History of ID Week 1: Intro. What is Industrial Design?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- 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 TH-cam. 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 TH-cam instead of teaching you themselves. Just saying...
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You are doing God's work with this course. Empowering so many people with great information. I'm finding this two years later and it hasn't lost an ounce of value.
I would like to thank you mister Bird, I never thought I would find such a high quality class on ID on the internet
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been glued to this channel during lockdown and now I'm wishing I was 30 years younger and a student at RISD. What a great educator. Thank you for these brilliant talks.
(and I hope we'll see a video on Baroness Gisela Josephine von Krieger.....)
Me too. I'm wishing I had gone to design school, and then remember I have no creativity whatsoever. It's great having these lessons available
Same.
This comment makes me so happy and remind me of being so so lucky.
Matt Bird is the best teacher out there. I took his classes in 2014-2016 + am so happy others have the privilege to learn from him now too.
@@finolacat8355 everyone is creative! Design school helps teach how to see the world + approach problems with a new mindset :)
@@lilliankrieger9867 I agree with your comment that everyone has creativity.
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I LOVE to learn. My mother always told me, "Even if you think you did not learn something new, you actually learned something."
This set of videos has been helping to explain a BUNCH of concepts and important time frames of the past, that is now filled in better.
For instance: I learned that the industrial revolution was precluded by ELECTRICITY experiments of the late 1700s to early 1800s. Without those scientists, we would not have better ways to produce these things that you discuss in your class.
For some reason, I had ut in my mind that in the late 1800s, there was no indoor plumbing, or natural gas feeding into homes. I suppose my ideas were based on when my Aunt and Uncle's farm had access to modern amenities... even in the early 1970s, one of the farm houses still had an out house... we lived there for a couple of years, just after I was potty 'trained. What an weird time... they had the "deluxe outhouse". It had two big holes and a small hole, just big enough that I would not fall into the cess-pit.
I loved your tour of all the tools in the shop. Thank you for sharing these classes with the world at large.
You’re back?!?! So delighted to now see the start of your course.
Utterly Brilliant! I applaud the attempt to get the audience but to think ...not just learn. How many lecture courses have people listening to them for pleasure? But I confess I watch these for the pure joy of learning. Bravo!
If anything good came out of the pandemic, it's videos like this. Stumbled across the section on art deco because I've always had a passing interest in that style of art and design, and came out wanting to learn more and having a bunch of different threads to pursue to do so, and just want to thank you for uploading these videos.
I'm a 22 y.o. mexican engineering student. I was watching a TH-cam channel about the interwar years and what lead to the second world war. I don't know how I stumbled upon this channel but I am very glad I did. This is fantastic.
If someone ever asks me who my favorite instructor is, I'll probably say Matthew Bird. That's not to knock the instructors whose classes I've paid to attend - they're incredible too! I just mean to say Prof Bird is the best among the best!
Love love love your channel! 💐 I love the Decorative Arts, Design, Art, History, Architecture, Historic/Historical Preservation of everything (film, music, etc.) Everything from the Turn of the Century to the 1940’s. Especially history of the Gilded Age, WW1, (not the War itself but the time period and how it affected the World) DADA movement and everything it represented and created as an expression of (the disgust) WWI. I apologize for my overwhelming thoughts. Just wanted to let you know how much these beautiful, timeless, and precious “gifts” fill my heart 💜 I could have just said Thank You for sharing your education and information to the public so we can all understand, appreciate, and value the beauty💐
I am so happy to see the first lessons of your course uploaded! Thanks for your great work, Matthew!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this class online. I did not realize how much I wanted to learn about ID until I watched this first video. Thank you, Mr Bird for giving me the opportunity to learn what you have to teach!🌸
Than you for this great series of lectures on the history of industrial design! I have been interested in this topic for over 30 years and you have provided numerous insights that frame the topic in a context that would have otherwise taken a lifetime to fully realize! I really appreciate you and the effort you put into making this terrific video series!
Thank You, Thank You,,,,,,,Thank You!
This is so fascinating. I love the way you are presenting this information.
