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This volume:

• Emphasizes the importance of design in daily life
• Traces the history of the chair
• Explores the role of the designer
• Investigates geometry, pattern and design

Essential question: How does artistic design affect your daily life?

Video: Seat Yourself: The Chair and the World of Design
Inspired by Cranbrook Art Museum’s world famous collection of designer chairs from the 1950s, this video explores the impact of design in our everyday lives, the role of the designer, the nature of the design problem-solving process and the use of simple criteria to evaluate many types of product design.

Seat Yourself was developed in collaboration with Design Michigan, a statewide design awareness program of Cranbrook Academy of Art funded by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. Design Michigan’s Design Futures program provides resource materials, curricula and Teachers’ Institutes on design-based education.

CD ROM : The Geometry of Pattern and Design introduces students to the concept of design and examples of design in everyday life. The CD ROM includes a virtual tour of the Cranbrook campus and students learn about the history of the Cranbrook Art Museum through an interactive timeline. Students explore careers in design, create their own geometric patterns and tessellations and look at patterns in nature.

• Interactive virtual reality tour of the Saarinen House
• Segment on careers in design
• Photo tour of the Cranbrook Art Museum
• Visual explanation of the Golden Rectangle