Me too. I'm wishing I had gone to design school, and then remember I have no creativity whatsoever. It's great having these lessons available

Same.

This comment makes me so happy and remind me of being so so lucky. Matt Bird is the best teacher out there. I took his classes in 2014-2016 + am so happy others have the privilege to learn from him now too.

@@finolacat8355 everyone is creative! Design school helps teach how to see the world + approach problems with a new mindset :)

@@lilliankrieger9867 I agree with your comment that everyone has creativity.

Janosch Weddeling I assumed he was trying to induce madness. My bad

That's GREAT! I am JUST finishing the last one now and then the whole class is recorded!

Happy to! There really isn't any one textbook for an ID history class. We use a combo. The Industrial Design Reader, Carma Gorman is an amazing primary source collection that gives all the thinking and important ideas. Industrial Design A to Z, Charlotte and Peter Fiell, is a big dictionary of beautiful pictures and brief summaries which gives a broad overview. The two combined, I HOPE, give a sense of what happened and why.

Thanks for the enthusiasm! Here's the timeline: historyofid.com/download/timeline.2017.pdf

@@HistoryofID 🤯🙌🙏 this is brilliant (and my first ever comment on YT)

Sorry it took me so long to reply; I had to figure out the best place to park this for you: historyofid.com/download/timeline.2017.pdf

Sure!!! I put it here for you: historyofid.com/download/timeline.2017%20(1).pdf

Hi, I don't know if he would have read and answered your comment but just in case, here's the link he sent to another person asking for the same thing: historyofid.com/download/timeline.2017.pdf I hope you can learn a lot from it.

We use two text books: The Industrial Design Reader (editor Carma Gorman) which is all primary source writings, and Industrial Design A to Z (Charlotte and Peter Fiell) a sort of overview with lots of pictures.

@@HistoryofID Thank you very much for the response: do you have specialized sources for ID theory someone persistent enough could obtain?

Never wake the panda!!!! Best to let it sleep..

I don't disagree with his points, but still wanted more ID and less politics. The hard part of telling global design is that for so long, certain parts of the world were separate, so you can't tell them in a timeline fashion concurrently. You'd be skipping around too much. Later on, it becomes more globally interconnected, but the ideas and threads themselves split and fracture so much that that just talking about, say, mid century modern, you have the danish/Scandinavian take on it, which was one thing, the American version which was different, the Japanese version, and so on, meanwhile just one designer is pulling from Mexican influences and another is french, and so on and so on... Concurrently, you'll have another design movement going either going on or splitting off and it's this huge web of influence. ID itself is hard to explain because it's a field that is incredibly cross disciplinarian. Materials, aesthetics, ergonomics, manufacturing and cost accounting are just a few fields you need to dabble in to understand it.

Also I would say that the 20th century was when it exploded and went truly global (as did everything else), and the 40's through 70's was kind of it's golden age, which was right during/after the aforementioned new global community and sudden investment/improvement in materials development, technological discovery, and revolutions in manufactury. By the 80's it felt like designing new got harder, and though we talk of globalization happening in the 90's and on, this is more about maturing supply chains for efficiencies and McDonalds and coca cola becoming worldwide dominating the world, and actually you have a flattening out of the uniqueness of culture. The internet didn't help either. Since the 90's we've become a global monoculture of sorts, which means less inspiration and sources for hybridization. The 80's also was probably when we started focusing on materialistic values, meaning rather than liking a nice design and something beautiful and functional, we kind of started judging things on the $$$ value of the materials. Jewelry is all about the glitz. Diamonds and gold. Tables chairs, etc. are judged as "high quality" because it's either mahogany or black walnut. (Sometimes plywood is the superior material). Plastics in high quality unique jewelry would be considered a laughable idea. On the manufacturing side, we consider cost to price numbers more than we do the use and longevity of products. We're just incredibly focused on profits. R&D departments in corporations are also incredibly starved compared to previous decades. I mean I got a crash course in ID for work, and I asked about why it stopped in the 80's, but it also took trying to look at design after the 70's myself and notice the rise and fall to get the understanding of why it's not really discussed.

@@SerifSansSerif there are certainly points to disagree with, though in his defense they are not his area. e.g. smallpox allowing europeans to conquer central america with smaller armies; the spaniards enlisted/relied upon the aid of the indigenous enemies of the Aztecs to augment their meager forces. the idea that a handful of conquistadors toppled the Aztec empire has long since been abandoned.