Hans Gugelot

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Hans Gugelot
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Biography

• April, 1 1920 Born in Indonesia to parents of
  Dutch heritage.
• 1934 Moved to Switzerland.
• 1940 Takes up engineering studies at Lausanne.
  Continues education in Zurich studying
  architecture.
• 1945 Graduates.

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Biography

• 1946-1948 Gugelot travels Italy, plays jazz,
  studies architecture, and gets married

1948 Gugelot meets Max Bill and begins to work
with him on first furniture designs
Gugelot Bill
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M125

• In 1950 Gugelot gets his own office and begins
  work on his most famous system, the M125.
• M125 is a modular cupboard system that focuses on
  simplicity and functionality. It would later be
  improved and manufactured in 1956 by Messers
  Wilhlem Bofinger

M125 Storage
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M125
based on the module of 125mm and its multiples,
like 250mm as the ideal depth for bookshelves
and 1250 mm as the ideal width for a bed, a
cabinet or shelves.

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M125
Faltschrankwand Storage

• relationships that a human being finds in
  his environment are also relationships between
  any two objects. there are standards,
  suitabilities, modular systems, complex systems
  and last not least the relationships between
  products and systems. such relationships become
  visible when two objects are placed in a room to
  form special interdependencies.

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Braun

• 1954 Meets Erwin Braun in Ulm.
• 1955 Begins to formally develop first Braun
  products.
• 1957 Braun wins the grand prix of the XI
  triennale in Milan for exemplary program range.

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Braun

• Designs focus on rationality and functionality as
  well as the relationships of the parts as a
  system.

Sixtant Braun Electric Shaver Kit
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Braun

• As Gugelot explains, in each of his designs he
  focuses on the longevity of a rationally
  designed object.

SK Record Player Radio
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Kodak

• 1963 Creates the slide carousel for Kodak, the
  basic design of which is still used today for
  slide projection. This piece is thought of as a
  design classic, having achieved Gugelots goal
  for longevity of design.

Carousel S Kodak Slide Projector
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Subway Trains

• Gugelot worked with Herbert Lindinger from
  1959-62 on the subway trains for Hamburg,
  Germany. The two were commissioned for the
  project with Aicher and Croy.
• The trains were simple yet elegant
• and influenced further train design
• In Europe.

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On Design

• industrial design is concerned with the
  designing of industrial products.
• The designer must have gained enough knowledge,
  skills and experience in order to understand all
  factors that determine the product, to come up
  with a design concept and to get this concept on
  the way in cooperation with all parties involved
  in the planning, developing and manfacturing
  departments, right up to the finished product

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On Design

• the knowledge of science and technology serve as
  a basis for his coordinating design work. his
  aim is to design industrial products, that serve
  society both in a culture and social sense.

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On Design

• The job of designing is as old as the world.
• The hands of people living in the stone age were
• already well suited to create useful
  objects, tools.
• The spirit was developed.
• Armed with consciousness, skills and willpower
  to design they created tools that they could be
  used for a purpose, the hunting and the
  processing of animals. The best suited material
  available was the rough flintstone that could
  only be formed by means of special working
  methods.
• Basically, the process was the beginning of what
  we call 'design'.

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Career End

• Gugelot died September 10, 1965.
• By the time of his death, Gugelot had
  dramatically influenced the philosophy of 20th
  century design by developing the concept of
  system design.