From the course: Design Foundations: Physical Materials
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The history of design
From the course: Design Foundations: Physical Materials
The history of design
- Materials are the fundamental building blocks of culture, they're so fundamentally important to us that we use materials to describe the eras of time. We talk about stone age, we talk about bronze age, we talk about the iron age, and it's reference to what we were doing at those times. If you look at the stone age, in some parts of the earth it was 1.3 million years or so, and you look at the that they had to do with just that only and only material, whether it was creating tools to help gather, or help tools to make tools, or the help tools that were used for hunting. They managed to take that one material and create a society and a culture based around that one material. And then in the later years, you find that, through the bronze and the iron ages, that we were able to evolve those tools and make more tools, now we're essentially getting a few more materials into the library of offerings here, that they were able to make things, tighter, faster, better, lighter, stronger and…
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