Now, this is going to sound weird, but the way Terry Irwin uses Pinterest is even more artful than the typical user. Of course, it is clear to see how design could come into play with something like Pinterest, but how can I say that these boards are an actual project and not just a…
Perhaps the most important project Terry Irwin has led, the reworking of the Carnegie Mellon curriculum is not something traditionally ascribed to the field of design. However, that is kind of the point of the project: to expand the meaning of design. As mentioned in her biography, Terry Irwin had developed a deep reverence for…
Over twenty years ago, Greiman started a project with a what she says, was a 35mm Nikon and later a Polaroid SX-70. From brief scenes of trees, plants, and other forms, she took these images within her moving car. To her, she was attracted to the “tension between control and lack of control” of how…
Daring to push the limits of a magazine and its appearance, April Greiman created a poster that had the ability to fold out to almost three by six feet, compared to the usual thirty-two-page sequence, all for Design Quarterly’s133th Issue. The cover displays Greiman and her naked body all in a digitized way with a…
This video was made in 2013 and a lot has changed in these past 6 years. Interaction design has taken has added newer roles to its tally of roles it serves. The whole video was about how interaction design in the past was treated to be about designing for mobile, but then by 2013 the…
All the guest speakers we have had this semester were so different in terms of the kind of work that they do and I was introduced to so many different perspectives, ideologies, methods, processes. I was wide-eyed what this new lecture would be about. I had gone through the description but there wasn’t much I…
Stuart Candy’s lecture was impressive. He was introduced as an experiential futurist. I was fascinated by the term “futurist”. He started off the lecture by putting forth the question “How might we design a better world?”. And then rephrased that into “How might we world a better design?”. The first part of the lecture was…
Otto Eckmann Fox Tile 1899 Before this image, I had a bit of difficulty looking for the similarities between Art Nouveau and Japanese tapestries, but, however, with this tile created for houses, I can see the inspiration far more clearly. This piece makes me think that the art nouveau period was a total…
This Contempora piece created by Cipe Pineles circa 1931 was a 3D medium of cardboard and textiles. I retrieved it from Martha Scotfords book Cipe Pineles, A life in Design. Most of Pineles work that she created at Contempora is very hard to find, but they are perhaps some of the most important step stones…
From the start of Bruno Munari’s career, he did everything in his power to surpass the significant mechanism of himself and the restrictions that humanity applied to life. The disruption from the idea that art is limited to painting, sculpting, or an object of some kind arose to Munari in the 1930’s when he crafted…
Much like The Cell, The Brain was commissioned by the Upjohn Company. The project was completed in 1960. The Upjohn Company was a company that created pharmaceuticals and published a magazine called Scope. The magazine was important because it helped doctors comprehend complex medical and scientific concepts. Similar to The Cell, The Brain was an…
The final piece that I selected for Ellen Lupton’s portfolio is a recent example of her talents in curation. The work is Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial and is the fifth installment in the museum’s contemporary design series. It was co-curated by Andrea Lipps in 2016. This was a very extensive exhibit that showcased the design of over…
The first portfolio piece that I have chosen to represent Ellen Lupton’s body of work is one of her most noted exhibitions for Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, “Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office,” which was completed in 1992. This exhibition was developed to highlight the transition of women from the home to the…
The Cell was commissioned by the Upjohn Company, and the project was completed in 1958. The Upjohn Company was a firm that created pharmaceuticals and released a publication called Scope. The magazine was important because it helped doctors comprehend complex medical and scientific concepts. The Cell was an important project for Will Burtin because unlike…
Lester Beall has created many pieces of graphic design in his time, but perhaps one of his most famous works that he has done would be the logo he did for International Paper. However, he did have assistance in creating this piece with Richard Rogers, an architect in 1960. When first laying eyes on…