Walter Darwin Teaque (1883-1960) was one of the earliest professional industrial designers in the United States and was a very successful graphic designer. His design career has a very close relationship with Kodak, the world's largest photographic equipment company. In 1927, Kodak designed a camera package. In 1936, Kodak's "Banteng" camera was designed. This was the earliest portable camera. The camera's basic components were compressed to a basic level, providing a prototype and development for a modern 35mm camera. basis. He works closely with technical personnel and is good at using the aesthetics of exterior design to solve functional and technical difficulties. This is an important feature of American industrial designers. Tigger developed a design system to develop the design of the entire product line for the company. This design method made him one of the most successful industrial designers in the early US. In 1955, Tig's design company cooperated with Boeing's design team to complete the design of Boeing's 707 large-scale jet airliner, making the Boeing aircraft not only have a concise, modern appearance, but also created a classic modern indoor passenger aircraft design.
Raymond Loeway (1889~1986) Lovi was born in Paris, France and later moved to the United States. He is one of the important founders of industrial design in the United States. He has been engaged in industrial product design, packaging design and graphic design (especially corporate image design) throughout his life. Thousands of projects were involved, from Coca-Cola bottles to NASA's "airborne." The Laboratory's "plan", from the cigarette case to the interior cabin of the "Concorde" aircraft, was designed to be extremely extensive, representing the omnipresent features of the first generation of American industrial designers, and has achieved amazing commercial benefits. Rowe began designing locomotives, cars, ships and other means of transportation in the 1930s, introducing streamlined features, which led to a streamlined style. He highly specialized and commercialized the design, making his design company one of the world's largest design companies in the 20th century. He is not only interested in industrial technology, but also has a deep understanding and pursuit of human visual sensitivity. His design has both industrial characteristics and human touch. His life was the epitome and portrayal of the entire process of the beginning and development of industrial design in the United States, reaching the peak and gradually declining. Luo Wei has numerous honors throughout his life. He was the first designer to be used as a cover character by Times. Lovi played a very important role in promoting the development of industrial design in the United States. His long working life, his professionalism, and his commitment to the image of the design community, especially the image of his own company and the perseverance of his own personal image, all stood up. Born a very important influence.
Henry Dreyfess (1903-1972) Dreyfus' career background was stage design. In 1929, he changed his specialty and established his own industrial design office. Dreyves had a close relationship with Bell Telephone Company throughout his life and was the most important designer influencing the modern telephone form. Graves began designing telephones for Bell in 1930. In 1937, he proposed a design combining the handset and the microphone. In his long-term cooperation with Bell, he designed more than 100 kinds of telephones. Dreyfus telephones thus entered millions of households in the United States and the world, becoming the basic facilities of a modern family. Graves's strong belief is that the design must meet the basic requirements of the human body. He believes that human-adapted machines are the most efficient machines. He devoted himself to the study of human body data and the proportions and functions of the human body for many years. These research works were summarized in his 1961 book, "Human Body Measurement," which helped the design community lay the discipline of ergonomics. His research results are embodied in a series of agricultural machinery he developed for John Deere company since 1955. These designs have created a center around the establishment of comfortable and ergonomic calculation-based driving conditions. A kind and efficient image.
Saarinen (1910-1961) Saarinen is a famous American architectural designer and industrial designer. He was born in Kekelumi in Finland. He displayed his design genius in his early years and won the first place in Swedish matchbox design in 1922. In April 1923, he immigrated to the United States with his father and settled in Detroit. He graduated from the Department of Architecture of Yale University. In 1940, Eames designed the chair to win the International Modern Furniture Design Competition held by the New York Museum of Modern Art. In the 1940s Saarinen cooperated with Noel in furniture design. Representatives include No. 71 fiberglass-reinforced plastic molded chair, fetal chair, and Jerkin botanical chair. These works all show organic free forms rather than stereotypes and cold. Geometry, known as the masterpiece of organic modernism, has become a model in the history of industrial design and is still widely circulated and used. Saarinen’s architectural masterpieces include the Jefferson Memorial, the Yale Ice Skating Rink, the Moss and Steyr Academy, the U.S. Embassy in London, the U.S. Embassy in Norway, the Milwaukee War Memorial, the CBS Building, and the Universal Airlines. Terminals and so on.
