History of Industrial Design Week 9 Part 2: Charles and Ray Eames

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HistoryofID • Matthew Bird

HistoryofID • Matthew Bird

4 жыл 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...

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@mobboss918
@mobboss918 3 жыл бұрын
You mention the LCW as having Skunk for the upholstery but the material used was actually 'Slunk hide', which is the tanned hide of a stillborn or aborted calf fetus. It's still an "exotic" option used for drum heads, cobblery and upholstery.
@HistoryofID
@HistoryofID 3 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU for clearing that up! We spent an entire discussion meeting in class talking about ad investigating the slunk trade (and Persian lamb, and other pretty gross ways we have used animals as products). I misread the original Herman Miller catalog (reproduced in a book at 3 inches tall, making skunk and slunk indistinguishable), and am really grateful to have this detail correct now!
@sharksport01
@sharksport01 5 ай бұрын
Slunkskin
@MrVorpalsword
@MrVorpalsword 3 ай бұрын
OK, English bloke here ..... about pronunciation of the letter T, no forget it .... thanks for the most watchable design lectures out there.
@kebid
@kebid 3 жыл бұрын
Matthew, you may have felt desperate as you converted your classes to online (we all did), but the result is excellent. I teach History of ID at ArtCenter, lived next-door to Eames Demetrios for years and the work of the Eames Office is a favorite part of my term. Enjoyed this video very much.
@MultipleObjectSelector
@MultipleObjectSelector 2 жыл бұрын
Your lectures are a national treasure and should be archived for posterity
@nilsa3154
@nilsa3154 2 жыл бұрын
Wow. I am working on a presentation over Charles and Ray Eames for my carpentry class and I got so invested in the topic that I had to watch this video. (it's 2.30 am now) I am just really amazed of how thoughtful their designs were and I feel like I've never seen the phrase "form follows function" fitting as well as here. I am really intrigued to explore some more industrial design. Thanks a lot for the effort you put in this video. Greetings from Germany!
@geofflethbridge8732
@geofflethbridge8732 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the interesting lectures. It's almost 2023 and Covd is still isolating us, but it also has resulted in this opportunity to learn and broaden our view of the world. Thank you A less isolated engineer
@FirstWorlder
@FirstWorlder 3 жыл бұрын
Back forty years ago when I was sitting in my history of ID classes they were taught by an older gentleman who was the dean of the school. He was a wealth of information, particularly because many of those designers we discussed were his contemporaries. But interesting as his lectures were they were nothing compared to what you present here. Thank you.
@virginiacharlotte7007
@virginiacharlotte7007 3 жыл бұрын
The grammar lessons are the BOMB! I find this lecture series to be very impactful. Mr Bird'S videos are totes addicting! :P
@Daak32145
@Daak32145 Жыл бұрын
Amazing lecture. Thank you for sharing
@keeferhuges307
@keeferhuges307 Жыл бұрын
Bless you for the kind comments about Levittown housing, that it combines something of the shared experience of an apartment building, with some feeling of independent living. I'm so tired of posh planners dumping on suburbia. I have to think that small houses, combined with lots that are thickly planted with fruit, flowers and veg and herbs, is one of the most efficient, and most humane landscapes we've managed yet. I speak from experience. Here I am, in the ruins of just such a 1950s 'tract', now being 'redeveloped' to monster-houses with three or four times the footprint, and none of the fruitful, beautiful, intelligent and supremely local, use of fertile land. One could substitute, in these days, grouped family 'compounds' of e.g. an even smaller Mainhouse, minimal Granny-Flat, tiny Lodger/Guest accommodation? To take care of the Oldies, raise our 1.6 Child, and get a small revenue from B&B, or Student, or if absolutely necessary, AirBnB. Oh, I have a whole dissertation. Where can I put it? Who will listen? k
@vanessaruiz2298
@vanessaruiz2298 2 жыл бұрын
This is SO GOOD. Thank you for sharing!
@RafaelEncinas94
