The mandatory materials for this week need to be watched, listened to and read in preparation for the seminar.
Chapter 6 from John Heskett’s book Industrial Design. This excerpt is from the Dutch translation and covers the rise of industrial design as a profession. Pay attention to the industrial, technological and economic context in which the profession arose. Enjoy, but don’t worry about all the examples.
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Flatpack Empire is a British documentary television series about IKEA. The three-part series goes behind the scenes of the world’s largest and best-known furniture retailer. What does it take to get new products from initial design to stores around the world?
Next to the mandatory materials, we also would like to show you some other sources that could be great for inspiration. These are not part of the mandatory materials of the course …, but still worth to check out!
Learn about how the company introduced an ethos that is now known as “lean manufacturing”.
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Fascinating article from NY Times documenting the travel of a container of laptops from China to The Netherlands via railways.
Craig Martin’s book illuminates the “development of containerization”- including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers.
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