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Online instructional presentation gregory luna
- 1. Gregory Luna Online Instructional Presentation TECH 521 July 30, 2018
- 2. FUNCTIONAL ART •Utilitarian purpose •for Display
- 3. FUNCTIONAL ART •Utilitarian purpose •for Display •or Use
- 5. THE MODERN CHAIR ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
- 7. Marcel Breuer 1925 Mart Stam
- 10. 1972 Frank Gehry 1987 Samuel Chan
- 16. REFERENCES • Art Institute Chicago. (2016). Design episodes: The modern chair. [Educational website]. Retrieved from http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/design-episodes- modern-chair • Coshamie. (Dec. 29, 2016). A century of chair design history. [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://coshamie.com/history-of-chair-design/ • Kidsthinkdesign. (2012). Interior design. [Educational website]. Retrieved from http://www.kidsthinkdesign.org/interiors/think.html • Kidsthinkdesign. (2012). Think like a designer. [Educational website]. Retrieved from http://www.kidsthinkdesign.org/interiors/think.html
Editor's Notes
- The lesson this presentation surrounds is on a specific kind of functional art. Functional art is art that is created with a utilitarian purpose, this means in some way the art is a tool, machine or can perform some purpose. Functional art can be as mentioned useful, perhaps the work of art is made from wood, stitched leather and stamps, then assembled into a very decorative chest. It could be simply for display.
- Or it could be for use. Guess it depends on the works’ importance or price.
- This piece of functional art was designed in 2007 by Jacob Jorgensen. What do you think it functions as? (pause) You’re right! It is a chair. What gave it away?
- Here is a video from the good people at the Art Institute of Chicago.
- To put modern chair designing into a historical context, the most common folding chair design was done up in 1911 by Nathaniel Alexander. The design that he patented also had a holder on the back to hold something. Do you know what for? (pause) It would also explain who he was designing the chair for. (pause) It was for his church in Lynchburg, Virginia.
- In 1925, two important chairs were created at Germany’s Bauhaus School of Design: Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair and Mart Stam’s Cantilever Chair. Breuer’s was the first to use polished tubular steel, Stam was awarded the patent for cantilever chairs for his design (Coshamie, 2016).
- In 1928, Le Corbusier designed three versions of this chair, this is le Petit Confort. Like Breuer’s it is an example of the Art Deco movement. Has anyone seen a chair like this before? It is a well known cubular design, though Le Corbusier is know more for his architecture.
- The Ball Chair was designed in Italy by Eero Aarnio and screams Space Age. Italian Futurism is an offshoot of 1960’s modernism, seen in painting and this chair done in 1963. Like the last example, this is based on a form, though this is spherical.
- While the last two were based on forms, Frank Gehry & Samuel Chan’s chairs seem based on what? (pause) I see lines, granted they are like thick and wide noodles or an airplane wing, but both artists seem to be getting back to basics. Would you agree that these are minimalist designs?
- What does this chair remind you of? (pause) Phillip Aduatz crafted a “perfectly functional seating solution that was also highly decorative.” (Coshamie, 2016). His sculptural Spoon Chair was created in 2008.
- Japan’s Nendo Studios developed the optically illusive Thin Black Lines Chair in 2010. This design is just that black lines manipulated into the three dimensional form… a cube.
- While all the chairs we have looked at did perform a function, providing a place to sit, not all of them have other functions. Here is a website with a couple of tabs we are going to look at. The good people at Kidsthinkdesign.org put together a video slideshow of some fun, funky and functional chair designs. (pause) I hope these examples have opened your mind to the possibilities. Right now, we are on the Interior Design tab, next we are going to click over two tabs on the Think Like A Designer. We are going to read the Creating A Color Scheme section and the five Learn The Lingo definitions in the right column.
- Heller’s Joe Lounge Chair is both functional as a chair and is based on a functional object. The Cocoon Chair, from the last slideshow, looked like the Ball Chair with a monitor attached, making it more functional. As you design your chair, you can decide how much functionality you want to add. Will your design be based on something useful from everyday life? Will your chair design perform other functions beyond being somewhere to sit? Are you more concerned with designing something comfortable? or is design your focus and comfort unimportant? Remember, you're the boss.
- We are going to be working on our preliminary sketch work first, please refer to the rubric for all of the details that we are looking for. I’d like to touch base with everyone and see how your first drafts are going this week. As you finish your final versions of your 3-D Chair Designs, photograph your work, upload or email them and share them to the editable slideshow. I will make the links in the slideshow available for you to click on in our GoogleClass site. We will have our critique once all have been added next week.