History of Industrial Design Week 7: BONUS content: What About Those Funny Shaped Cars?

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History of Industrial Design Week 7: BONUS content: What About Those Funny Shaped Cars?

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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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@thrillscience 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this fascinating talk. I'm one of your non-student fans -- a 57 year old who graduated college back in 1984 and never studied design at all. Your lectures are wonderful, and I appreciate the additional content in the wake of COVID-19.

@YellowFreesias 2 жыл бұрын

My grandfather had an Isetta in the 50s, he somehow took my grandmother and uncle camping in it when he wasn't using it to drive around the UK selling carpet. If you drove too far into the garage you couldn't get out the door and had to get someone to push the car back bc it had reverse.

@BreathlessConni 3 жыл бұрын

The egg that saved BMW! My dad had two that he restored. I used to love telling people we had two BMWs... w two doors. Total. He (& Elvis ) also had a Messerschmitt. Elvis gave his to his tailor. PS YOU ROCK. I am loving this class!!!

@tghhh19 4 жыл бұрын

Non-student here. Thank you for this video. Inspiring.

@janbosenberg107 4 жыл бұрын

This is an almost magical video. I did not know that voices like yours still exist.

@jess_o 2 жыл бұрын

Not a student, but a huge fan. Thanks for making these available!

@dpr5105 3 жыл бұрын

Matthew, I really enjoy these videos. As an automotive designer I've done lectures on the difference between what is considered streamline design versus what were true aerodynamic investigations starting in the 20's. Though the terms have been used interchangeably (Jaray's company used the term "Streamline" while at the 1933 Chicago show Cadillac showed it's "Aero-Dynamic" coupe. It was not..) there was a real difference between cars that used "streamline" styling as an expression of modernism, especially in the 30's, compared to the few cars that were actually trying to leverage the science of aerodynamics and it's associated benefits.

@HomeBuiltByHoward 4 жыл бұрын

I would guess the Paul Arzens car with the batteries is the one in the right without the cooling grills. It would make sense that a big ass V-8 might need some airflow for a radiator. The integrated lights on the earlier model might have been hidden behind part of the radiator grill, and just omitted in the battery powered follow-up, but mentioned in the publicity.

@hieroglyph321 4 жыл бұрын

Non-ID student here. Loved this. Thanks.

@philipthedude 4 жыл бұрын

awesome, i hope car design will get this crazy on a larger scale again. I saw a temporary exhibition about microcars in Louwman Museum (netherlands) a while ago and ever since i find a lot of modern cars to big and fat like a highly stylized aubergine . thanks for the upload, i look forward to more design lectures! I secretly hope for bicycles, motorbikes or cyclecars, but i'm guessing these are the actual lectures for an university and there is a planned trajectory, and you have gotten me interested in opera dresses and vases, which i thought would be impossible so who knows whats next.

@nordfaen 2 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU VERY MUCH 😁

@nilo70 2 жыл бұрын

I came for the eye candy !

@ThatsAllFolkss 4 жыл бұрын

Wow. Very cool stuff!

@danghaf2085 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting for Chrysler to bring up the Airflow name again

@ytube777 4 жыл бұрын

Wunibald Kamm (kammback) deserves a shoutout (I apologize if you mentioned him)... the design reaches out to the generation 2 of the toyota prius.

@utkandora 4 жыл бұрын

I still wonder why we did not opt for microcars like Isetta so that we can have smaller parking lots in urban landscpaes, use less fuel and less material in production, I imagine if you want to the furniture store there could be a carrying compartment that could attach to these cars to make up for the small size, I feel like our personal desire to have flamboyant objects made these cars less and less appealing to the customer filled with proving his masculinity and superiority by owning a larger car. (Dora's thought bubble ends.) Thank you Matt for this snipet of a lecture.

@virginiacharlotte7007 3 жыл бұрын

Family size and family outings would have driven the design process as well I think. These lectures are great, aren't they? :)

@joealtmaier9271 4 жыл бұрын

Wow single rear wheel steering - what a mistake. Unstable at any speed. They must have known this, simply driving them off the truck into the showroom?