In week 2 January 10th and January 12th we started off by talking about what design actually is, and how it is different from art. Art is for the individual how creates it. Design is for the public and has a use other than just to look at. It is also purposeful, creative, and systematic. Design has a history clear back to the making of stone tools in 2 million B.C. During the Industrial Revolution one notable person in the mid-18th century was James Watt who designed the first steam engine. This is when mass production took off in big factories. Later in the 1860s Thonet was the first to bend Beachwood to make new iconic chairs. The Bauhaus is the first design school located in Germany it taught the design prelim classes which are still used today.
Next we learned about the evolution of chairs. The Barcelona Chair, created by Mies van der Rohe in 1929, can be found around campus such as the Wexner Center, Fine Arts Library, etc... Eero Sarinen, Verner Panton, and Charles & Ray Eames are also a few designers who made new innovative chairs. There are three types of design that we went into detail explaining and what kind of jobs is possible for each major. Ohio State offers: Industrial, Interior Space, and Visual Communication Design. A symbol is an abstracted message that is more open to interpretation. An icon is a realistic representation of an object, and a Metaphor is created to make concepts easier to grasp. Two Examples of Visual Synthesis is the arrow between the 'E' and 'x' in 'FedEx', and an eleven on the sides of the 'T' in 'Big Ten'.
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