History of design is a theme not only interesting, but also important enough both for the skilled, advanced modern interior designers and for beginning designers. Addressing to a history, we can find a plenty of the curious facts and useful information (Charles Eames and Herman Hertzberger). Probably, from time to time we shall come back to old events, the periods and people that have generated that world which part is the design for web, screen design.
Designers at all times faced the same problems that the modern interior designers solve - how to execute sound, convenient in using, the durable product, which its real and potential consumers will want to use. The theory of design is a system of the experience saved up by centuries on improvement of the world surrounding us - from kitchen devices up to spacecrafts, from conceptual development up to a production line.
This experience is based on a quantity of the developments executed by separate people, approved and accepted in using by the mass consumer. You guess that the cup has handle sideways, a saucepan from both sides, and a teapot at the top. All this is not so simple, someone has thought it up, has put into practice, and such decision appeared convenient for the majority of users particularly!
However, the intuitive acceptance of experience is allowable for the consumer, but not for the developer. The modern interior designers need a lot of the ordered information, as a rule. The history of design is exciting, since Socrates up to Bauhaus. We shall continue the review of the most outstanding persons, schools and organizations.
The most well-known design magazine celebrates the anniversary this year - 70 years (the Swedish magazine ?Form?). This magazine was based in 1845 by the Union of friends to handicraft crafts of Sweden. The founder of this organization was Monsoon, the outstanding and versatile Swedish scientist, the engineer, the critic, the researcher of ancient Swedish culture, the archeologist and the public figure. The Swedish union is the oldest in the world organization of modern interior designers!
Let's familiarize today with these masters about design. It will be interesting for all.
Is the design the expression of art (one of forms of art)? Design is the expression of a plan. Subsequently (at accordingly high level) it can be estimated as art. Is the design the art for industrial products? No, it is not. However, the design can be the decision of some industrial problems.
What are the limits of design? They are the same to limits of problems. Is the design the discipline connected only with a certain part of environment? No, it is not. Is it a method of the general expression? No, design is a method of action. Whether there are ethics of design? Are there always the obligatory norms in design? They include ethics. Should the design answer the idea of advantage? Yes, it should. Is the design on manufacture of the subjects intended only for pleasure?
Who can assert, that the pleasure is useless.