Question by mason00000001: When you think of a “Great Achievement in Clean and Simple Design,” what do you think of?
What are the top 20 “achievements in clean and simple design”? These should be well known human-made objects that are timeless and elegant.
They can span all history and come from any genre: print design, the web, architecture, food, fashion, furniture, jewelry, art, sculpture, industrial design, etc.
If you agree with items already posted in this forum, please let me know that, too!
Some ideas:
Pyramids of Egypt
Vidal Sasson Angular Cut
http://www.pmpnetwork.com/photos8/VidalSassoon.jpg
Andy Warhol’s Campbell Soup Can
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Warhol-Campbell_Soup-1-screenprint-1968.jpg
The French Press:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:French_press.jpg
The WordPress Default Theme:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wordpress_main_theme.png
Life Magazine Covers:
http://www.originallifemagazines.com/thumb/b7a6df3a7568b8a269e8ec0400475047.jpg
Classic Corvette
Coca-Cola logo
Bauhaus Chair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bauhaus_Chair_Breuer.png
Your ideas???
Best answer:
Answer by MB
This may sound kind of ridiculous, but I think that the No. 2 pencil is one of the most well designed tools ever created. It does its job perfectly, includes an eraser in case mistakes are made, can be be sharpened in case the lead breaks, is highly portable, and is very inexpensive. In short, form and function converge into one very simple, timeless, and incredibly useful tool.
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hmmmmm… only 20??
here are some of my favorites:
barcelona pavilion (1929) by ludwig mies van der rohe (and lots of his other projects could fit this list–he is one of the original modern masters)
http://www.miesbcn.com/en/outside.html
TWA terminal jfk new york by eero saarinen
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/TWA_at_New_York.html
johnson wax complex by frank lloyd wright
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Johnson_Wax_Building.html/cid_johnson_wax_001.html
LC4 chaise by le corbusier
http://dwr.com/productdetail.cfm?id=8100
bottega chair by renzo fauciglietti
http://dwr.com/productdetail.cfm?id=4749
noguchi table
http://dwr.com/productdetail.cfm?id=0236
case study houses #21 & 22 (1960) by pierre koenig
http://www.jetsetmodern.com/koenigarticle.htm
block lamp by harri koskinen
http://www.momastore.org/museum/moma/ProductDisplay_Block%20Lamp_10451_10001_13945_-1_11451_11500_null__
napoli tub from victoria and albert
http://www.trendir.com/archives/000909.html
shadow lounger by christian ghion
http://portal.cappellini.it:7778/portal/page/portal/Prodotti/1_Collezione/5_Poltrone/Shadow