lived up to his motives; instead of making design solely about functionalism, he insisted that “design should also be sensual and exciting” (designmuseum.org).

http://designmuseum.org/design/ettore-sottsass
http://www.design-technology.org/ettoresottsass.htm