I love your going back & giving credit to people who were instrumental in the events without even being known to the world. The unsung heroes. The average person just wanting to make an easier way of doing things.
Thru the miracle of "click-bait", I started watching Art Nouveau, but it lead me to start at the beginning & am currently watching all in the series.
I was a Mechanical Drafter in the 1970s, 1980s & 1990s when the field was not popular for females.
I liked seeing the 'pieces' that eventually made the 'whole'. ie.....all the components of a stapler. We take it for granted, but someone invented it piece by piece, often from something someone else did long ago.
I made the pretty pictures of those things. And it was Art. I still like that kind of art. When the mechanism was on the outside of the box, not tucked in & sealed shut assuming the outside shell was more beautiful than the mechanics. Steampunk is a big passion at the moment.
....back to video watching & learning.
New subscriber.....Karen
Oh man, I found this presentation today. I love it. Because I love design. I’m 62 and just recently, late in life, have found a new - to me, world through collecting mid century modern furniture. Also, I would really enjoy a presentation on the history of mid century furniture and design! And danish designers! Damn....all of it!
Thank you so much for these wonderful classes! I’m from China and it’s really wonderful to hear you talk about the contributions China had to ID. Paper making and the bronze vessels were taught in middle school but only from a historical perspective.
Dear Mr. Bird, thank you for your amazing videos. I have absolutely loved watching them over the years. Your perspective, knowledge and inclusion make for fascinating and informative lectures that I come back to often.
Thank you for sharing these.. I'm not a student anymore, but this material is fascinating and I love the general POV that there's nothing new under the sun!
You are amazing. I am lucky I found you. please share with us more. Maybe you can talk about interior design and architecture all are connected.
If you can talk more about the middle east . Or is this will be us telling the story of the design there.
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Please do more ..don't stop
(For me the written text of ur talk is very important, only this way I can follow you..if you can add it to all your lectures would be great)
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Amazing lecturer. He changed my life.
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Im studying woodworking and I already finished my masters in art history. Im trying to combine my knowledge of these two fields so I started picking up on the history of ID again. This channel seems like it will help a ton. The first lecture is very very promising and the fact that the video doesnt get interrupted by the adds is beyond wonderful. Thank you very much and see you in the next one!
The only thing that exceeds your honesty is your clarity.
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This is my first of, Since I’m hooked now, many.
( I always thought I had a grasp of design fundamentals but now realizing I didn’t even have any hands )
That us the best lecture that I have ever listened to. Detailed, but not tedious. Broad, but not meandering.
I'm so happy I came across this video! I did a master's degree in history of design last year, and I really wish I learnt more things like you're talking about rather than just lots of anthropology and theory. This video series is fantastic. Thank you so much for making it available!
I found this site about a year ago and just shared it with a friend. I have to complement you on your fine work and wit. Please keep up this fine work!
OMG, your class is amazing! So glad I found it. 30 years sooner would have been even better. I love how you are trying to instill a sense of perspective to your students that goes beyond just the creative and economic aspects of designing, but also highlights the potential social and even political impact.
I loved your lecture. Great way to understand our world. In light of the pandemic, You were brilliant when you said “We’re only really smart when something is trying to kill us.” Great instructor, plus your naturally funny. I look forward to watching the rest of the videos. I hope you keep on making videos.
These videos are EXCELLENT. You have a very rigorous yet open and rhizomatic way of presenting these concepts and I am here for it. This is an area of deep passion for me and you have blown my mind on several occasions. THANK YOU!
I really appreciate you doing this and sharing this!
This is so good. Looking forward to watching the rest of these videos over the next few days
I think that your whole series is lovely. I have always appreciated the courses in Industrial Design that were part of my program in Industrial Arts Education at San Jose State University.
Have to agree with the recent comments, the information, perspective and humor of this course is absolutely great. As an obsessive consumer of MOOC type content this really stands out for me. I hope you decide to make more some day!
I totally enjoyed every lecture. You made them interesting by supplying many illustrations and videos. I especially liked the eloquent way you linked the main achievements and that you repeatedly made reference to those that never get credit but do most of the work.
Thank you for producing, editing and making them available.
