Most of the mid-century designers did a variety of things in different design areas. Their experiences made a huge contribution and built the foundations to the later design area such as interaction design.
Ray Eames and her husband Charles Eames’ skills have covered the field of architecture, furniture design, industrial design, manufacturing, and photographic arts. They encourage designers to keep a positive attitude when experimenting with their own work. They trying to made different versions for their bent plywood chairs to show people the possibilities and fun of design.
Karl Gerstner was a Swiss designer, typographer, author, and artist. He is a pioneer of modern graphic design, flexible identity systems, and responsive identity systems. He developed ideas of flexible grids, systematic design, and integral typography. He mentioned that the design should be able to work anywhere and in any device.
Ladislav Sutnar was a graphic designer and a pioneer of information design and information architecture. And he was a master of exhibition design, typography, advertising, posters, magazine and book design. He designs things from the user’s perspective and the navigating viewers he mentioned is something really important for the interaction design.
Henry Dreyfuss was an industrial design pioneer. He first mentioned that the human is a factor during the design process. “When the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the industrial designer has failed.” The things he mentioned makes designers focus more on the users’ needs and feelings.
Thanks for sharing! It’s good to know that most of the mid-century designers did a variety of things in different design areas. Their experiences made a huge contribution and built the foundations to the later design area such as interaction design.
I like how concise your paragraphs are when talking about Eames, Sutnar, and Dreyfuss’s backgrounds and their fields of work.