Second assignment and im already spacing...ieee

Like my situation wasnt stressing me out enough my dog decided to contribute instead of help. Saturday she figured out how to run away, she had never done it before but i guess she enjoyed it and did it again later that day! Luckily my neighborhood is sooo dog friendly and as soon as someone saw her they promptly swept her up and dragged her home!
Anyways...
The end of last week really threw me off, so much I guess I completely spaces writing this post.

The Bauhaus seems to really balance the idea of form and function, it is a sort of balance between the manufactories and artists of that time. It does not get caught up in making the function of the object so literally it loses the look an artist would apply and vice versa. It is a visit back to craftsmanship, where not everything was made by machines. Like this piece says "Design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society." It is a revisit to craftsmanship. Walter Gropius, the founder of the school helped create a huge part of design history. Many big names came out of the Bauhaus such as Charles R. Mackintosh, Eero Saarinen,Eileen Gray, George Nelson,Marcel Breuer and Mies van Der Rohe, all which have produced some of the most iconic pieces of furniture to date. However, I like to think Dieter Ram has got to be at the top of the list.

Dieter Ram was pretty much the man who Braums design style. Starting work there in 1955 and continuing to enhance their design until 1995, he redefined their design standards! The interview with Dieter (I feel like we should be on a first name basis) really made me respect him as a designer and a person. His rule of design was "less but better" and we really see this influence in the SK4 record player, which happens to be my object to remix!

Dieter's innovation of the clear top took the record player from being a bulky piece of furniture to a piece of art. This being my design remix object I feel like I have a challenge. By taking an ordinarily hidden object in the house and displaying it to be seen by everyone he has made this record player visually appealing thing, so my thought was to take it a step further and display it as art... but guess who has done that, Dieter Rams. While in class we watched an interview with him and I noticed he had already deigned another record player that hangs on the wall just like a piece of art. So much for that idea.