The First Modern Art? A Design Revolution “Art Nouveau” is directly translated as New Art but no where except for France was this new style ever referred to as New Art. Instead, Art Nouveau had local names or terms used in various nations and in several...
Precursors to Modernity: Arts and Crafts: Arts & Crafts In 1851 in London, in Hyde Park to be precise, in a huge glass palace that looked like an overgrown greenhouse, The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations opened on the first of May. Planned...
An English Movement Reforming Taste and Defining Design At the end of the nineteenth century, it was understood that product design, for lack of a better term, needed to be “reformed.” The first salvo was from William Morris (1843-1896) and the Arts and Crafts...
Before Art Nouveau Educating the Consumers for the “House Beautiful” Before Industrial Design, was a practice that we today would refer to as “Product Design,” encompassing both “hard” goods and “soft goods” and home...
How to Say “Hello” Designing the Telephone “Telephone,” as a word, is, of course, related to “telegraph,” an existing technology, which also transmitted signals. The word fragment “tele” is from a Greek word meaning “distance,” and “phone,” also a Greek...
Building a Concept Understanding “Horseless” After a stuttering following the Great War, the slow economic recovery began. Even in Germany, where the financial situation was uncertain in the best of times and catastrophic in the worst years, the number of...
