History of ID Week 8 Part 2: The Profession of Industrial Design (Henry Dreyfuss)

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Watch as a desperate teacher tries to convert a live classroom experience into an online learning opportunity. 2020 Covid-19 management strategy. If you are here for class, hope you enjoy this. If you are just finding it on your own, PLEASE be kind. This is intended to solve problems in a time of crisis. It should live in a land beyond the reach of petty criticisms of my voice or mistaken pronunciation or differing interpretations that fill up so many comment boxes. Available to all because we need to work together and share resources. Feel free to use or share if this is useful in your own problem solving.
Matthew Bird, Industrial Design, Rhode Island School of Design, April 14, 2020
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@m.entera3196 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making these available online. I've learned so much.

@Asquared 2 жыл бұрын

I watched the Loewy lecture and this one back to back the other night and they both have really stuck with me. You could not have done a better job describing their two different ways and means. Your tone at the end of this Dryfess lecture made me reluctant to google their fate. I don’t usually get moved by stories like that, but damn it brought tears to my eyes. What an amazing couple. Thank you so much for making these public. I can’t tell you how great they have been. Sincerely and humbly, A2

@jamyla 3 ай бұрын

Henry Dreyfuss and Doris Marks were married and she was his business manager for over 40 yrs. In the summer of 1972, he and his team completed his book on Graphic Symbols used around the World. In Oct 1972, Henry and Doris, who had a terminal illness, decided to end their lives together. Read "Henry Dreyfuss, Industrial Designer" (The Man In The Brown- Suit) by Russell Flinchum. A truly remarkable man who lived his life with great integrity.

@JayPatel-qw5qf 4 жыл бұрын

This is a gem of a course with very interesting content even for a newbie like me. Thanks for sharing this freely online. I hope this is permanent.

@marusholilac 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making this content available to the public. During this COVID-19 time I decided to refresh my bathroom, which I have lived with for 39 years. I discovered it was the Crane Drexel line, and that Dreyfuss has inspired it. With time on my hands I decided I'd like to learn something about the man, the profession, the history; so here I am. Thanks for this fine content and for enlightening me about some of the commonplace items I've never given their due. And thanks for the great production value and refraining from adding mindless KZfaqy royalty-free music.

@1st1anarkissed 2 жыл бұрын

My basement gas heater has a honeywell round thermostat with a gold tone plastic cover. It's quite old and the original one installed in this house. It's the coolest looking thermostat I've ever seen.

@litsci1877 Жыл бұрын

I'm looking at the Crane bathroom sink ad -- while the woman's powdering her face, the main thing that stance recalls is taking off clip-on earrings, and if you wear earrings, the thing a sink does, apart from letting you brush your teeth, is eat earrings. And she's not afraid of losing hers down the drain. That speaks to a solid drain closure, an important feature -- also, in that era, for washing out your lingerie, which of course wouldn't go in an ad like this one.

@josieTheDuck 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your lectures! I am watching all of them and also ordered 2 books on industrial design that you gave recommended for the course.

@georginavillasenor7164 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, it's amazing your job AND so fun!! I enjoyed all :)

@RobertHsu Жыл бұрын

Fascinating lecture. I am a UX Designer, and I came across Henry Dreyfuss through a book called, User Friendly. Even though this is Industrial Design related, we can still relate so much to this, particularly about focusing on the user and making it user friendly.

@rexfaucher9773 Жыл бұрын

I`ve enjoyed viewing the videos. I need to point out the black architect ,Paul R. Williams developed drawing upside down for his clients so he could sit at his desk and draw for them without hovering behind the clients which he claimed made some uncomfortable. A rather outdated idea in the modern world, but an interesting one none the less.Thank you for the wonderful videos.Cheers,RF

@nordfaen 2 жыл бұрын

Thank YOU very much 😁

@shirinchepirinche 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome series.

@intsikayethu495 2 жыл бұрын

I commend your level of detail 🤌 Your love for the subject matter clearly comes out in your videos. I`m glad I also get to enjoy this content , thank you for making these✌

@kingdongo4388 2 ай бұрын

This video was MEGA!!

