The RCA is where Sir James Dyson chanced upon engineering and discovered ‘the beauty in mechanics’. Drawing for Dyson Air Multiplier (tm) Fan (2011) While at Gresham’s school in Norfolk, I had considered becoming either a doctor or an artist, although my handlebar-moustached careers adviser suggested I become an estate agent. Following the careers officer’s ‘advice’, I did go off to speak with an estate agent and even applied to be a doctor. I went for an interview at St Mary and St George’s hospitals. For some bizarre reason they offered me a place. But it didn’t take long for the medic at St George’s to recommend art. I knew he was right. And so I chose Byam Shaw in London, because under the principal Maurice de Sausmarez it had an excellent reputation. I did one year at Byam Shaw with Bridget Riley teaching us. We were taught very well how to draw – it’s the foundation of everything. What was missing, though, was that I had yet to discover there were other things you could do besides paint and draw. Maurice recommended I apply to the Royal College of Art. Drawing is still the best way to communicate ideas quickly – that’s why all the engineers here carry a sketchbook. CAD is great for detailed intricacies of design but it all starts with a sketch – a Rotring propelling pencil, 0.9mm with 2B.At the time the College was exclusively a graduate school. But, as luck would have it, it was experimenting by letting ne’er-do-wells in the back door. Well, they accepted three students [including me] without degrees. They were running an experimental scheme by which you could get in straight from school, or having just done a Foundation course. This was during the era of Hugh and Margaret Casson, and among the staff were John Miller, Margaret Dent and the renowned structural engineer, Tony Hunt. The College had grouped us with the Interior Design and Industrial Design people, forming a kind of three-department class. I started with Furniture, but it wasn’t until I stumbled across Hugh Casson’s lectures that I orchestrated a move to Interior Design. At least, it was called Interior Design but it could not have been further away from pillows and plush curtains. While Furniture was about crafting beautiful things, Interiors felt like the nitty-gritty of design. Furniture in those days was all secret lapped dovetails – it never really grabbed me. Hugh had a profound effect on me, though. He taught passionately, and watching him sketch on a blackboard was mesmerising. He had me hooked. Sadly, I never took any of the courses offered by Misha Black in Industrial Design Engineering. Misha was a design heavyweight and I should have taken notice. I was in the same year as the sculptor Richard Wentworth, who started off at the College studying Design before switching to Fine Art. It was fluid in those days and mattered not a jot that you flitted between fields: painting to furniture to interiors to engineering. We were encouraged to explore filmmaking, sculpture and industrial design. I eventually settled on engineering, and Richard on sculpture. When I started at the RCA, I didn’t have a clue what engineering was about. I chanced upon it but saw the beauty in mechanics – I was hooked. Of course, I had some catching up to do: maths is indispensible to understanding structural concepts. During the 1960s and ’70s at the College, non-conformity was positively celebrated and young people were creating their own culture. We were enjoying life to the full – there were even a few protest marches. I traded in wine to make ends meet, supplying staff and the Junior Common Room. I wasn’t hedonistic or renegade, but I did have quite long hair, wore the odd flowery shirt and had bell-bottoms made in Kensington Market. I honestly just became absorbed in my London studies, although it hardly felt like studying. It was an adventure. My peers were, and still are, some of the most exciting artists and designers around. David Hockney was already fetching high prices at [John] Kasmin’s gallery, and I remember Ossie Clark graduating with flashing light bulbs down the front of a dress. And the late Anton Furst was also a fan of Buckminster Fuller. Tony Hunt had a profound influence on me. I’d never met anyone like him. He was as passionate about the aesthetics of a structure as he was about workings. He also introduced me to the geodesic world of Buckminster Fuller. Buckminster Fuller could envisage ideas that were beyond conventional lines of thought. Wrong thinking. He inspired me to go on and design large-span structures, well, a geodesic theatre in London for Joan Littlewood. I’d met Joan at a Bohemian hangout in Clerkenwell. I overheard her saying that she wanted to build a new theatre at Stratford East. Under the influence of Buckminster Fuller and space-frame structures, I designed an aluminium mushroom-shaped lattice, though unfortunately, we didn’t have enough funding to build it. Somehow I’ve managed to approach most of my ventures in an unconventional way – the wrong way can sometimes turn out to be the right way. Even at the RCA I went off cue. I was studying Interior Design but built a high speed, flat-hulled fibreglass landing craft as my final year project. Jeremy Fry, founder of Rotork and my industry mentor, tapped into my desire for making things. Off the cuff he had mentioned he wanted to make a boat. Jeremy had already been working on it, but he wanted me to finalise it. I would get away from the RCA as often as possible to test prototypes. Hugh Casson was never anything less than encouraging and let me get on with it. He awarded me a 2:1, despite not having actually designed an interior. When you look at the projects coming out of the Innovation Design Engineering course over the timeframe of, say, 2010 to 2012, and compare the students and their work to that of the late 1960s, I suppose the biggest difference is a greater commercial focus now. It is an exciting and challenging time to be a design engineer. Technology is progressing faster. New materials are emerging. And people are becoming harder to please. To compete globally, British designers are needed more than ever. https://www.rca.ac.uk/study/the-rca-experience/student-voices/rca-luminaries/sir-james-dyson/
他父亲是四百年老私立寄宿学校的Classic教师,不幸早逝。学校资助James Dyson在本校完成学业. 完成中学学业后James去学习绘画,graduate school读了Royal College of Art的, 修设计。
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实实在在的行业, 华人大妈不懂也不想了解 估计她们还不知道 DYSON 是什么意思.
