Midcentury – Bonus Writing

Thinking about these Mid-Century designers who are difficult to pin down into one discipline (industrial, graphic, environmental design). What can you learn from their expansive ways of thinking? What concepts and ideas are still relevant today? How might you become a broad thinker like these designers?

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• Ruth Bhavsar – Midcentury Bonus Writing
  by Ruth Bhavsar
  Mid-century designers participated in a wide-array of practices, all of which ultimately supplemented their viewpoints and work. Their expansive ways of teaching can show us…
• A Better Designer…
  by Ted Huang
  One of the reasons for the difficulty to pin down these Mid-Century into one discipline is because they were not constrained in just one aspect…
• Observation-a must for design research
  by Hermione Hu
  Behavior learning is a key part of design research nowadays, and I would like to strongly mention observation. When Dreyfuss and his team realized that…
• Exploring Connections between Humans and Products
  by Mengyao Xiu
  In my view, a designer should act as an intermediate person between the people and the products or works rather than a server. In other…
• Design is a Verb, not an End-Product
  by Elaine Choi
  In consideration of Mid-century pioneers, and the various field of designs on which they have explored and left their impact on, I am reminded of…
• Seeing the Bigger Picture
  by Philip Joo
  By thinking in a way that is expansive in my opinion means to think of more than just the aesthetics of a product.  Henry Dreyfuss…
• Design is a multiple disciplines in many ways.
  by Lylyna Heng
  After going through Eames, Gerstner and Sutnar brief and they all had the same expansive ways of thinking. That being said it is a skill…
• Think, Reiterate, Recreate
  by Evan Tang
  Dreyfuss, Eames, Gustner, and Sutner all had different views but were impactful to the field of design. Each one of them wanted to create a…
• Empathy & Playfulness – keys to broad thinking
  by Amanda Liu
  Focus or broaden up? This is a question that bothered me for a long time as a design student. When we look at the glory…
• Think, Think, Think
  by Corey Rossi
  Henry Dreyfuss, Charles and Ray Eames, Karl Gustner, and Ladislav Sutner all had some amazing contributions to the world of interaction design, and to people….
• X, Y, Z-Axes of Designer’s Thought
  by Jasmine Sun
  When making a 3D model, designers will realize that to make it accurate, they need to consider three dimensions. Interestingly, I was surprised to find…
• As a future interaction designer
  by Zijie Zhou
  Interaction design is a relatively young design area compared to other design majors. At the same time, with the rapid development of technology, it is…
• I Found My Way
  by Rebecca Lin
  The designers in the Mid-Century laid the foundation and standards for our design today. Many of their concept and ideas have been used by us…
• Narrow thinking will affect design ability
  by Elena Wang
  As an interaction designer, recognition of professional field is of course important. However, I think having broad thinking ability is a thing that can improve…
• The more the merrier!
  by Anh Truong
  A multidisciplinary design approach seeks to integrate the different skillsets into the design process. While it’s important to specialize in one area, a designer who…
• Valuable assets for a better designer
  by John Cho
  Dreyfuss appealed the Human-centred design, focusing on how people enhance their life’s security using the design and minimize the impact on people’s fluidity behavior. His…
• Never stop thinking
  by Betty Li
  The Eames Creative Process inspires me. They keep testing, then draw the ideas in their minds through sketches, change the materials, adjust the size, shape,…
• From Mid-Century design to 21th century design
  by Peter Peng
  I think midcentury designers’ views have many commons; for example, they are human-oriented, which achieved basic principles of interaction design;Dreyfuss’s s quoted say, “when the…
• Expansive Tool Belt
  by Noah Ahrens
  To be multidisciplinary and expansive within the design landscape is powerful as it allows you to bring in all different perspectives and ideas to a…