@Lantertronics 2 жыл бұрын

I love the story about the vacuum cleaner run amok.

@marrrtin 2 жыл бұрын

Someone who made our modern world. Deserves wider recognition, dare you say it, more than Loewy, from my recollections of his telephone and other objects which became woven into our lives in a very durable fashion, and I don't see any of his design philosophies being out of tune with what we need today. Indeed, more of this rational and commonsense approach might be more welcome now, particularly his observations on planned obsolescence.

@elizabeth4689 3 жыл бұрын

Matt, thank you for this lecture. I'm reading the book "user friendly" and it spends a chapter dedicated to dreyfuss' work. Sad that he left like that.

@harringtonskorupka7386 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the lectures Matt! Im a Transportation Design student at Art Center College of Design, looking for more history of ID. Very informative and eye opening! Once everything opens back up, I hope to visit RISD campus one day!

@baskets8429 Жыл бұрын

Incredible videos

@richdoty6993 2 жыл бұрын

Great content, thanks! I have a huge thermostat collection and was surprised at the comment that the mercury thermostat started with the Honeywell round. I will have to check on that further as many older looking thermostats have mercury. I'm sure you are correct.

@HistoryofID 2 жыл бұрын

Yes yes you are right that mercury use did not start with that Dreyfuss thermostat. But the mercury switch used was a new addition....

@vipinverma1773 2 жыл бұрын

Very great lecture, got some very new perspective from your lecture.

@Eli_Santin Жыл бұрын

While I love both Loewy and Dreyfuss' different senses of design equally, I tend to admire Dreyfuss more for his more modest/friendly personality and, dare I say, ever-so-slightly less pretentious design style. You can see their different approaches in the locomotives they designed for the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads. Loewy's "Torpedo" is more abstract and concealing of the steam locmotive's mechanics. The NYC Dreyfuss Hudson is minimalistic in a very smart way. It's stylish, but not TOO stylish, and it doesn't try to hide the majestic movement of the driving wheels and rods.

@csours 4 жыл бұрын

18:55 I had a very cheap point and shoot 35 mm camera back in the day - 199X. When I upgraded to a camera with manual focus and f-stop, I took apart the cheap one, and there was a metal slug in the body. I think it was definitely partly to increase the heft to make it feel more valuable, but it also served a practical purpose - reducing jitter. Everyone has a slight tremble/tremor, and adding mass mitigates that tremble. Gaming mice have a tray of weights that the user can customize to their particular feel, 5 grams at a time. Again, I'm sure some of this is psychological, but it also adds impedance.

@4Fox_Shake 2 жыл бұрын

I suspect the mouse weights has more to do with haptics than a quality deception, some gaming mice come with extra weight options to choose from . For quality deception it is still often seen today. Thank you for posting these classes

@Lantertronics 2 жыл бұрын

So we did have flying cars!

@gaiwan26 2 жыл бұрын

I am curious about the spatula handle being painted. Why would they have opted for this versus a material that wouldn’t require paint, but could still have color options?

@CheeseMiser 3 жыл бұрын

26:41 That is a model of the experimental Model 69 tractor, which became the John Deere M

@HistoryofID 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info! Always good to get the details!

@faithinverity8523 Жыл бұрын

“If you are old enough to remember a computer mouse…” Are mice not part of the contemporary design toolset?

@HistoryofID Жыл бұрын

Amazingly, all of my students use their adept fingers on tiny track pads instead. At least until their hands start to fail them?

@tiagoleal-toledo9262 4 жыл бұрын

I miss the history of Hfg-Ulm somewhere

@HistoryofID 4 жыл бұрын

I snuck Ulm into plastic week. Might not be the best logic, but that's where it is hiding....

@tiagoleal-toledo9262 4 жыл бұрын

@@HistoryofID Thank you! Will see it

@CheeseMiser 3 жыл бұрын

I'm just sad that he ended his life.

@jamyla 3 ай бұрын

Don't be sad. He ended his life on his own terms, with integrity and courage. His wife, who was also his business partner, had a terminal illness and was in discomfort. He took her hand and they left this world together. ❤

@CheeseMiser 3 ай бұрын

@@jamyla it's still sad