Tingting XuIntro to design452018Rough draft Wha.docx

Tingting Xu
Intro to design
4/5/2018
Rough draft
“What works good is better than what looks good, because
what works good lasts.” said by the famous artist Ray Eames.
Ray Eames was Charles Eames’s wife, they were famous
designer couples during postmodernism period. Their furnitures
won people’s great admiration and compliment at that time
period, and they made a revolution of the ideas of design. The
post-model period was a important turn of feminist critique of
design here, the current tendency to question dominant value
systems and interpretations of history indicates a loss of faith
inn the single unitary view, which I the case of design history
has always placed it I the male domain.[footnoteRef:1] They
were husband-and-wife team who defined the design was for
living, and their futures are sophisticated and simple,
beautifully but functional. Ray Eames always attend with her
husband name as a work-team. But did Ray enjoyed playing the
role of Charles’s wife? The design object chose is The Eames
Lounge Chair and Ottoman, which was a signature design of
their collection. There was a gender unequal problem between
Charles and Ray Eames, and pick the Eames Lounge Chair and
Ottoman as a guide to explore this husband- wife team deeply
and carefully. [1: Judy Attfield, Feminist Critiques of design
(Design Studies A Reader,2009), 49]
The Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman was made in 1956,
and sold by Herman Miller company. The company used the
Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman to admired that Arlene
Francis introduced it to a national audience on primetime TV on
her home show. It was the first and only chip to achieve such a
platform.[footnoteRef:2] There are two parts of the design, one

is the main chair, and the other one is ottoman. The idea of the
two pieces of design was inspired by English club
chair.[footnoteRef:3] The outlook is very attractive people to
relax on it, because the black letter looks comfortable and
relaxation. The shape of the chair is relaxing too, its little bit
wired to use relaxing to describe a shape. But the slope of the
chair looks like could fit with anybody’s body line and adjust a
perfect angel for each person. The most amazing part is the
ottoman, it is a totally new design with chair at that time period.
And there is a removable rubber slide on feet with metal glides,
also the chair has too. The whole piece use black leather,
including the handle parts of chair. And the chair use of a heavy
rubber washer glued to the backrest of the chair and screwed to
the lumbar support. The purpose of this is for more Ergonomics.
[2: Marlow Hoffman, "12 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW
ABOUT THE EAMES LOUNGE CHAIR &
OTTOMAN,”accessed December 30, 2016,
http://www.eamesoffice.com/blog/12-things-you-dont-know-
eames-lounge-chair-and-ottoman/] [3: Drexler, Arthur.
“Charles Eames: furniture from the design collection, the
museum of modern art, New York,” Journal of the the museum
of modern art, New York, April, 1973.]
The remarkable revolution is they made use of the new
materials, which is plywood. In the early of 1990, the plywood
was made by the Brazilian rouse wood.[footnoteRef:4] They
spent many years to produce a three dimensionally moulded
plywood seat shells that could followed the humans
body.[footnoteRef:5] Finally, they produced a more organic
shape materials for their furnitures design. The plywood is very
light and flexible. And also their plywood materials had a
critical role for U.S. Navy and the military aviation industry.
[4: Drexler, Arthur. “Charles Eames: furniture from the design
collection, the museum of modern art, New York,” Journal of
the the museum of modern art, New York, April, 1973.] [5:
“Plywood Group,”Vitra, https://www.vitra.com/en-

gb/product/plywood-group]
Now, lets talk about the gender equity problem that occur
with that couple. There are secondary sources indicated that the
initial company of Charles and Ray Eames was running by
Charles and Ray Eames. But Charles took all credit of
company’s effort. Because of the sexism of the time, Ray, who
was an equal business parter and also had big contributed to the
design and art was being marginalized and intangibly. There
were lots of situation that show the sexism, the businessmen
only wanted to talk to Charles, to Charles ad Ray. Also the TV
show I mentioned before, the host categorized Ray as a
characterized as the women who supporting her husband.
however, Ray is a artist and who has contributed in their design.
We can’t identified Charles’s real attitude of this gender equity
problem, maybe he was also a man of that times and believing
the sole creative force.
The interview parts to show the deeply relationship
Gender equity is a critical issue that women had been fight
for a long time until now, and lots of female artist was
marginalized because of sexism. Charles and Ray Eames is a
famous signature couples that in the design history, Charles
respect his wife and put her name as a team. This sounds like a
touch story, but a female artist have to be respect by the
publics. Gender is not a problem in front of art. We know that
Ray want to design a single work sometimes, but the society
didn’t accept her. It was a cruel for a artist. We could familiars
with Ray’s name, but how many female artist we lose to
recognized during this interminable history. They had covered
by
old Social secularization, and could’t print their names with
their works. It seems like a tolerant plunder which recognized
by all publics. All the gender unequal issue should disappear for
create a better world. Born as a human, be sure we are not sent
into the world to air our moral prejudices.

PRIMARY CARE Scenario
Type of Care Provided
Scenario
Care in this type of setting is delivered by physicians, physician
assistants, nurse practitioners, and ad-
vanced practice professionals. This area of health care is the
most widely used, and it is a major focus
of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, focusing on primary care
providers and decreasing the focus on the
utilization of specialty providers.
A physicians’ group is negotiating the acquisition of a primary
care provider’s clinic. The primary care
provider’s clinic, which has incurred financial loss over the last
6 years, is being sold for the second time
within the 6-year period. In a meeting to discuss the acquisition,
the team responsible for ensuring the
success of the acquisition is told that the shareholders of the
clinic are very apprehensive and distrustful
of becoming a sister company. When the last company bought
the clinic, the leaders of the parent or-
ganization prepared the employees of the clinic for a great deal
of change. These leaders promised that
the proposed changes would improve the stressful conditions
and financial losses the clinic was current-
ly operating within. The shareholders worked diligently to
prepare for the changes. Unfortunately, most
of the changes never took place, and the small changes that
were initiated did not last. As a result, the
initial announcement of the acquisition was met with great

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