History of Industrial Design Week 9 Part 1: Plywood!

Рет қаралды 20,648

Күн бұрын

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...
Links:
Mike Jarvi single piece bench:
• Making a Jarvi Bench
Rotary Veneer Cutter:
• Plywood Making Machine...
Aalto bent knee:
• Making Aalto's Furniture
Fritz Hansen Series 7 Chair:
• The making of a Series...

Пікірлер: 43

@Lantertronics 2 жыл бұрын

I never expected to say "I'm riveted about the history of plywood," yet here I am, riveted about the history of plywood.

@davidzacher8 2 ай бұрын

" Form is ornament" such a good quote - so concise and insightful... Thank you for these, I can not tell you how nice it is to have some Matt Bird back in my life!

@krissberzkalns5308 4 күн бұрын

Thank you Matthew for sharing insight into industrial design. One of the best and most insightful series of industrial design on KZfaq in my opinion. No marketing agenda, just great design history! :)

@eleonoramassaccesi6374 Жыл бұрын

I love those lessons , I will listen all of them , I am an architect but no one told me in 30 years so many details of ID

@bycarolinakobayashi Ай бұрын

Tacos vs potato chip is the best metaphor, and i wouldn't change a thing. It's hilarious and memorable!

@katrussell6819 Жыл бұрын

These are good videos for non-experts who just know what they like when they see it.

@LadyModiva 2 жыл бұрын

I'm hooked to your lectures. I love especially the unedited Art Deco. Thanks for including the bloopers here!

@samslam2052 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for posting this and the rest of your lectures. Wonderful!

@cristinakaminski8998 2 жыл бұрын

Your videos are much more interesting than Netflix, which, by the way, I have cancelled that subscription and now am subscribing to your channel.👍

@ainenidunaigh2370 3 ай бұрын

absolutely brilliant. I’ve watched the whole series. Thank you so very much. Fascinating about Art Deco.

@shannonmassey2851 Жыл бұрын

Matthew, thank you for uploading these lectures for the public. As a non-design professional who is working to appreciate and understand the history of design, your lectures are a godsend. From talking to the importance of re-interpreting the narratives we've been given in the first lecture to emphasizing the pace of global innovation in this video, your content is engaging, interpretable, and worldly. John Ruskin has a passage that eloquently speaks to my feelings on this course, “To be taught to read-what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak-but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think-nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.” Cheers from Chicago and continue helping people to see the beauty and influence around them!

@alexmckenna1171 3 жыл бұрын

A fantastic series. I'm learning so much..

@derekm319 4 жыл бұрын

These lectures are really excellent Matthew! Thank you for sharing.

@DigitalMastery 2 жыл бұрын

This is EXACTLY the kind of stuff my brain loves. Thank you for making it available to the general public. I'd love to see a tour of your office or home... wherever you were recording from... I see many items that I own and many more I'd like to know about.

@MrJwhdz1 2 жыл бұрын

Who knew the history of plywood could be so fascinating..and that bit at the end 🤣🤣🤣

@spaguettoltd.7933 2 жыл бұрын

The Dreyfuss Hudson locomotives got me into Art Deco stuff. What a great video!!!

@insanedumpling123 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting! Thank you

@nordfaen 2 жыл бұрын

Thank YOU very much 😁

@gbresaleking 11 ай бұрын

My grandparents had that charles ray eames wood table with rounded triangular glass top and plywood and leather lounge chair with ottoman and they got both from herman miller furniture company

@agroboy0072 2 жыл бұрын

In Brazil in 2011 the school chairs and tables were all made of plywood. They were very fragile, if they lasted 1 year of use it was a lot. They started to peel at the ends leaving small pieces, sometimes we spent years studying in broken chairs or missing pieces of wood, a totally unpleasant experience. Exposure to sweat and the humid and hot tropical climate favored the soaking of this material and consequently rapid wear. Regarding the aesthetics, they were pleasant and good-looking furniture, but the conversation changes when the subject is durability and rigidity. I don't want to disfavor the advances of the time over plywood, but when it comes to the present day, I realize that things haven't changed much. At this exact moment on my work table (In plywood) I notice that one of the corners is already completely swollen and crumbled. :D

@jamesboekbinder3967 3 жыл бұрын

Beautifully crafted and narrated, including the stubborn inserts and outtakes at the end. It's great to have lectures like this as an intro to work you can explore more deeply. Thanks so much!

