History of Industrial Design Week 10 Part 1: Eva Zeisel, Russel Wright, Freda Diamond (and Noguchi)

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These videos were made in 2020 as a desperate COVID-era attempt to help keep students engaged in learning as in-person teaching stopped. With no support, no resources, a ridiculous "production schedule," and no idea they would become a sort of permanent record of the time, I just threw them at KZfaq. The students mostly didn't watch them, but lots of others did, and that continues to amaze me. I decided to leave them up for anyone who is just curious about design.
NOTE: If you are a current student at Rhode Island School of Design and your professor has sent you here to watch these videos, you should really worry about how much tuition you are paying just to have a teacher sending you to KZfaq instead of teaching you themselves. Just saying...
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Forgot to mention that you should watch this:
• Throwing Curves - Goin...

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@keith161 4 жыл бұрын

I fortunately stumbled across your channel. Thank you for producing a captivating, binge-worthy series. You're an excellent host and guide through an introspective tour through the design world.

@StreetSong 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for putting these lectures online. I'm not a design student, just a hobbyist woodworker who loves mid century design and stumbled on this channel. I'm now binge watching all of them!

@Lantertronics 2 жыл бұрын

The story about Isamu Noguchi volunteering to help in an internment camp and then winding up a full-on prisoner there is heart wrenching.

@TheAshoka2009 2 жыл бұрын

M. Bird is the best! It's amazingly informative, yet entertains and best artist of presentation... THankyou

@alexmckenna1171 3 жыл бұрын

These videos should be on "Big TV".... really. Eva Zeisel! What a gal !!

@randymerrill6146 2 жыл бұрын

I strongly agree with the gentleman below (Keith). Thank you.

@marilyncummins1117 4 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed this tremendously! My aunt's every day dishes for her wedding in the early '50s were American Modern, and I have a large collection of place settings and serving pieces, plus the Wright's "Guide..." book, some spun aluminum pieces, and a tablecloth. Also met their daughter at a book signing in NJ many years ago. Best find: the aluminum bun warmer for 25 cents!! at the church thrift shop next to my home in PA.

@HistoryofID 4 жыл бұрын

Well done. 1000% profit on that score!

@imrebenedect Жыл бұрын

Your channel is amazing! ❤️❤️❤️🤩🤩🤩

@georgejacovides9923 3 жыл бұрын

Again thank you. Very interesting.

@_swedenotswiss267 4 жыл бұрын

Thankyou for today's lesson!!!

@Lantertronics 2 жыл бұрын

I'm binge watching this series like it's a new series of Stranger Things.

@sasankhaledi4073 4 жыл бұрын

great lecture, well done

@nordfaen 2 жыл бұрын

Thank YOU very much 😁

@Lantertronics 2 жыл бұрын

I love the story about Freda Diamond, Paul Robeson, and Emma Goldman.

@HistoryofID 2 жыл бұрын

Yes we NEED a big Hollywood movie about it!!!!!

@deborahdavis6801 2 жыл бұрын

So I am on my 2nd time watching your wonderful classes and this time I noticed that I have a Russell Wright Iroquois teapot! It is a repro made by Oneida, but, that design! Probably got at Goodwill...(:

@katrussell6819 Жыл бұрын

Thanks. I will know what I found in the thrift shops, now, if I am lucky.

@thrillscience 4 жыл бұрын

Who makes your eyeglass frames? (And that Roll Easy vacuum is beautiful!)

@HistoryofID 3 жыл бұрын

They are just inexpensive reading glasses from readers.com. No big secret.....

@frances3254 3 жыл бұрын

OK, I cheated. My 85 yr. old brain couldn't keep up with your words. But I certainly thank you for some beautiful visuals, one being 'Tulip' chair and all Russell Wright pics!!!!! NM USA Also, someone said, " there's no such thing as original art". So it's interesting watching these folks evolving from each other.

@kebid 3 жыл бұрын

The interview you are looking for is part of the documentary "Throwing Curves" (yes, someone made a film about Eva) Jyll Johnstone, Canobie Films. I recommend it.

@kebid 3 жыл бұрын

... oh, and by the way, the first time I talked to her, I got politely advised by Eva that she makes it a point to "NEVER talk to anyone who uses the word 'STILL'." I was inviting her out to speak at ArtCenter and I assured her that she would never again hear me say that she was "still" working. I have many stories about what I learned at her knee.

@HistoryofID 3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU!!!!! Mystery solved!!!!

@kebid 3 жыл бұрын

@@HistoryofID Years ago I walked into Vidiots, a West LA landmark rental place for obscure and wonderful films, and babbled at the counter guy that I was looking for a "documentary, can't remember the name, could have been PBS, and it covered Robert Moses, and I can't find it!" Without missing a beat or looking at any sort of catalogue, he said, "Why, that's volume 8 of Ric Burns' series on New York." Coulda kissed him. It's an excellent series, by the way.