3 Artists

Jonathan Paul Ive

Jonathan Paul Ive was born on the 27th February 1967 and has a net worth of $130 million. He is currently the chief design officer of apple, he has overseen almost every apple product design from iPod to the iOS. In his early life his career he initially wanted to become a car designer were he looked at studying at the Royal College of Art in London but upon visiting he said he did not like the learning environment. He then went onto study at Newcastle Polytechnic which is now known as Northumbria University. He was later given employment at London design agency Roberts Weaver group, who was his college sponsor.

He is a contemporary modern artist. He has a minimalist style and uses a lot of bare metal and glossed black and white plastics. I feel that the style of bare metal was inspired by his father who was a silversmith and let him practice in his workshop when it was empty. The white minimalist style looks very sterile and futuristic. He uses a lot of smooth edges and ergonomics in his earlier designs but the later products seem to get less ergonomic and have sharper corners.

I feel that Jonathan Ive has served as a great inspiration to me. I rely like his ground breaking and modern designs and I feel that every product he works on will be time defining and is always a really good take on some very unique products.

Buckminster Fuller

Fuller is a historical modern artist that was was born in the year 1895 on the 12th July. From Milton Massachusetts, he was the son of Richard Buckminster Fuller and Caroline Walcott Andrews. Fuller attended Milton academy Massachusetts then went on to study at Harvard University, were he joined the house, Adams House. He was expelled from Harvard twice, the first time for irresponsible behavior and the second time for not showing enough interest in the course. Between his time at Harvard Fuller worked as a mechanic in a textiles mill and later as a laborer in a meat packing industry. He also served in the US navy during world war one as a ship board radio operator, as editor of publications and as a crash boat commander. After being discharged he went on to work at the meat packing company again before he married Anne Hewlett in 1917. Fuller was best known for his work on the Geodesic domes. Fuller taught at Black Mountain College in North California were with the support of a group of other professors and students he began reinventing the project that would make him famous. In spite of not actually creating the Geodesic domes which was created thirty years prior by Dr. Walther Bauersfeld, Fuller was awarded the patent due to the fact that he is the one that popularized these structures. Fuller died July 1st in 1983. During the period leading up to his death, his wife had been lying comatose in a Los Angeles hospital, dying of cancer. When he went to visit her there that he exclaimed, at a certain point "She is squeezing my hand!" He then stood up, suffered a heart attack, and died an hour later, at age 87. His wife of 66 years died 36 hours later.

Fullers design architecture uses domes in most of his designs. One of his most famous works was the geodisic dome expo 67 montreal. This building was designed to showcase the water ecosystem of the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence River region. I common trait of Fullers designs is that they look some what militaristic. This could be a reflection of the time he spent in the military and shows that most of his buildings are function over form yet they still bring their own unique design ethic to the table. Most of his designs look futuristic for their time but still not quite like our current modern design which puts it in a nice in between were the design is still original.

I personally like Fulles designs. I feel they are extremely original and even today there is still little to nothing that can compare. His designs still look futuristic today and I really like the originality and the uniqueness of the buildings he has designed.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright is a historical modern artist born in the year 1867 on the 8th June. He was an architect, righter, interior designer and teacher that had designed over 1000 different structures with 532 of them being completed. One of his most famous building was the Fallingwater building which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture and was later designated as an official landmark. He has written over 20 books and articles as well as working as a popular lecturer all around the United States and Europe. Wright went to the University of Wisconsin Madison as a special student in 1886. There he joined Phi Delta Theta fraternity, In 1887, Wright left the school without taking a degree and moved to Chicago in search of employment. After months of searching he got a job as a draftsman with the architectural firm of Joseph Lyman Silsbee. Wright later died on the 9th April 1959.

Wrights style is derived from an ideal he calls organic architecture, this means that he tries to design all of his buildings to blend seamlessly with their enviroment and almost become a peice of the landscape rather then take away from the enviroment. It is because of this that most of his buildings use alot of natural materials like wood as well as the use of trees and other foliage as design features build into the buildings. Wright said that he wanted the inside of the houses he makes to feel like "putting a hat on and going outside". His most famous work Fallingwater is the best example of his organic architecture for it is the closest thing to becoming part of the landscape as you can get. It is build into the rock and the shape perfectly suits the enviroment.

Frank Lloyd Wright is personaly my favorite designer. I really like his designs and how he aims to make them as natural as possible. It is this naturalt style that I hope to implement in my designs for my FMP and for any future endevors I may take to.

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