@hedbox83 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear about the petty criticisms. Fantastic video! Subscribed, thank you very much.

@drzfinezt180 2 жыл бұрын

“Form is ornament”. Very true indeed sir! Like the cabriole legs on a Rococo fateuil.

@denisbrunstein5183 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the amazing lecture!

@lucyward7598 Жыл бұрын

Fabulous plywood lecture Matthew Bird, enjoyed every last nugget of it 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🥳

@mobboss918 3 жыл бұрын

Matthew, "Our Sabbath Home" "Friendship, Loyalty, Truth" and "Visit the Sick" are all credos associated with the International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF). A benevolent society much like the Elks or Masons. The benches you showed in the video we likely manufactured by The Gardner Co. for the IOOF to be used in their Fraternal lodges around the world. Show Eames Demetrios the Gardner Bench, he will find it fascinating and tell you of a tenacious bench collecting man named Park Lee Taff but not just the bench. His lust for benches compel him to capture the entire lands surrounding the seating unit. See more via Kcymaerxthaere / Bench Spotting through your own research but remember, "Eventually everything connects"

@annaavetisian8769 3 жыл бұрын

The metaphor is the best! ))

@soficeck9104 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, thank you and thank you again!

@michakowalczuk5571 3 жыл бұрын

Great lecture with huge amount of cool knowledge. Thanks man! Greetings from Poland :)

@deborahdavis6801 3 жыл бұрын

Still loving ALL of them!!

@rickardastrom2570 4 жыл бұрын

Yay, nordic design!

@Boguslaw47 3 жыл бұрын

in 1881, Fitzland L. Wilson filed a patent in the United States for a new machine: the veneer lathe was born. It would go on to rationalise timber peeling and intensify the production of thin sheets of wood. But the real turning point occurred a few years later, in 1884. A further patent was filed in the United Kingdom by Witkowski, relating to the use of casein glue to bond sheets of wood together with the grains of adjacent layers arranged at right angles to one another. This invention paved the way for the manufacture of large industrial panels. Between the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th century, plywood began to make its mark in Russia, Finland and Central Europe. Why? Because these countries were blessed with vast quantities of easy-to-peel wood, such as spruce and birch. www.thefrenchplywood.com/a-history-of-performance/

@balisticsquirel 4 жыл бұрын

If i stopped here in the history of furniture design considering materials, i would say that the next logical step should be moulded plant fiber mush. In a matrix of resin, fibers oriented in all directions would achieve more of the omni-directional strength than even plywood does. Would be more formable, as plastic has made possible. Use more of the tree than plywood. One could also tweak properties by choosing the resin content. IF we were going to continue using the natural (plant, renewable) resource that is.

@faithinverity8523 Жыл бұрын

How about Fortune Cookie instead of Potato Chip; it suggests symmetry?

@brandongoon789 4 ай бұрын

I think a Pringle makes more sense than a potato chip

@beseggg 2 жыл бұрын

that's a pity you haven't mentioned tiny bit more of hans wegner :(

@HistoryofID 2 жыл бұрын

I agree!!!!!! Because his work didn't really explore or test plywood he didn't fit here, so I put him in a whole separate talk on Danish design. It this were more focused on furniture design, not plywood and production, he would have a staring role!

@lundsweden 3 жыл бұрын

Just a thought... Is the potato chip type chair similar to hyperbolic paraboloid shapes such as a saddle?

@kidmohair8151 3 жыл бұрын

better metter fore...I don't have one, just playing with the syllables

@jamesboggs9982 3 жыл бұрын

Taco got very confusing. Lol

@lisad1993 3 жыл бұрын

Taco vs Potato Chip maybe Wave vs Flower Petal?

@davidgold5961 25 күн бұрын

28:23 I love your presentation, but at 28 minutes and 23 seconds the word FINNISH needs to have two of the letter N, not one. Also PAVILION has only one letter L.

@HistoryofID 24 күн бұрын

THANK YOU!!!!!! Too late to fix it now, and that's the price for moving too fast trying to get these done in such a short time. But I love having the corrections noted for all!