IDES 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hans Wegner, Scandinavian Design, Plywood
15 Dec 2016
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IDES 1000 Day 8
❖ History: modernism post WWII
❖ Optimism and growth
o North America was not invaded and left mostly in tackt
o Tubawear parties
▪ Good use of plastic
▪ Lots of clever features
• Push in middle to seal
• Keeps food longer
o The home was comfortable
o Miller company
• Used molded plywood
▪ Charls and ray eames
• Molded plywood chairs
o Hennery dreyfuse
▪ Began to look at peoples heights
▪ Designed for people of various sizes
▪ Some things should come in different sizes
• Shirts
• Shoes
▪ Some things are okay without different sizes
▪ Also designed things that everyone uses
• Rotary phone
o How ig should the finger holes be
• Typerighters
o Why are the keyboards letters in the order they are
▪ To make you type faster
▪ When typerighters used hammers to punch ink letters,
letters that are commonly beside eachother were kept
apart so theat the two hammers did not stick together
and gam the machein
▪ Humans like radial
❖ Promoting design
o Museams
o Advertisement
▪ In America driven by styal
▪ In Europe driven by function
❖ Scandinavian design
o Uses natural materials
▪ Glass
▪ Wood
▪ Metal
❖ Futalis 9’s
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