Steve Jobs is associated with hundreds of Apple's patents, including groundbreaking ones for the iPod's Click Wheel interface and the iPhone's MultiTouch screen. Although he died in 2011, new patents with his name as an inventor are still being published, as they were in the application or review process at the time of his passing. His patents cover a wide range of products and features, such as computer cases, mice, packaging, keyboards, display devices, and even the distinctive glass staircases in Apple Stores.
…………..conversation, rather than sketches, is how Ive often begins a project. Thinking—and then speaking about that thinking—is the raw material he works with. “Language is so powerful,” Ive says. “If [I say] I’m going to design a chair, think how dangerous that is. Because you’ve just said chair, you’ve just said no to a thousand ideas’.…………
The five most impactful chair designs of mid-century modernism. Dezeen deputy editor Cajsa Carlson explores the history of five of the most iconic mid-century modern chair designs. Mid-century modern was a design movement that ran from the late 1940s to the start of the 1970s, characterised by sleek lines, functionality and geometric shapes. This video rounds up the most iconic chairs of the movement, including the Eames Shell Chair, Arne Jacobsen 's Egg Chair and Verner Panton's Panton Chair among others.
In 1941, Charles was attempting to reinvent the very concept of a chair with his friend Eero Saarinen at the Organic Furniture Competition sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. With the assistance of Berniece “Ray” Kaiser, a painter, Charles and Eero won the top prize. Their victorious plywood chair design, however, could not be mass-produced as currently constructed. It splintered at the point where the back met the seat, frustrating their stated design intent of moulding a single piece of plywood into the shape of a fully functional chair.
BRANDMADE.TV: How HERMAN MILLER makes the Eames Lounge Chair Wood Chair. From concept to creation, from factory to fame, BrandmadeTV tells the story of the most recognized & iconic products.
Eames Molded Plywood Lounge Chair Wood Base (LCW).
The LCW was first made available to the public in 1946, and is still made in the same configuration today. By that year, four plywood adult chairs had been developed for market release as well as the child's nested chair. The Eames LCW Side Chair had a dining height sister chair (DCW) and the two were replicated with metal bases in the DCM and LCM. The group as a whole would soon become known as the ‘Eames Chairs’ and was marketed as such through the early 50’s.
The LCW was a fusion of five separate molded plywood forms. The support was made up of two curved legs of different sizes and a formed spine. The back rest and seat were then fixed to the support via rubber shock mounts.
Eames Fiberglass Armchair
Ray and Charles Eames released their molded fiberglass armchair in 1950, after creating it for the International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design, sponsored by the MoMA. The affordable fiberglass design was an answer to the limited financial and material resources available after WWII.
In its earliest form, this chair was molded plastic on an aluminum base, upholstered with fabric cushions. Eventually, the style expanded to offer a variety of finishes, bases, and upholstery options.
STACKING CHAIR
The Eameses created the Stacking and Ganging Side Chair in 1954 in response to demands for a lightweight, stacking chair that could be set up quickly for seating large groups and, at the same time, be stored easily.
What is Design? In 1969, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs invited five designers to participate in the exhibition, Qu’est ce que le design? (What is Design?) Each participant submitted work from their offices and printed responses to a series of questions about the nature of the design process.
El proyecto del gimnasio del Colegio de Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas diseñado por el arquitecto Alejandro de la Sota fue construido en 1962 y responde a unos condicionantes muy particulares: un solar difícil, un programa amplio y variado, un presupuesto ajustado y un desnivel de 12 metros entre el suelo del colegio y la calle Joaquín Costa.
……In 1980, when Dominique de Menil met the Italian architect Renzo Piano, he was chiefly known for his collaboration with Richard Rogers on the Centre Georges Pompidou. That controversial building was the opposite of the equally innovative but low-key building that she envisioned for her Houston museum. The building’s cypress siding, steel, and glass are in harmony with its residential neighborhood and defer to the art on display. Piano gave her exactly what she asked for: a museum that seems “small on the outside but large inside,” with 30,000 square feet of gallery space illuminated by natural light filtered through the ingenious system of ferrocement leaves…..
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The iterative and improvisational nature of the creative process, R. Keith Sawyer………….The creative process has often been conceived as a linear process that begins with preparation ; is followed by incubation , during which one or many insights occur; then a selection stage where one of the insights is chosen as most promising; followed by an elaboration or execution of the selected insight. This paper argues that this linear view is inconsistent with conceptions of creativity in a community of creators: Artists and designers who teach in professional schools of art and design. These instructors, professional creatives themselves, teach a creative process that is nonlinear, iterative, and improvisational. To support this claim, the paper reports findings from a multi-year study of the pedagogical beliefs of the instructors and the practices they use in studio classes. The analysis results in eight characteristics of the pedagogy used and the creative process taught by these instructors: Iteration; ambiguity; exploration; emergence; failure; deliberation; reflection; and constraint…………..
Peter Zumthor, Real and Imagined Buildings
Peter Zumthor, internationally acclaimed Swiss architect, gives an interview in which he reveals his thoughts on imagined buildings, dreams and architectural time. Including footage of his Thermal Baths, Vals and Saint Benedict's Chapel, Sumtvitg, Zumthor responds to the depiction of the stable in Ercole de' Roberti's 'Nativity', about 1490, by declaring "a good building should have a soul." This film is one of five giving contemporary perspectives on the National Gallery exhibition 'Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting' (30 April - 21 September 2014).
The genius behind some of the world's most famous buildings | Renzo Piano
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Peter Rice collaborated with Renzo Piano on The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. Completed in 1987, the museum is celebrated for its innovative use of natural light. A standout feature of the project is the technical ingenuity of the roof design. The “leaves” were cast over reinforcement in steel molds, forming the lower string of the roof truss, which is constructed from ductile iron. This design not only filters light but also maintains warm air at a high level between the concrete and the glass above. Peter Rice’s engineering expertise played a crucial role, making him equally deserving of recognition alongside Piano for this project.
