When you think of a great performance "in clean and simple design," What do you think? What are the top 20 "of achievements in the design clean and simple"? These should be well known man-made objects that are timeless and elegant.
They may extend over the whole history and come from any kind: the design of print, web, architecture, food, fashion, furniture, jewelry, art, sculpture, industrial design, etc.
If you agree with the articles already posted in this forum, please let me know that, too!
Some ideas:
Pyramids
Cut Vidal Sasson angular
http://www.pmpnetwork.com/photos8/VidalSassoon.jpg
Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Can
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Warhol-Campbell_Soup-1-screenprint-1968.jpg
The French Press
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:French_press.jpg
The default theme of WordPress:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wordpress_main_theme.png
Life Magazine Covers:
http://www.originallifemagazines.com/thumb/b7a6df3a7568b8a269e8ec0400475047.jpg
Corvette Classic
Coca-Cola logo
Bauhaus President
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bauhaus_Chair_Breuer.png
Your thoughts???
hmmmmm ... Only 20??
Here are some of my favorites:
Barcelona Pavilion (1929) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (and many of his other projects could correspond to this list - it is one of the modern masters of origin)
http://www.miesbcn.com/en/outside.html
New York's JFK TWA Terminal by Eero Saarinen
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/ ...
Johnson Wax Complex by Frank Lloyd Wright
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gb ...
Le Corbusier LC4 chaise
http://dwr.com/productdetail.cfm?id=8100
Bottega Chair by Renzo fauciglietti
http://dwr.com/productdetail.cfm?id=4749
Noguchi Table
http://dwr.com/productdetail.cfm?id=0236
Case Study Houses # 21 & 22 (1960) by Pierre Koenig
http://www.jetsetmodern.com/koenigarticl ...
Block Lamp by Harri Koskinen
http://www.momastore.org/museum/moma/Pro ...
Napoli from Victoria & Albert Bath
http://www.trendir.com/archives/000909.h ...
Transat shadow by Christian Ghion
http://portal.cappellini.it:7778/portal/ ...
This may seem kind of ridiculous, but I think that No. 2 pencil is one of the most well designed ever created. He does his job perfectly and includes an eraser in case mistakes are made, it can be refined by a rupture of lead, is very portable and very inexpensive. In short, the form and function converge in a very simple, timeless, and an incredibly useful tool.
Posted on March 27, 2010.
