The Genius of Design (BBC)

GarethW · May 17, 2010

Anyone in the UK might want to check out this new TV series "The Genius of Design" (BBC Two, 7:30pm on Saturdays). The first episode (summary below) explores the origins of industrial design / mass production. Quite inspiring to watch, in fact (I feel like going and designing a teapot or something now!) If you missed the episodes you can view it on iPlayer (Link below)

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... or_Living/

Synopsis of episode 1

In the crisis-stricken decades of the 1920s and 1930s, with the world at the tipping point between two global wars, design suggested dramatically different ideas about the shape of things to come, from the radical futurism of the Bauhaus to the British love affair with mock-Tudor architecture and the three-piece suite.

In Europe, the 'modern movement' promoted the virtues of the machine and the machine-made with theories and products like open-plan living, the fitted kitchen and tubular steel furniture which have become absorbed into the mainstream of the designed world. In the USA, designers like Raymond Loewy and Henry Dreyfuss explored and exploited the dreams and desires of American consumers to develop a market-based approach to design which has become one of the bedrocks of the modern consumer society. Featuring Niels Diffrient and Tom Dyckhoff.
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Camid · May 18, 2010

I know what you mean Gareth - a great program. A wonderful insight into industrial design. I thought the section on the Dreyfuss 500 desk phone was really good (http://www.pedlars.co.uk/page_1679.html). Far more enlightening than watching Seymour & Powell and their 'Designs on your...' series for channel 4 a few years ago.

Looking forward to next week's program.

GarethW · May 21, 2010

I see that the BBC are releasing the series on DVD in a few weeks time.

Link: http://www.bbcshop.com/History/The-Geni ... nvt/av9799

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