DESIGN RESPONSE TO DESIGNERS_ CRITICAL & CREATIVE TIHNKING 20TH CENTURY FURNITURE
Student: Zhiyu Yan (Kevin) Student ID: 3499518
INTRODUCTION RESEARCH ABOUT CHARLES EAMES RESEARCH (FURNITURE WRK ABOUT CHARLES EAMES)
CONTENTS
BRAINSTORM IDEAS BRAINSTORMING SKETCH CONCEPT DRAWING REFLECTION REFERENCE LIST
INTRODUCTION This assessment is about the design our own furniture by inspirited by our own designers. Once we done the task 1 which is about to research our designers, so we should have a little bit concept during that process of research. This task (Task2) is a chance to produce our own concept ideas. The designs (4 minimum) for new items of furniture that influenced by our designers, and our designs should be taken to design development stage (dimensions, material specification, colors and 3D views).
Research about Charles Eames Charles and Ray Eames's careers in the 1950s reflected America's postwar shift from an industrial economy of goods to a post-industrial society of facts. Rather than furnishings and buildings, the Eames Office focused its work on communication systems—exhibitions, announcements, and movies. The Eameses produced these media for governments at home and abroad, for industry, and for the education and pleasure of their friends and associate. In these efforts the Eameses used representation of daily tradition and entertainments, vernacular landscapes, and regular objects to help popular culture as the currency of exchange between countries and people. Their communications projects elevated Charles and Ray Eames to the condition of cultural ambassadors overseas and interpreters of the meaning of America at home.
Charles Eames and Ray Kaiser Eames met while attending the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and they married in 1941. From the beginning of their collective partnership, they focused on creating multifunctional modern designs. While at Cranbrook, Charles collaborated with Eero Saarinen on a family of wood furniture designs that won the Museum of Modern Art’s 1940 “Organic Design in Home Furnishings” competition. These designs, which included experimental molded plywood chairs, were conceived of as functional, affordable options for consumers looking for modern yet livable domestic environment. These issues confirm to be the salient worries of much of the Eames’ furniture designs of the next three decades. The Eameses finally developed the product line to include molded plywood dining chairs, tables, and storage units. Their exploratory approach to materials continued through the consecutive decades with the use of molded fiberglass for a series of cheap shell chairs, a collapsible sofa, an upholstered, molded lounge chair, a range of aluminum-framed furniture, and many other creative designs. The furniture designs of the Eames were fast accepted for both domestic and commercial use, and many of these greatly well-known items are still in production today.
Research about Charles Eames Charles Eames along with Ray Eames made major offering to the American Mid-Century modern furniture design as well as building design. They remodel the postwar America with modern, playful, and functional designs and are both accountable for many iconic, classic designs of the 20th century. The Eames lounge chair and ottoman is one of those most recognizable, emblematic designs that have come to character Mid-Century design. Today, the design of Charles and Ray Eames are instantly recognizable. One design like their lounge chair and ottoman, for example, adds a level of swank sophistication to any room. With over 50 years as one of the best trader of all time, the Eames lounge chair and ottoman are a evidence to the lasting impact of unyielding, great design of this pair of modernists.
They were among the first designers to use the innovative materials plywood and fiberglass in their chair designs. They were also a part of a new movement of designers in the forties and fifties who were turning away from modernism’s obsession for the machine and towards clear organic and normal forms. The styles of chairs they advanced for the Herman Miller company would become their symbol and made the career of the Eameses for thirty years following. The grace and functionality of these designs speaks to Eameses’ concern for both aesthetic and technical quality and the chase of a central idea which they would work through as they advanced their process.
Research (Furniture Work of Charles Eames)
DSR chair
La Chaise Eames Lounge Chair Wood
Eames Storage Unit Lounge Chair and Ottoman
Hang-It-All
Brainstorming (Ideas)
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The style of Charles Eames & Ray Eames are very Playful, Modern and Colorful.
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Their most popular material that Eameses used is the Plywood, sometimes they use Wire in their chair frame.
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Try to explore more about the Storage Units which is one of most famous design of them.
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Try to think about the Molded Methods that Eameses used.
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In their designs, we can see more Curve, and also shows the Modernistic Style.
Brainstorming Sketch
Concept Drawing
Concept Drawing
Concept Drawing
Concept Drawing
Concept Drawing
Concept Drawing
REFLECTION During this task, I learnt deeply about my designer Charles Eames & Ray Eames, they are great furniture pioneers, we usually see one designer did a lot of famous and incredible works, but when one famous designer work with another famous designer together, it is amazing. So if the task one is the foundational learning about them, I can say task two, I learnt more about them. This is a quite interesting project, it gave me a chance to “work with my designer�. During this process of concept thinking, I learnt how to thinking and process ideas, and try to thinking about the design like them, that was great. In addition, I try to exercise my drawing skills, this is my second time to draw the furniture work, so I improved during this process. Finally, my designer gave me some ideas that hot to design a thing, like thinking about the materials, colors or something else. The trouble that I met in this process might be that my rendering (marker) skill is not good, so some colors maybe not did very well, but I think I can improve that little by little.
Reference List https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/eames/culture.html http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/eame/hd_eame.htm http://www.eamesoffice.com/eames-office/charles-and-ray/ http://www.eamesoffice.com/
http://www.fowfurniture.com/blog/tips-and-guides/how-ray-and-charles-eames-influenced-mid-century-furniture/ https://howcreativeswork.com/2013/12/20/charles-and-ray-eames/ http://www.apollo-magazine.com/california-dreaming-reconsidering-the-work-of-charles-and-ray-eames/ http://www.take-a-seat.net/product/43/eames-lounge-chair-and-ottoman-2 http://www.f10studios.co.uk/charles-eames/ https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2012/jul/22/10-best-eames-designs-pictures https://au.pinterest.com/pin/336433034636592976/