The Most Copied Design in History Has No Designer
The Museum of Modern Art holds object 150.2005: the GEM Paperclip, 1899, steel, gift of the manufacturer. It credits two designers. One is a British company with no company registration, no trade...
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Nobody Designed the World’s Most Popular Chair | Monobloc
The Monobloc is the world’s most common chair. The cheap white plastic stacking chair found everywhere on Earth. Roughly a billion of them exist, at weddings, roadside cafés, schoolyards and refugee camps...
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When Modernism Went Psychedelic | Verner Panton
For most of the early 1960s, Verner Panton drove around Europe trying to persuade someone to manufacture a chair. Fifteen manufacturers turned him down. One well-known American designer said the thing shouldn’t...
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Monolithic Insanity: A History of Cubicle Design
In 1968, Herman Miller launched Action Office. It made the company hundreds of millions of dollars, transformed how most of the world works, and is still for sale today. The man who...
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The Man Who Invented 80s Design (And Came to Hate It)
In September 1981, Ettore Sottsass sat in a taxi in central Milan and assumed a bomb had gone off. The street was blocked by a crowd of a thousand people. They were...
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How Italy Beat America to the Personal Computer, and Lost It
In 1954, Olivetti bolted a typewriter to a sidewalk on Fifth Avenue and hung a twenty-three-meter sculpture on the wall behind it. This is how an Italian company that treated the way...
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They Designed the iPhone in 1989, Then Lost Everything
In 1989, a man named Marc Porat sketched a device in a red notebook: a thin glass rectangle with no keyboard, a screen you touched, a computer that was also a phone,...
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The Most Enduring Form in Car Design
Cover the badge on a Porsche 911 and you can likely still name it. Almost no other car has kept its shape for so long. This is the story of where that...
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The Device That Started the Loneliness Epidemic | Sony Walkman
In 1979, Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka asked his engineers for a portable cassette player he could use on long flights. What they built changed the way humans occupy public space. The Walkman...
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A look at Gantri’s Digital Manufacturing with Founder Ian Yang
Ian Yang on starting Gantri, a digital manufacturing company. Check out their website: https://www.gantri.com/ Socials: @gantri Positive Space Episode 2 Positive Space is a series of interviews with contemporary designers or people...
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He Put a Tractor Seat on a Spring & Called It Design | Achille Castiglioni
Achille Castiglioni (1918–2002) won Italy’s Compasso d’Oro nine times. Fourteen of his works sit in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. In 1997, MoMA gave him the first individual...
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Why Simplicity and Minimalism Are Not the Same Thing
Konstantin Grcic is one of the most influential industrial designers alive. His work sits in the permanent collections of MoMA and the Centre Pompidou. He’s won the Compasso d’Oro three times. He’s...
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The Designer Who Refused to Be Called a Designer
Arne Jacobsen was a Danish architect who refused to call himself a designer, yet he created some of the most iconic furniture of the twentieth century. The Egg, The Swan, The Ant,...
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Did IKEA Democratize Design, or Kill It?
IKEA went from a mail-order business selling pens and stockings in rural Sweden, to the largest furniture company on earth. They had a core philosophy of the democratization of design from early...
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The Designer Who Makes You Forget Design | Naoto Fukasawa
Naoto Fukasawa is one of the world’s most influential designers—yet his greatest achievement is creating objects you never consciously notice. From the iconic MUJI wall-mounted CD player to the INFOBAR phone that...
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Why the Best Design Goes Unnoticed | Jasper Morrison
Jasper Morrison believes the best design is the design you don’t notice at all. Born in London in 1959, Morrison has spent his career creating objects so perfectly resolved they seem inevitable....
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How Muji Built a Global Brand by Rejecting Branding
Founded in 1980 during Japan’s bubble economy, Mujirushi Ryohin (no-brand quality goods) built a retail company on three manufacturing principles: material selection, process streamlining, and packaging simplification. This video explores Muji’s design...
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The Designer Who Saved Apple from Bankruptcy | Jony Ive
For more than two decades, Jony Ive shaped how billions of people interact with technology. As Apple’s Chief Design Officer, he helped define the visual and physical language of the iMac, iPod,...
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Ray and Charles Eames | The Designers Who Shaped Modern America | Design Docs | #design#architecture
Charles and Ray Eames transformed modern design. Their furniture, films, and architecture redefined how people live with objects and ideas. From the molded plywood experiments of the 1940s to the iconic Eames...
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The Woman Who Helped to Define Modernism | Eileen Gray | Design Docs #industrialdesign#architecture
Eileen Gray was one of the most innovative and overlooked figures in modern design. Her furniture, interiors, and architecture broke conventions and helped shape modernism as we know it. This video explores...
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The Father of Industrial Design | Dieter Rams | Design Docs #industrialDesign #Design#designhistory
Dieter Rams changed the way the world thinks about design. His work for Braun and Vitsoe shaped everything from modern electronics to the way we use rational design today. This video explores...
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Why Right to Repair Is Hard, Even for Companies That Want It
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The Most Controversial Bauhaus Designer? | Marcel Breuer | History, Work, and Legacy | Design Docs
Marcel Breuer was one of the most famous designers to come out of the Bauhaus. While most know him for his model B3 chair (also known as the Wassily chair), he had...
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These are the Only Fonts You Need | A Few Basic Typefaces Documentary | Lella and Massimo Vignelli
One of the most controversial things Massimo Vignelli had ever said was that in design we only need a few basic typefaces to be successful. If you don’t know the Vignelli’s, they...
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