{"id":1833,"date":"2015-02-26T16:37:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T20:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/volumesandissues\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2019-09-27T11:53:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T15:53:34","slug":"the-designed-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/volumesandissues\/2015\/02\/26\/the-designed-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Designed World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look around you.\u00a0 Every single thing you see, from pens, to desks, to telephones, to scissors and tubes of handcream, has been designed by a person or a group of people.\u00a0 It’s fitting during NYC Fashion Week to recognize that not just our clothing, but everything we sit on or at, or use or even touch, is the result of someone’s creative thinking.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2015\/02\/09\/384924292\/from-soy-sauce-to-bullet-trains-famed-japanese-designer-dies-at-85<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve used that soy sauce bottle an awful lot, and never given its designer a second thought.\u00a0 It would be seriously cool to have had that kind of creative impact on the world around us, though, wouldn’t it?<\/p>\n

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Here’s another designer whose work is familiar:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/moslive\/article-1367481\/Apples-Jonathan-Ive-How-did-British-polytechnic-graduate-design-genius.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Not surprisingly, we in the library have a lot of information on designers and inspiration for designers.\u00a0 We’re in the business of trying to inspire YOU, in fact.\u00a0 And teach you some history of your craft while we’re at it.<\/p>\n

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One big designed space that many of you are learning about right now is that of the American home.\u00a0 Many of you are currently working on this project for HP 231.\u00a0 You may not know that we’ve set up a Library Guide to help you with this project:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/fitnyc.libguides.com\/americahome<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"split<\/a>In the Lib Guide, url listed above, there are a lot of websites that have information to help you research this project.\u00a0 This website contains hundreds of scans of building company catalogs, sample homes, and floorplans.\u00a0 Just be sure to only use ones where the original diagrams or drawings that have printed dates.\u00a0 (This makes it a documented primary source.)<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42353480@N02\/sets\/72157622229110201\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In case you are wondering what makes a good source vs. a bad source, we’ve written a Lib Guide on that, too…<\/p>\n

http:\/\/fitnyc.libguides.com\/start<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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If you’re researching industrial designers (those folks who design the things around us) there are a lot of really interesting lists and articles on the web.\u00a0\u00a0 Here are a couple, for example:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.creativebloq.com\/design\/20-industrial-designers-follow-behance-1012886<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.snap2objects.com\/2009\/05\/70-designers-that-shaped-the-worl<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

But in the library, we also have a lot of good books on the history of design.<\/p>\n

\"conversations<\/a><\/p>\n

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This author of this book interviews all kinds of designers.<\/p>\n

Conversations: Up Close and Personal with Icons of Fashion, Interior Design, and Art<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0 by Blue Carreon.<\/p>\n

5th Floor, Main Stacks TT515 .C37 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"modern<\/a><\/p>\n

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Industrial design is a relatively new name and new profession for something people have done for thousands of years.\u00a0 But events like the World’s Fairs have helped make these tasks into prominent professions.<\/p>\n

Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs<\/a>, 1851-1939,<\/strong> by Regina Lee Blaszczyk, et al.<\/p>\n

5th Floor, Main Stacks NK775 .F88<\/strong><\/p>\n

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These are only a few of the many books we have in the library to help you find out more about the people who designed the world around you.\u00a0 Check out more in StyleCat, using search words like:<\/p>\n

Decorative Arts – History<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Fashion<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Interior Design<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Art<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Exhibitions<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

And good luck with your spring-semester projects!<\/p>\n

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