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this is a slideshow of my screw cap design visual diary 

The internet officially turned 40 on wednesday, 2 September 2009. The very first internet connection was made using two computers in California to send and recieve information through an experimaental military system called Arpanet. From that day on there were many crashes of the system , but slowly the e-mail was created in 1972 by Ray Thomlinson, which was followed by suffixes such as .govt. .com and .edu. Some of the more malicious acts on the internet began in 1988 when a the first worm, called Morris, was created and crashed hundreds of computers. Other things like World Wide Web, Spam , Internet browsers, Napster (music downloading), and Google all became active all before the 21st century. By 2002 the WWW population was over 500 Million, especially with the introduction of blogging youtube and facebook. There are now over 1.5 billion internet users and it is an ever increasing popultion with the new wireless devices like the iPhone and other cellphones with wireless capabilities.

http://www.search.eb.com/eb/article-9002506

http://www.3news.co.nz/40-years-of-internet-history/tabid/417/articleID/119125/cat/61/Default.aspx

In 1759 the Wedgwood ceramic company was founded by one Josiah Wedgwood. The company was originally established at the Ivy house ( Burslem, England) and later he moved to Etruria. The very first pieces of wedgwood were classic cream coloured ceramic products. One of the very first pieces he created was the cauliflower pot in 1759 It was made using the hand moulding technique, which has been a main process for making wedgwood products. The wedgwood company has kept the reputation for creating wonderful one off creations , refusing to be swayed to the more industruial and modern tecniques, there has been very little changes in the actual manufacture process. a few key innovations created by Josiah  was the ceramic Black basalt and creamware. Wedgwood are currently celebarting their 250 th birthday adb have made several one off pieces such as the snake handled vase and stand designed using Jasper.

www.replacements.com/thismonth/archive/v101b.htm

Richard Sapper is considered on of the " Super Designers" of the the 1980's. He designed a stainless steel kettle that made a sound like a locomotive, a series of flatware including a spaghetti fork, and a Flambe pan' that was designed specifically for chefs. All of these designs were under the Alessi name. Under his own name Sapper was also responsible for designing the 'Tizio' low voltage light in 1972 which had a matt-black finish.

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                                                       Flambe pan , designed 1984-86




Stainless steel kettle.

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                                                       Tizio lamp, 1972









References:

Collins, Michael. (1999). Alessi. London. Carlton Books Ltd.
Byars, M.  Barre- Despond. (1999). 100 Designs / 100 Years : Innovative designs of the 20 th Century. Switzerland. Rotovision SA.

These are some of my favourite chairs throughout the topics that we have learnt about. They all make me think of Blobject types style. I like the style of all theses chairs because they have a loose feel, unlike the more rigid style of chairs like the Toledo, or Wassily chair, which have a more industrial aesthetic.

The glaobe chair and Pastille chair were designeed by Eero Aarnio during the early beginnings of industrial design. Aarnio was both an interior and industrial designer. His designs were mostly inspired from handcrafted techniques and natural materials. The globe chair was popular in the ' 70's ( similar to that of the bubble chair that hangs from the ceiling) The Globe chair was designed in 1963 -65 an was intended to reflect the new ' space-age forms' of the 1960's. Both of theses chairs along with a few others won an award called the Associazione per il Disegno Industriale (AID) in 1968.

I have seen this coffeemaker several times in the various movies that I have watched. I was actually quite surprised when I could recognise it as a famous design.

The 'coffeemaker' "Moka Express" was designed by Alfonso Bialetti in 1930. The original shape is the first image on the left. In 1933 the shape was changed to a more sleek look; which is the one I've see. The Moka Express is a stove top coffeemaker, it uscrews in the middle. Coffee is placed in the central compartment with the water below  and the steam is forced out and collected in the top compartment. In the 1930 the coffeemaker was expensive and considered an odd piece of design, but today it is a common sight in most Italian homes due to mass production after WW 2 .

The maufacturer of the Moka coffeemaker was Bialletti / Moka. this link is to the Bialetti history behind the company. According to this the company officially opened in 1919 when Alfonso Bialetti started a workshop that produce aluminium 'products' . It was a combination of both Him and his son Renato that allowed them to move forward into a more marketable form of design, thus the Moka Coffeemaker became popular, along with the  Bialetti  name.  Today they still produce products under the name Bialetti, 90 years.  The Bialetti Products

Reference: http://www.bialetti.it/uk/index.asp
Mcdermott, C.(1997).20th Century Design.Victoria. Penguin Books Australia Ltd.
Byars, M.  Barre- Despond. (1999). 100 Designs / 100 Years : Innovative designs of the 20 th Century. Switzerland. Rotovision SA.
http://blog.ghostinthemachines.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/bialetti_moka_express.jpg
http://www.amateurarchivist.net/periferia/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/bialletti.png

Some other facts  that happened during the 1930's.

•  Freon gas was used in refrigerators. The gas was founded by Thomas Midgley in 1931, but was later discovered that it was destrying the ozone, so was no longer used.
• I.G. Farberindustrie in Germany were involved with producing Polystyrene, and W.L. Semon  at the B.F. Goodrich Company in the US created PVC or polyvinylchloride.
• The 'planet' Pluto  was discovered by C.W. Tombaugh in the US.
• Constantinople( formely Byzantium) was renamed  Istanbul, Turkey.
• Arthur Conan Doyle died.

Reference: Byars, M. & Barre-Despond, A. (1999).100 Designs / 100 Years : innivative designs of the 20 th Century. Switzerland, Rotovision SA.

 There were a few other things happening while the coca cola bottle was designed in 1915.

1. The Panama-Pacific international Exposition opened in San Francisco  which had over 190,000,000 visitors.
2. Sonar became a must have in ships  to detect icebergs ( created by Paul Langevin)
3. The theory of relativity was introduced by Albert Einstein
4. One of the first transcontinental telephone calls, made between San Franciso and New York.
5. The first Dada Style paintings were being produced by Marcel Duchamp
6. Wireless radio was established between Japan and the U.S

Reference: Byars, M. Barre-Despond, A. (1999). 100 Designs / 100 Years : Innovative Design of teh 20 th Century. Rotovision SA. Switzerland. 42

Panama Pacific International Exposition         Transatlantic phone Call                    Marcel Duchamp

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