Take a seat.

I love this suite by Erich Dieckmann who trained at the very famous Bauhaus design school in Weimar.
Image via ffffound.

The Thonet chair from 1859, you know this one like you know the word cafe.

This is one of the most successful industrial designs of all time. Michael Thonet developed the process of bending timber using water and steam. That's how you can make a back and legs from a single piece of timber.

The Finn Juhl chair NV-45 above proves that some very cool things were happening in Copenhagen in 1945 when this was made.


 Check out designer Ron Arad's work with chairs.

Stage and set design from Pink Floyd to Ninja Tune

Here's a little thinking on stage and set design from a right up to date Amon Tobin stage set design back to Architects and designers Fisher Park who designed concert rigs for The Rolloing Stones and Pink Floyd.

Amon Tobin 'ISAM' Live (Extended Trailer) from Ninja Tune on Vimeo.

Ninja Tune. (2011). Amon Tobin 'ISAM' Live (Extended Trailer). [Online Video]. 13 September. Available from: http://vimeo.com/24502224. [Accessed: 27 June 2012].


Above a good look at the design process and some fantastic projected lighting effects.

Unknown, (1968), stage [ONLINE]. Available at: http://maisdjlileikaite.blogspot.ie/2010/12/inspiration-archigram-instant-city.html [Accessed 27 June 12]. 


The walking city above was an idea proposed by architect Ron Heron. The idea for the walking city concerns the mobility of large structures. In the 60's it was all theory and today it still is except in the world of big concert roadshow where armies of articulated trucks shift huge stage sets across continents.


From another angle modern concert set design has its historical routes in the nightime Son e Lumier shows from 1700's France where as the name suggests elaborate lighting shows (elaborate for the time) were combined with live music.


Below are the concept drawings and finished product for The Wall tour.

The Architects' journal: Volume 196, Issues 14-21 - 1992, (1992), 1980-1 - Mark Fisher - Teacher - "The Wall" [ONLINE]. Available at: http://cyberneticzoo.com/?p=6921 [Accessed 27 June 12].

behance.net ffffound.com

Let me tell you where I head for inspiration on my travels through the web.
If you are looking to see some great creative portfolios have a look at behance, where there is a strong creative community curating there own portfolios. The quality here is strong and the mix is from illustration to
architecture.

http://www.behance.net/

I love this shop by itomasaru on behance, August 16 in metal.



Image taken from http://www.behance.net/gallery/16AOUT-complex/4202813





bottom images from ffffound

Also ffffound is where creative types gather and bookmark images that they have come across on the web.

Peter Saville Designer

So I seem to be covering most of the ground so far with 2d designers, the masters of print and digital media.
Lets have one more post on a man who has designed everything from album artwork to gravestones. Peter Saville was the principal designer used by Manchester's Factory Records. Factory are probably best known for being the record label that Joy Division and New Order were signed to.

http://www.clashmusic.com, (2011), Peter Saville [ONLINE]. 

Available at:http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/the-modern-fabric-of-england-peter-saville

 [Accessed 13 June 12].

Peter Saville, above, and would you expect a designer to look any different.

Suede by Saville

Joy Division 

Gravestone of Factory Records Founder Tony Wilson designed by Peter Saville.

Dave Davidson, (2011), Peter Saville - Commercialism + Design [ONLINE]. Available at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b4j_bRiZ_nU#! [Accessed 13 June 12].

Tomato

Who or what is Tomato. Tomato is a collective of artists, designers, musicians and writers. On the musician end you may recognise Underworld. Tomato was founded in 1991 to work on commercial and research based multi media projects  and they work in advertising, architecture, fashion, public installations, music, television, film and graphic design. I have given a little sample of their film video work below.

water ink rorschach from TomatoMultiMedia Productions2076 on Vimeo.

OK with the piece above, tell me what you see.




tomato graphics from tomato on Vimeo.

The piece above Tomato graphics reminds me of the title sequence for Se7en which we had a look at earlier

Wall tiles.

This image is so simple, I really should not add any words. Wood , concrete, tile. Furniture.

http://www.marazzi.it/, (2012), For the Milan Triennale in 1960, Gio’ Ponti and Alberto Rosselli designed a 4-time curved ceramic brick with shiny surfaces and in different colours. [ONLINE]. Available at: http://retaildesignblog.net/category/materials/ [Accessed 05 June 12].

Film Title Design

Film title Design follows on well from Typography, Layout and Film Set Design.
Film title designers can, and do play an essential part in setting the tone of a film and two of the masters in this area are Thomas Cobbs and Saul Bass. Bass is perhaps best known for his work in the 1950's and 1960's on the films of Alfred Hitchcock. He used a cut out animation technique for the opening sequence of Anatomy of a Murder.




Have a look at the typograpy here in Thomas Cobbs opening sequence for the film Se7en. The script design works as a strong contributing element to what is a very sinister opening sequence. This piece sparked a new interest in film title sequence design. Both pieces, here and below are prime examples of film titles that could stand as films in their own right.




Saul Bass

 For a great film title resource have a look at Art of the Title