Examples of strong Soviet design Bashny.Net

September 11 - the day of cut glass, one of the iconic symbols of the Soviet byta.Sovetsky design was simple and elegant - like a faceted glass as a string bag as condensed milk and a refrigerator Lyubinskaya "Zeal."

Mikhail Gorbachev showing foreign journalists to the famous design of the dial of his watch "Rocket", said that the restructuring "is the beginning of life from scratch." But it is good to start all over again, betraying forgotten the experience of previous generations? And what can we learn today from the Soviet design?

These are things each of us remember from childhood: string bag, the car "Zaporozhets", faceted glass and school uniforms ... And hardly anyone could be assessed in terms of "beautiful" or "ugly" - used the fact that it was.

It is time a new look, with a height of modern times, to look at the best examples of Soviet industrial and graphic design, arts and crafts and fashion design. This is not just a cute retro gizmos, but the result of systemic, functional, aesthetic and humanistic approach to design engineering.

In honor of the birthday of one of the main symbols of the Soviet Union, Website is a unique design examples of native things from the Soviet era.



faceted glass

Happy birthday this glassware is considered to be September 11, 1943. As history shows, on this day at the glass factory in Gus-Crystal was released the first Soviet faceted glass. Design Faceted glass of Soviet-style credited Vera Mukhina - author of the monumental composition "Worker and Collective Farm» ( Note: The site - not confirmed, probably a legend em>). Ignatyevna developed specifically for the shape of glass Soviet catering.



Thanks to a smooth ring, marching in a circle, and distinguishes it from the traditional form of cut glass, was not only extremely durable, but also convenient for dishwasher. Therefore, it is actively used in street vending carbonated beverages. And for many years prescribed in the table and on the railways.



Hoover "The Seagull", produced since 1963 in the factory "Kommunar", the Soviet Union, just released 2, 5 million copies



Folding metal mesh egg



A container for sewing, 1960s



Radio



Toy "Tumbler»



Refrigerator "Zyl»



Condensed milk. This Soviet masterpiece. You can cook directly in the bank



Maker



Packaging of yogurt

One of the best examples of economical and environmentally friendly design. The color and the stripes on the cover indicate the type of product. Easy, clear and cheap.

Avoska

"One of the best examples in the field of Soviet design. If you care about environmental problems and pollution, over-consumption - know that this bag has become a viable solution to some of the problems many years ago. Avoska seems to me a reasonable part of the system, a systematic view of design in which products are bought at exactly the quantities in which they are needed, rather than a "reserve". They are not packed several times, and the bag can be used repeatedly and consistently carry - string bag is compact and does not take place. I am confident, modern designers have to pay on this subject the most attention, "- says a specialist in industrial design, teacher of the British Higher School of Design Umberto Giraudo.



Siphon, glass, metal



Table lamp "Rainbow 1-80", the second half of the 1970s



Scales household



Tear-off calendar. Margin sheets, physically felt during the time

Coffee

Note designer Umberto Giraudo: "Sweetheart package. Simple, economical to manufacture, only two colors, and still looks very modern. I would love to buy a pack of coffee - it looks much more authentic than all the plastic debris in which the coffee is packed today ».

Condoms Comment designer Umberto Giraudo, "The packaging is very functional. It is absolutely not "emotional," but I do not think that, in certain circumstances, someone paid attention to it. I like ».



Soviet Tetra

Triangular milk package - not fully Soviet invention. Lines for such a package in the USSR supplied the Swedish company Tetrapack. In 1943, the laboratory «Åkerlund & Rausing» started the development of the milk carton packaging in 1944. Erik Wallenberg, a young assistant acting as head of the research laboratory, invented the packaging in the form of a tetrahedron formed from the cone-shaped piece of paper.



School uniforms

Note designer Umberto Giraudo: "Quite elegant and perfectly reflects the formal hierarchical status. I also wore the uniform, when I went to school. However, I should note that today this form would have looked rather at the waitress, or a student, but not on the students in the school ».



"Zaporozhets»

"This masterpiece of Soviet design - despite the fact that it was based on the design of FIAT. In "Zaporozhets" has unique features, such as grille on the hood, which gives the image of the car some aggressiveness. I never saw "Zaporozhets" in life, but I've heard many stories about these machines. In particular, how they repaired and beautified, "- says a specialist in industrial design, teacher of the British Higher School of Design Umberto Giraudo.

In the USSR, industrial design was!

According to the materials: Slon, MoscowDesignMuseum

via www.moscowdesignmuseum.ru/exhibitions/1/