Tag: Charles and Ray Eames

Rare Eames House Walkthrough

I’m still amazed by the Eames house every time I see videos,pictures of it. From the driveway up to the house it is a visual treat. It is almost as if it makes you want to keep going and to look inside.  When it shows Eames Demetrios entering It shows I believe the kitchen at 2:00 in and I love the simple layout of not having a huge table there. One major thing I noticed after watching this is that it seems as if everything has a particular purpose and is carefully placed throughout the house.

I wonder how it looks now compared to this video being shot via 1997.

I Cannot Take you Serious As A Designer If

  1.  You Do not have a portfolio site
  2. Your not googleable
  3. You don’t have business cards
  4. Your designing just for the money
  5. You have a Facebook fan page as your portfolio site
  6. You use helvetica for everything
  7. You have no Idea who Charles And Ray Eames Are
  8. You don’t care about doing Great work
  9. You just put work on your portfolio site to fill the space
  10. You don’t know anyone in your city that is a graphic designer

I’m sure there are more that I could come up with. This is just a list of things that I have seen online or experienced myself and did wrong.

So what are somethings that you’ve seen or experienced?

The Eames Lifestyle

The Charles and Ray Eames Lifestyle is one of the many that I am still in love with. One of the many things that I am influenced by is how charles and ray did not just stick with furniture design. They both branched out and did other things involving design.

Ray was a painter and Charles was an architect. Ray had said that she felt that what they were doing was still painting just another form of it. Because how quick are we to get used to doing just one type of design. Just think of how much better design would be if we experimented with web instead of graphic or video instead of web.

Remembering that everything you do whether it be work,play or anything that you do daily it is an experiment. The experiment is one that you determine how it will go. Charles and Ray experimented and did what they enjoyed and were passionate about.

If you want to live an Eames lifestyle Watch the PBS documentary The architect and the painter.

After watching the architect and the painter you will get a grasp on how they lived their lives. Minus the love affairs and etc.

Charles and Ray Eames Furniture

I found this video while searching around on youtube. The Song is pretty funny and awesome at the same time. Guess what I sat in an eames Lounge Chair. Sitting in an eames chair is like nothing else. The Leather was remarkable and so comfortable that I did not want to get up. I’m starting to see more and more of eames furniture around which is remarkable. But Charles and Ray eames are some amazing designers.


Heres a picture of the Eames Lounge Chair that I am definitely going to purchase for my home and that I sat in as well.






Powers of Ten

This is one of the first films I ever seen from charles and Ray Eames. Seeing this really opened me up to the possibility of the creativity that a video camera can possess. When they started zooming into the guy I got pretty scared being able to see what makes up a human body. But still amazing to think this was made in 1977.