Hasta La Ideas

pA friend who works as a toy designer recently told me her new intern–an ID grad–had never used a glue gun! And I wonder if today’s ID grads know what graphite smells like. I believe my graduating class was one of the last to learn drafting the old-fashioned way, with an assortment of mechanical pencils./p

pNowadays most ID curriculums revolve around the computer, whether for modeling or drafting. I don’t mean this to be another “When I was your age” type of post; but I just came across “The Decanter,” a promo video from design consultancy A HREF=”http://landor.com/index.cfm?bhcp=1″ Walter Landor and Associates/A, which details the design process of the titular product way back in the 1960s, before I was even born. /p

pIf someone dropped a project on you today to design a decanter, you’d probably look at pictures of other decanters on the web, and do your drafting and modeling on the computer, which you’d also use to e-mail the client for updates and feedback. What the heck would you do in the 1960s when, needless to say, they didn’t have any computers to run the design through?/p

pMany of you may be curious as to how they got projects like this done back then. Here’s to hoping you’re fifteen-and-a-half minutes worth of curious, as this video Iwas/I edited in the 1960s (the project doesn’t even really start until 1:23 into the video). Check it out:/p

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