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As an interior arch student..... THANK YOU!!!!
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Janosch Weddeling I assumed he was trying to induce madness. My bad
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I'm just starting design at SFSU and I hope to meet you one day , I appreciate your passion it is very inspiring, thank you.
Taking this course for fun and I'm looking forward to getting through to the end.
That k you so much for uploading these on TH-cam😭 💙
Absolut Master Storyteller and Teacher Matthew Bird Im happy to have found this channel while looking for ArtDeco and ID. You teach through a world history with thought and function I look forward to many more videos!!
Innovation is not an activity of a collective or a team anymore than it is an activity of an individual. It is an activity of multiple talented geniuses, often working as individuals not as a team.
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Great lesson, thank you very much. Just a two appreciation.
Parchment paper is said to have been invented the 2nd century BC and papyrus 3,000 BC and lets not go into clay tablets.
Rome fell in 1453 with the fall of Constantinople, last bastion of the Roman Empire.
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I enjoy all of your videos - so interesting, especially the Art Deco. I am not one of your students and came upon the video through an art search.
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Thank you for doing this series, there are not enough videos on ID on the internet.
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Great video!
Nice video, Matthew. One of my students from Adv Design Offsite posted this in our slack :-)
That's GREAT! I am JUST finishing the last one now and then the whole class is recorded!
Yay!!!! I'm so glad you're uploading these lectures!!!
This is quite possibly the best video I have watched on TH-cam. Very Well Done!
(And the only good thing that has come out of this COVID mess we find ourselves in)
I do have one question - would it be possible for you to list some or all of the books the students are reading?
Happy to! There really isn't any one textbook for an ID history class. We use a combo. The Industrial Design Reader, Carma Gorman is an amazing primary source collection that gives all the thinking and important ideas. Industrial Design A to Z, Charlotte and Peter Fiell, is a big dictionary of beautiful pictures and brief summaries which gives a broad overview. The two combined, I HOPE, give a sense of what happened and why.
Love this series! I watched a few later ones, and am now starting at the beginning -Thank you for making this public! It makes me feel like I am back in college and would sometimes sneak into other lecture classes when I had artist block just to sketch while having someone talk about something important in the background. Is the large timeline available anywhere? I would love to see it in its fullness! Also I wrote this quote on a notecard and will probably use it sometime "History favors the lone genius, but reality requires decades and casts of thousands to bring innovation to life." I study voice technology and I can say that is entirely true!
Thanks for the enthusiasm! Here's the timeline:
historyofid.com/download/timeline.2017.pdf
@@HistoryofID 🤯🙌🙏 this is brilliant (and my first ever comment on YT)
Thank you for sharing! Enjoyed it a lot.
Thank you so much
next semester if you do this again, you should have a heap of images that appear 1 by 1 like Mahjong. The scrolling images hurt my eyes a little.
Thank you !!
Matthew, may I have a link the the wonderful chart you've created? I want to share it with my students.
Sorry it took me so long to reply; I had to figure out the best place to park this for you: historyofid.com/download/timeline.2017.pdf
Thank you
Thank you so much professor
Could you also post the reading materials these videos are meant to be pared with? Or give links
We use two text books: The Industrial Design Reader (editor Carma Gorman) which is all primary source writings, and Industrial Design A to Z (Charlotte and Peter Fiell) a sort of overview with lots of pictures.
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Thank you very much for the response: do you have specialized sources for ID theory someone persistent enough could obtain?
I'm obsessed with timelines and maps, do you have a way to view your fantastic timeline from the video?
Sure!!! I put it here for you: historyofid.com/download/timeline.2017%20(1).pdf
Edison also had, possibly, hundreds of people working for him. Edison and Westinghouse were businessmen who also made their employees NOT take credit for their own work... they took their employees' work and labeled it as their own. They were NOT geniuses, they were businessmen!
Amazing. Very fortunate to be able to watch through these and learn. *Is the time diagram at 23:03 available online?
Hi, I don't know if he would have read and answered your comment but just in case, here's the link he sent to another person asking for the same thing: historyofid.com/download/timeline.2017.pdf
I hope you can learn a lot from it.
