DP Design - Topic 6 - Classic Design

Classic design is often associated with the following

• i) Popular culture

  ii) Omnipresence

  iii) Custom made

• i) Popular culture

  ii) Emotional triggers

  iii) Low cost

• i) Popular culture

  ii) Unchanged over several decades

  iii) Dominant design

Things that contribute to Planned Obsolescence are the following...

• Fashion - it looks dated

• Technology - there is a better technology available

• Materials - the materials fail (breakdown)

• Construction techniques - inferior manufacturing leading to the product breaking

• All answers are correct!

Products that are classed as classic designs are always very expensive.

• True

• False

Modernism can be described best by the phrase

• Function follows form

• Form follows function

Classic design must always function well

• True

• False

Psychological factors influence what

• How a product functions

• Our emotional response to the way a product looks

Other companies often copy classic designs

• True

• False

Which of these is NOT a design movement or era

• Post Modernism

• Modernism

• Arts & Crafts Movement

• Hipster Movement

Mass production makes products cheaper in price

• True

• False

Mass production leads to cheaper quality products

• True

• False