哈哈哈
James Dyson不肯上市的 他儿子随爹 估计要等到第三代-假设那时候还有这个公司才肯吧
真希望 这个公司, 还有德国的 Miele 公司, 美国的苹果公司合并.
这三家公司的设计理念 特别 象德国的 Bauhaus 思想,
设计的极其简洁, 优美.
如果英国人, 德国人 和美国人 三个国家合并, 一起对付中共,
早就把中共打得不知道去哪里了.
哈哈哈
怎么可能,dyson可是华人大妈的最爱。dyson吸尘器、吹风机、卷发棒,华人大妈爱的不得了。
还有餐馆洗手间的干手机
德国大学, 电影院, 购物中心的厕所里 都用的 DYSON 的干手机
他家的干手机真是 好用啊
这个干手机真好用啊
哈哈哈
感觉 DYSON 在中国不如德国啊
德国这里, 每一个家电商场, 百货大楼都有 Dyson 的专门柜台啊.
而且经常打折, 在德国各大媒体做广告
而 DYSON 在中国, 只有大城市才有人知道, 中小城市绝大部分人都没听过啊
德国这里, DYSON 几乎家喻户晓吧
真希望 DYSON 公司 快点 和 Miele 公司合并.
最后再和 苹果公司合并最好.
这三家公司 是 英国, 德国和美国的精华.
Dyson 的吸尘器设计的真美啊
Miele 的洗碗机, 洗衣机, 厨房家电等设计的真美
另外苹果的手机和电脑设计的真美
这三家公司真是 包豪斯设计的 典范啊!!
哦,原来如此 不过上市的公司一般来讲是为了获得大量资金来扩大规模。他家主要是产品设计,然后生产这个产品,貌似确实不需要融资
我一直觉得。。。
制造业的企业 宁肯搞国有化交给桑德斯 也不要上市交给MBA们管。。。
中文翻译里面隐含的价值观有点,,,,,如果他没有取得商业成功,他的人生专注而有趣,仍然是成功的。还有吃软饭也不存在吧,英国的福利,靠三个娃也能过的不错啊。不过老婆不势力,这种修养值得称赞。
中国很难产生 Dyson , Miele 这种 家族老企业.
中国人现在都喜欢搞些乌烟瘴气, 虚无缥缈的东西. 整个社会的社会文化 肤浅, 庸俗, 恶俗, 没有文化, 没有信仰, 基本是个文化的沙漠.
不好这么比的,Dyson在美国我觉得算性价比很高的产品,挺好用的,价格也不算贵,好看
在中国除了大城市,一般地区承受不了这么贵的产品,你看看淘宝一堆小电器多便宜呀
希望华人女生多多学习 德国女生默大妈 !!
多做一些实实在在的工作!!
不要成天 搞些虚无缥缈的东西 , 成天就是钱钱钱!!
看看德国女生和英国女生, 她们很独立啊!!
另外嫁人多嫁一些如 Dyson 大叔这种 又帅又能干的工程师啊!!
不要成天就是吹些 马云之类的垃圾和虚无缥缈的东西!!
感觉中国女生的问题很大很大!!
完全和英国德国女生不一样!!
感觉 中国女生 受中国文化的毒害很大很大.
整个社会都是流行庸俗, 恶俗的东西!!
造成了中国女生很愚昧无知,
相比德国和英国女生, 中国女生差很多很多.
导致了中国社会陷入了一种 庸俗 和文化的沙漠.
其实英国也没多少福利可以吃呀
取决于住在哪个区。英国的富人区也是有council house的,极低价格租给穷人,电气免费随便用,每个孩子都有补助,而且孩子越多分的房子越大。有黑人大妈带五个孩子住百万英镑大房子的。而且council house连续给一家人住几年之后就可以极低价格卖给他们,相当于转手送他们几十万镑。
德国把这种房子 叫 WBS 房子.
一般属于 合作社 和 国有住房公司.
为什么要鄙视华人大妈,好歹都是在美国混了十几年几十年的知识女性!
英国的council house卖了之后就属于个人了,住几年后就可以按市场价卖出。
天啊
英国的体制真是 欧洲的奇葩
太过于自由资本主义了!!
哎
房屋的私有财产在西方社会最恶心.
西方国家的 中东人, 黑人数量极多.
房屋的私有化之后, 很容易被阿拉伯黑社会控制啊.
搞的整个社会乌烟瘴气.