Thank you for this!!
“Don’t know why it important but it is important for me to tell you about first female US Industrial designer” you are part of the Woke culture. And that I why we all need to know about.
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God bless you
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Can't believe you left Lewis Harold Latimer out of the lightbulb story. :-(
Marketing someone else's invention definitely isn't inventing it
I so wish you would do your not-obvious-landmarks of ID, ID of the mundane -- the contact lenses, the teabags, all of that. I mean I'm sitting here looking at my Nescafé world mug and it's a compelling thing, it's not fancy, people keep rescuing it from oblivion, and I can't find anything about who made it or why -- it's a promotional mug that hasn't even got the company's name on it and yet it did the promotional job. Casio solar pocket calculators. Dansk cheese slicers. Poang chairs. Those horrible plastic fold-up rain bonnets. Leatherette coin purses. Blue books. Tram tickets. Carabiners, which weren't a thing for people who weren't riggers until about 25 years ago, and since then they've been ubiquitous. The pay telephone. Masking tape, why does it still not work, who keeps buying it? Why did Danskin colors vanish? Anyway. If you made videos about the ordinary things you care about I would watch them all.
Came for industrial design not a narrative. Ohwell
32:32 🤍
Came for the industrial design and stayed for the woke pandering.
Never wake the panda!!!! Best to let it sleep..
I don't disagree with his points, but still wanted more ID and less politics.
The hard part of telling global design is that for so long, certain parts of the world were separate, so you can't tell them in a timeline fashion concurrently. You'd be skipping around too much. Later on, it becomes more globally interconnected, but the ideas and threads themselves split and fracture so much that that just talking about, say, mid century modern, you have the danish/Scandinavian take on it, which was one thing, the American version which was different, the Japanese version, and so on, meanwhile just one designer is pulling from Mexican influences and another is french, and so on and so on... Concurrently, you'll have another design movement going either going on or splitting off and it's this huge web of influence.
ID itself is hard to explain because it's a field that is incredibly cross disciplinarian. Materials, aesthetics, ergonomics, manufacturing and cost accounting are just a few fields you need to dabble in to understand it.
Also I would say that the 20th century was when it exploded and went truly global (as did everything else), and the 40's through 70's was kind of it's golden age, which was right during/after the aforementioned new global community and sudden investment/improvement in materials development, technological discovery, and revolutions in manufactury.
By the 80's it felt like designing new got harder, and though we talk of globalization happening in the 90's and on, this is more about maturing supply chains for efficiencies and McDonalds and coca cola becoming worldwide dominating the world, and actually you have a flattening out of the uniqueness of culture. The internet didn't help either. Since the 90's we've become a global monoculture of sorts, which means less inspiration and sources for hybridization.
The 80's also was probably when we started focusing on materialistic values, meaning rather than liking a nice design and something beautiful and functional, we kind of started judging things on the $$$ value of the materials. Jewelry is all about the glitz. Diamonds and gold. Tables chairs, etc. are judged as "high quality" because it's either mahogany or black walnut. (Sometimes plywood is the superior material). Plastics in high quality unique jewelry would be considered a laughable idea.
On the manufacturing side, we consider cost to price numbers more than we do the use and longevity of products. We're just incredibly focused on profits. R&D departments in corporations are also incredibly starved compared to previous decades.
I mean I got a crash course in ID for work, and I asked about why it stopped in the 80's, but it also took trying to look at design after the 70's myself and notice the rise and fall to get the understanding of why it's not really discussed.
@@SerifSansSerif there are certainly points to disagree with, though in his defense they are not his area. e.g. smallpox allowing europeans to conquer central america with smaller armies; the spaniards enlisted/relied upon the aid of the indigenous enemies of the Aztecs to augment their meager forces. the idea that a handful of conquistadors toppled the Aztec empire has long since been abandoned.
YT algorithm offered up your Week 5 lecture from spring 2020. I loved it so much I’ve come back to Week 1 from the fall 2020. Enjoying the social context introduction! Merci! 🪧 💡
I’m so glad i found this! Thanks for making this accessible for everyone 🥲
Thank you