The Tear Drop

Streamlining 

When the human started to discover speed he was trying to improve more in hydrodynamic and aerodynamic. Designers started to use the tear drop shape. This was very popular in the 1930´s but its used know a day for purposes not for eye pleasing only. Designers were using the same shapes for everything example vacuum cleaner, lamps, pencil sharpeners, cars, trains, etc …

They also had fixed prices to the products.. Even the advertising was changing by doing posters of the product. They weren´t inventing new stuff the were adopting the product to the streaming effect (tear drop effect). The product were coming in different colours this even helped the growing of economy (market).

This also happened because of the Great depression (1929) the governments wanted the designers to design new things so the economy will get back on it feet.

Audi s1 

The Audi s1 had a bubble shape so it had less friction with air.

Henry Dreyfuss (1904 – 1972)

‘Model 150′ vacuum cleaner, 1935, for Hoover

Henry Drefuss

Steam iron, 1948, for General Electric Co.

Henry Dreyfuss

J-3a New York Central´s premier train

 Henry Dreyfuss

Top 10 fastest train in the world 

These are product that were modified so they could be in the market at that time.

Raymond  Loewly pencil sharpener

Walter Dorwin Teague, Desk Lamp model 114

Here we can see how streamlining is used now a days, actually not all things need to be improved like this chair but that the style comes in. 

Ross Lovegrove, Go Chair 1999

Scott Patt, Athletic Shoes Air Max Contact, 2001

BMW i8 (2013-14)

Lamborghini Veneno (2013)

At the streamlining  effect on moving transport by using less fuel and improved in speed.

Now a days automobiles, aeroplanes etc.. are being perfected by wind tunnel experimentation. Technology is helping by even using computer simulations.

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