@RafaelEncinas94 3 жыл бұрын
Loved this videos! Thanks for sharing!
@sinlokemp
@sinlokemp 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I’m reading ‘An Eames Primer’ currently.
@williamhardaway4432
@williamhardaway4432 Жыл бұрын
The Eames' are such an inspiration.
@JavierLopez-iy1xt
@JavierLopez-iy1xt 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the vid.
@HomeBuiltByHoward
@HomeBuiltByHoward 4 жыл бұрын
As a note: In 1945 Vannevar Bush described what he-called the “Memex”, a single device that would store all books, records and communications, and mechanically link them together by association. This concept was then used to formulate the idea of “hypertext” (a term coined two decades later), which in turn guided the development of the World Wide Web (developed another two decades later). I wonder if Charles wouldn't have been aware of this information.
@fmls8266
@fmls8266 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for these lectures, I'm studying for entering Milano's Politecnico school of design and this is surely helping!
@lamerda9706
@lamerda9706 2 жыл бұрын
(I’m a Poli student reviewing these for class! Good luck man!)
@rafaelasalgueiro7100
@rafaelasalgueiro7100 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Matthewww you are the best!! Hugs from brasil
@_swedenotswiss267
@_swedenotswiss267 2 жыл бұрын
I’m recently reading the book of Eames by Gloria Koenig and I’m so thankful that you sharing more personal experiences and historical background than the book. It really helped me to understand how and why are their design so powerful. I also love your humor! Hahahah😂 Thank you for spending time to make and upload such a inspiriting video.
@HistoryofID
@HistoryofID 2 жыл бұрын
You might enjoy An Eames Primer by Eames Demitrios, Charles's grandson. It focuses more on how and why they worked and is more complete in its message than other books.
@_swedenotswiss267
@_swedenotswiss267 2 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryofID Very much appreciate your recommendation! Gonna check it out now! 😍
@Quintopia1
@Quintopia1 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this
@nordfaen
@nordfaen 2 жыл бұрын
Thank YOU very much 😁
@yu199069
@yu199069 3 жыл бұрын
For the gramma part on how to use the apostrophe "s" , I remember my Uni teacher did the exact same thing in the class : )
@desmonian3672
@desmonian3672 3 жыл бұрын
Pog champ
@muchalova
@muchalova 4 жыл бұрын
Hello Matthew. Just discovered your youtube videos and i'm currently watching your Eames series. I'm very much enjoying your videos and I plan on watching the others you've made. I'm at the part of this video regarding the "skunk" skin that you were referring to. You were wondering why they would use skunk fur back in the 40's. It's actually not skunk but it was called "slunk". Here's a definition of slunk skin... (Slunk skin, a product used in furniture making, is the skin of an animal born prematurely or abortively.) Or an unborn calf as most people call it. It was commonly used due to the softness of this skin/ hide as oppose to using the adult cow skin/hide. Nowadays this would be considered un-PC but it was very popular back then. I love to connect with you so send me a message or DM me if that's possible. I know we'll have a lot to talk about regarding the Eameses....... PS. it's (mine bicycle). Inside joke, for those who watched til the end of this video will understand. ;-)
@hye3551
@hye3551 3 жыл бұрын
cool!
@keeferhuges307
@keeferhuges307 Жыл бұрын
Beg pardon; third glass of wine. k
@keeferhuges307
@keeferhuges307 Жыл бұрын
Oh! the blissful grammar lesson. And you, blissful Man, never ever using the word 'like' unless it was 'like' the mot juste, and not just 'like' a spacer. Clear language. So restful not having to parse out the meaning from all the noise. So sorry for the little children who are being taught by 'like' teachers?.... and all that that implies. (Pace, the excellent teachers we all know.) k
@philippesauvie639
@philippesauvie639 Жыл бұрын
Nothing cringe worthy here. Their relationship worked just fine. Women can choose to work behind or with a man if they would prefer and vice versa. Right Bill Clinton? Now back to Design!😊
@WTFisupDennys
@WTFisupDennys Жыл бұрын
Good video. 👍
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