My Understanding of Design HIstory

-       What is Design History?

  In my opinion, Design history can be defined as the process of people seeking for a better way to live our lives. It is a pathway to approve the perfection of the world around us. It is influencing people’s understanding of everyday life. It creates fashion, graphs, industrial products, crafts and art works and a lot more. Our lives are based on design and from the world is created it brought a huge change which still affects nowadays.

 

-       About my favorite design style and designer.

 My favorite designer is Tinker Hatfield, who is the chief designer of the sport wear brand Nike and Jordan Brand. He is considered to be the first person to change the sneaker and sport wear market, changing sneakers from sport equipment to an adorable and stylish fashion trademark. (In the picture below on the left is Tinker, and the black man on the side is the basketball legend, Micheal Jordan, image from: http://www.zackhackett.com/contentCLOSEups/web_design/WEbsites/tinker_porto/images/mj_and_tinker.jpg)

-       What I admire about Tinker?

 Tinker is a pioneer in the field of sneaker design. He is the first shoe designer who pushes out the design theory of fusion and crossovers. In his designs, he put animal prints like elephant prints and other fashion elements into sport shoes, and making the shape of shoes looks like fighter jets. Streamlining design has affected his works. He put air bags at the back of shoes so people can feel more comfortable when wearing them sporting. All of the design elements he has used on sneakers is a first that nobody else don’t even think of before. 
(Below is the Air Jordan 3 sneaker which changed the shoe game and the market that time, using elephant print and air bag at the back, image from:http://s3.amazonaws.com/nk_wp_media/uploads/2011/10/air-jordan-iii-black-cement-official-images-2.jpeg)

-       What am I interest in learning Design History?

 I think the most important thing I can learn from design history is the knowledge about how designers come up with their ideas by observing the world around them and thinking more than normal people who won’t be aware of. Designers before were full of passion and ideas to make a set of ideas into reality. There is some magic power in design the subject that has the power to change people’s life. I really want to earn all the skills by studying more about the course and achieve more goals based on my ideas.