Designer Investigation

Buckminster Fuller-  Fuller was a designer, inventor, poet, and futurist who learned by working at different industrial jobs.  He was able to solve problems involving human shelter, nutrition, transportation, environmental pollution, and decreasing world resources.  In order to solve these problems he was committed to do more with less and he did this by using new technology.  He designed the 1927 Dymaxion House, which is referred to as Marshall-Field.  The 1933 Dymaxion Car was also another of his designs.  The 1947 Geodesic Dome was designed as an emergency shelter for the British War Relief Organization.  The dome was designed to be able to be set up and took down easily.  It also was made to cover a maximum amount of space without any internal supports.  Now this is used as an inexpensive way to shelter homeless people in Africa, or to house a weather station in the Antartic.  Along with all these accomplishments he has wrote 25 books.  Eero Saarinen-  Eero is an architect who followed in his father's foot steps.  A lot of his early works were collaborations with his father.  After his father passed away he renamed the family business to Eero Saarinen and Associates.  His architecture has been characterized by expressive sculpture forms and his basic design ideas were of those of Modernism.  When he was making a new project and a material that he wanted did not exist he would invent it.  Eero was also a prize winning designer of furniture.  He designed several different chairs which include: the Grasshopper lounge chair and ottoman, the Womb chair and ottoman, the Womb settee, and the Tulip chair or Pedestal chair.  Some of his chairs were put into production by the Knoll furniture company.  Other projects of his include the Trans World Air Lines Terminal at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, the John Deere Administrative Center, the Bell Laboratories headquarters, and Dulles International Airport.  Jasper Morrison-  Jasper is an industrial designer who went to school at Kingston Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art.  After he graduated in 1986 he opened his first office for design in London.  As a designer he would travel around London on his moped and find small industrial workshops that would produce his products.  These products were formed out of materials that have already been formed.  Out of this process things like his flower pot table was made, this was a glass table that was helf up by flower pots.  After doing this kind of work for a while companies like the German door handle maker, an Italian furniture manufacture, and a Swiss furniture company all commissioned his work.  As a designer he tried to design every day house hold items that were lighter, softer, inclusive, and that generate light and space.  These products were part of his Some New Items For The House collection.  Jasper kept his connections with his friends that he went to school with.  He would collaborate with his friends like James Irvine and Andreas Brandolini.  Clients who hired him allowed him to experiment with new materials and technology.  As a result he designed objects like the 1999 Low Pad Chair, 1956 Steel and Leather chair, and also the 1999 Air chair.  He did not only design furniture, on his list of things he had designed included the tram system for the city of Hanover, this was a two year project for him.  In 2000 he added a new studio in Paris to his work while he divided his time between Paris and London.  

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