Ten things about James Dyson
1. One of his early inventions was the Ballbarrow; a wheelbarrow with a ball instead of a wheel.
2. In the factory where the Ballbarrow was made there was a lot of dust, so Dyson created a cyclone tower that used centrifugal force to pull the dust particles out of the building. He wondered if he could use that same idea in a vacuum cleaner.
3. It took him 5 years and 5,127 prototypes to get the world’s first bag less vacuum cleaner.
4. He invented the Airblade hand dryer that dries hands with clean unheated air in less than 12 seconds.
5. He was knighted in 2006.
6. In 2002 he created a water sculpture that made it appear that the water was flowing uphill.
7. He started the James Dyson foundation in 2002 to support design and engineering education.
8. He was born in Cromer, Norfolk, England.
9. He studied furniture and interior design at the Royal College of Art for 4 years before moving into engineering.
10. He was awarded the Prince Phillip Designers Prize in 1997.
Ten things about Jonathon Ives
1. He is the principal designer of iMac, PowerBook G4, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
2. He was born in Chingford, London
3. He studied Industrial Design at Northumbria University
4. He moved to the United States in 1992 to pursue a career at Apple Inc.
5. His work is said to be inspired by the 1960s German designer Dieter Rams.
6. In 2009 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the Rhode Island School of Design and was also named Honorary Doctor of the Royal College of Art.
7. He was named “world’s smartest designer” in 2010 by Fortune magazine.
8. He introduced color and light into the computer world where before all computers were cased in beige and grey.
9. He has over 300 design patents.
10. He won the Design Museum’s inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2002.
Michael Graves.
Michael Graves is an American architect born July 9, 1934 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He received his architectural training at the University of Cincinnati and attended Harvard University for grad school. In 1960 he received the Prix de Rome fellowship from the American Academy in Rome and spent 2 years studying in Rome. He taught architecture at Princeton University and has also been a visiting professor at the University of Texas, the University of Houston, UCLA, the University of Maryland, the University of North Carolina, and the New School for Social Research in New York. He has published a number of scholarly writings. Graves is one of the New York Five, a group of five architects whose work was in the Museum of Art exhibition in 1967.
Drawing is an essential part of Graves’s work. There have been exhibits featuring his drawings and sculptures. He uses a lot of natural colors. His use of color and architectural composition has been a big influence in the design of buildings as well as interior design. Graves is responsible for the design of many buildings including the Humana building in Louisville, Kentucky, the Portland building in Oregon, the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Florida, the NCAA Hall of Champions in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Steigenberger Hotel in El Gouna, Egypt in association with architect Ahmed Hamdy, the International Finance Corporation Building in Washington D.C., and many more. He has also recently started designing furniture and other household items such as dinnerware, flatware, tables and chairs, jewelry, and even a telephone. His most famous is the teakettle with a whistling bird. He has a line of kitchen ware items at Target stores.
In 2003, an infection left Graves paralyzed from the waist down, but he still continued to work and create. He has won many awards including 7 National Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architecture for completed buildings, 31 design awards from the Society of Architects, 14 from Progressive Architecture magazine, and 7 from Interiors magazine. He has had a very successful career.
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