Graves (1934 -) American architect Graves is one of the important figures who laid the postmodern architectural design. Graves was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and graduated from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio in 1958 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree. In 1959 he earned a master's degree from the prestigious Harvard Graduate School of Design. After that, he entered the American Academy of Rome, Italy, and won the Grand Prix of Rome and the Bruno Scholarship. His designs pay attention to the richness of decoration, the richness of colors, and the eclectic expression of historical styles. Many designs are regarded as representative works of post-modernism, and they combine the double skills of painters and architects. His most important and most influential design was the public service center of Portland City, designed from 1980 to 1982. The square has a simple and colorful decoration on the surface of the building. Philip Johnson, a postmodern architect, highly praised this design for boldly adopting various classical decorative motives, especially the extensive use of classical design vocabulary, to enable the design to escape the monolithic limitations of internationalism and move toward a new development of pluralism and decorativeism. Graves designed a series of buildings in the late 1980s and 1990s, such as the Humanities Building in Louisville, Kentucky, and the public library in San Juan Capistrano, California. An outstanding representative of modernism. Graves also designed a series of metal utensils with great post-modern features for the Italian company Alessi.
Charles Eames (1907-1978) Eames was one of the most distinguished and influential minor furniture and interior design masters in the United States. He studied architecture at the University of Washington in St. Louis, and began working in 1936. One of America's most famous design institutes, Suixi College teaches. In 1940, the plywood chair he designed with Saarinen won a prize in the design competition organized by the American Museum of Modern Art. Eames' design has the structure, function, and appearance that conforms to the principles of science and industrial design. This feature has become the design feature of Miller Company that he worked with so that Miller can be invincible in the market. Ground. In 1946, his popular low-cost chair designed with multi-layer plywood hot press molding process was a major turning point in modern design of Miller Company. It was becoming lighter, more popular, and focused on new materials and their production processes. He is a generalist in design. Apart from product design, he also engages in graphic design, display design and photography. He has managed to link these disciplines in his own design to form an edge disciplined industrial design. Eames designed the interior, seats, etc. have a considerable influence in the entire world, many of the works are still continuing production and popular. The recliner he designed in 1956 was the most outstanding representative of the recliner design. The public chairs designed by him in the airport terminal are simple and strong, with a strong sense of the times, and are still used by most US airports. They are outstanding representatives of the United States in the 1970s.
Venturi (1925-) American architectural designer Venturi is the first person to lay the foundation for postmodernism in architectural design. From 1943 to 1950, Venturi studied at the Princeton Architecture Department and later worked in the offices of Saarinen and Luis Conn. In 1969, he proposed the principle of "less is tedious," and challenged modernism with "less is more". Venturi does not oppose the core content of modernism. His efforts lie in changing the monotonous and formal features of modernism. His design contains a large number of clear classical architectural features, such as arch vouchers, triangular thresholds, etc. But his overall design is still functional, pragmatic, simple and clear. Venturi attaches great importance to theoretical research. He is one of the more important theorists of postmodernist designers. In 1966, he published "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture". In 1972, he published "Learning to Las Vegas" and put forward his own postmodernism principles. He believes that designers should not neglect to ignore the various cultural characteristics in contemporary society, but should fully absorb the current variety of cultural phenomena and characteristics into their own designs. Venturi's masterpieces include the Delaware House designed in 1978, the Saint Spy Hall of the National Art Museum in London, and the Gordon Wu Building of Princeton University. Venturi's greatest achievements in the area of ​​product design were the series of chairs he designed for Noel, a silver-plated coffee set with ebony handles designed for the Italian company Alesi in 1983, and Swade in 1984-86. · A set of porcelain designed by Powell, a "Cuckoo" watch designed for Alessi Company in 1986, and some interesting jewellery designed for Clito Munari. These designs all have strong postmodern features.
Frank Lioyd Wright (1869~1959) Wright studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin in 1885-1887 and served as a renowned architect Sullivan from 1887-1893. Wright is one of the most important architects in the 20th century in the United States and enjoys a good reputation in the world. Many buildings he designed received widespread praise and were valuable treasures in modern architecture. Wright has a great influence on modern architecture, but his architectural ideas and the representative figures of the new European architectural movement are obviously different. He takes a unique path. In the 10 years after 1893, Wright designed many small houses and villas in the Midwestern United States, forming the style of "grassland-style dwellings." His masterpieces included the 1902 Wilsonite Residence, the Roberts Residence, and the 1908 Robbie House. Wait. These dwellings not only have the tradition of American folk architecture, but also break through the closedness and are suitable for the climate and the sparsely populated character of the U.S. grassland in the Midwest. In 1904, the Lajin company building was designed. In 1915, the Tokyo Imperial Hotel was designed to give him an international reputation. In 1936, Wright designed a flowing villa and created an unprecedented architectural scene that became his model of "organic architecture." The American Architecture Encyclopedia commented: "It must be admitted that Wright was one of the most creative architects of his era and perhaps any era. He