ART AND CRAFTS

Arts and Crafts Movement

The Arts and Crafts philosophy came about mainly because of Ruskin's (1819-1900) social criticism, which is the fair and just relation between individual and society to the qualities of its architecture and to the nature of work. Ruskin considered the sort of mechanized production  created in the industrial revolution to be bland and robotic and he thought that a healthy and moral society required independent workers who designed the things they made. His followers favored craft production over industrial manufacture and were concerned about the loss of traditional skills, but they were arguably more troubled by effects of the factories than by machinery itself .

A critic and writer on various varied topics such as geology, architecture, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy he principally argued that the artist must be true to nature. 

Works such as his 'Modern painters' , together with knowledge he received from travelling he founded the Guild of St. George that is still found today .

streamlining

This Catamaran, built near Toronto, takes performance cruising to a different level like never before. Its intention being as a test to make way for a revolutionary new range of yachting instruments manufactured by Tektron Equipment Corporation, which will then provide more data than has ever been gathered on a multihull before, in term of rig and hull stress against performance on all points of sail and sea states.

The aim of the design was simply to produce the fastest possible 50’yacht with no restrictions taken on the latest technology   for the rig and hull. By designing the hull and deck entirely on the computer using computer graphics and 3D modelling techniques, we were able to produce a very streamlined and advanced hull form for both the under and above water shapes. The computer is able to draw sections through the boat at any angle, therefore we were able to study the air flow across the hulls at the angle that the wind actually flows across the boat.

Shuttleworth design is a multi-award winning design consultancy working with an International client base of yacht design, engineering and naval architecture. John and Orion Shulltlworth are Father and Son. John rapidly gained a reputation for designing fast, strong and safe boats after his major success with Brittany Ferries GB in 1981. His meticulous attention to detail and careful engineering, and his interest in aerodynamic efficiency resulted in a new style of multihulls. Many of his designs are race winners. He has written many articles and has often been an invited speaker. Orion, like his father has a passion for sailing. His experience comes from a diverse range of projects.

After graduating in product design he went on to design production motor yachts for a renowned yacht firm. There he developed extensive skills in 3D CAD and gained an abundance of experience which he later on made good use of when in 2009 began work with Shuttleworth Design.

PROJECT

TECHNICAL

• General
• Length Overall 32.5m
• Beam 16.8m
• Draft 0.875 m (1.78 m to tip of rudder)
• Sail Area 159 m2
• Hull Construction Composite (Glass/Aramid/Foam)
• Deck Construction Composite (Carbon/Nomex)

• Performance
• Speed Max Electric Motoring 12.5 knots
• Speed Max Sailing 20 knots
• Range at 5 knots Electric Motoring Unlimited

• Design
• Exterior Styling Shuttleworth Design Ltd
• Naval Architecture Shuttleworth Design Ltd
• Structural Engineering Shuttleworth Design Ltd

anti design

Anti design – Enzo Mari

Anti design was a design flow and art style movement. This originated in Italy and was around the years 1966- 1980.The movement emphasised on striking colours, scale distortion, also used irony and kitish. An example would be a giant chair that would make you look small. The function of the object was to subvert the way you would think about the object. In architecture this was also known as the Radical Design period. The movement was a reaction against what many avant-garde designers at the time saw as the perfectionist aesthetics of Modernism. The Anti-Design movement sought to gain the power of design to create objects and living spaces that were unique instead of accepting style, consumerism, sales, mass production and greed.  
                                                                                                  
Enzo Mari born in 1932  Novara, Italy and is noted as one of the best designers in future and Anti design. Mari won 4 Compasso D’Oros. His first

Reference:

"Enzo Mari". Wikipedia. N.p., 2016. Web. 2 May 2016.

"Anti-Design - The Art History Archive". Arthistoryarchive.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 2 May 2016.

Bauhaus

Walter Gropius (1883–1969) a German architect. Founded the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany in 1919. It was the most influential modernist art school of the 20^th century whose outlook towards teaching and the understanding of the Art’s relationship to society and technology left a major impact in Europe and the United States after its time. Gropius described this as a “vision for a union of art and design” which expressed a utopian craft guild combining architecture, sculpture and painting into one single expression.

In its early years, the school’s exposure towards romantic medievalism, portrayed itself as a medieval craft guild, which, by the middle of the 1920’s phased out and made way to the new concept of uniting art and industrial design which later on proved to be the most original and important achievement.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895 – 1946)

Hungarian-American Designer, Filmmaker, Painter, Photographer, Sculptor, and Theoretician

Movement: Bauhaus

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, a modernist and experimentalist. Born in Hungary and influenced by Dadaism, Supremacism, Constructivism and debates about photography.

Invited by Walter Gropius, he revolutionised the Bauhaus school’s crucial preliminary course and gave it a more practical, experimental and technological outlook.

He later on moved on into various design aspects such as commercial design, theatre set design, made films and also a magazine art director.

His greatest achievement was the version of Bauhaus teaching which he took over to the United States, where he established a highly prominent Institute of Design in Chicago, which truly left his mark on post-war education.