Designing Barbie: Manufacturing, Materials, and Miscalculations

[@MsCheapface]

Thank you Mathew Bird for adding to your design history content! I was so happy to get this alert! Please, you offer so much...don't be a stranger...keep feeding us design romantics the good nourishment! I appreciate you.

[@rokurussell9862]

Dr. Bird! You're back on KZbin! We missed you! Your history of design course kept us (70 y o retirees) enthralled during the covid lockdown.

[@HeatherFeather257]

We missed you, Matthew! Thank you for the new “class”! 😊

[@ballpointdoll]

thats so interesting that YKK created a new tiny zipper just for the barbie clothes! never heard it before. great video!

[@Tito_Viera]

Thanks Matthew is feels and it is really good see you again taking us in a excursion in the fields of industrial design. Always something to learn with you.

[@rompompomkladivo6623]

Im so happy to see a new video from the professor Bird too. I thought the vids ended as the epidemic came to an end. Very happy morning. Regards to the professor from Slovenia!

[@DigitalMastery]

I also have zero care about Barbie, but could listen to you talk about it for hours. You are so passionate about design history and make it so interesting that I love you KZbin channel. I hope you keep up with posting new content whenever you have time since I don't know of many other sources for info about design history that is as engaging as what you produce.

[@ballpointdoll]

i haven't been able to find footage of how the decal face printing on modern barbies work. recently, barbie dolls have been coming out with very pixelated faces that don't look very good due to the low dpi and unpleasantly glossy look (not a big problem for kids, just us adult doll fans). i was looking for footage of how that actually works at the factories but can't find any. do you happen to know of any videos or photos of that process?

[@hogan3372]

Such an interest perspective! Usually i only see history on the culture of barbie not the actual manufacturing. Thank you!

[@AnnaMacgregor1969]

The sequence in which we get to see a moment of the manufacturing phase of doll heads is creepier/better than any horror movie’s special effects! Fascinating and entertaining lecture- ¡Muchas gracias, Maestro Matt!

[@JenEdin]

Thank you, Prof Bird! I’ve missed your lectures. I’ve never thought about the details about Barbie’s design evolution and I learned a lot! Love your jacket! Cheers!

[@msrainsford2513]

This has made my day - my week - my MONTH! I ran to make a cup of coffee and now I’m glued to the screen. Welcome back, Matthew!

[@deborahdavis6801]

Have missed you and what an amazing job you do presenting sooo much information on primarily the industrial design but also the social comments. Please keep doing these!!!

[@eris7070]

omg!!!! new video!!!! yes!!!!! what a wonderful treat, didn't think we'd ever hear from you again hahaha

[@1st1anarkissed]

Wow, I never would have thought someone could make me appreciate barbie, but this tech innovation history really has done it. fascinating!

[@estherwijnbeek8072]

That was one of the best documentaries on toy history I have seen; Bravo! I have always been interested in how and why things are being made and this video gave me more insights.

[@armymenaroundthehouse]

Thanks for another great lecture. It's hard to explain how much help I've found for my hobby work in your lectures.

[@patriciaburns1033]

Oh my giddy aunt!, The fourth largest clothes manufacturer in America is crackers, dolls clothes?, My heart literally leapt when your vid popped up Mathew, I constantly refer to your content to prove points and find info, this is an excellent showcase of the evolution of the skinny plastic woman throughout her history, thank you for sharing your mind blowing knowledge and gorgeous, quirky taste, it's such a treat, Bravo!

[@Tirebouchon325]

So happy to see you posting a video. Excellent content, as always. Made me care about Barbie way more than I want to.

[@Polkadotpup]

I’m so glad to see you posting. Great video….I look forward to more.

[@hebakhalifa5672]

Thank you very much for uploading and was very happy to see the notification of your new upload, your lectures are always interesting and truly informative and much appreciated

[@pieternoordenbos]

Just great to see that you're back Mathew Bird. I am not a student but I learned a lot watching your vids. I hope to see more vids of you in the near future. Could you make an episode about the glass industry in France at the beginning of the Art Nouveau era?

[@petr0w]

I remember my mom having some weird bald Barbie's that came with bubble cut wigs, now I'm so curious if they were off brand or not

[@carolinecog]

Missed your content so much!!!

[@lisad1993]

I am constantly telling people lately about Wheels n Heels, so this makes me ecstatic :)

[@keithluck8517]

I am very happy to see you again and gain insight with this latest installment of History of Industrial Design! Keep up the good work...despite the motorcycles. ;-)

[@fontenbleau]

Wow, new video, we waited so much 😍😌 patiently for your great lectures.

[@delusionnnnn]

Always a pleasure to see another video on this channel.

[@onscreenstudio7070]

Thank you so much for uploading these videos. I took your class when I went to risd and think about it all the time.

[@isaacraine]

thank you so much - you are always fascinating and what I learn in these lectures applies allover in life.

[@hopelesswonderchild]

GREAT TO SEE YOU AGAIN MISTER ! ! !

[@brunollos1111]

Thank you for this video, and the pink! Cheers!

[@annav4055]

Huge thanks for this video! It was really interesting:) hope to see more vids from you.

[@fontenbleau]

I hope you will make with some startup an Ai assistant with your voice or figure 😊

[@wilderdede]

Bravo. Like all your lectures, fascinating. Hope you return to some of the mentioned but unexplored details? I loved the movie for its' political insight and the art direction. Never had a Barbie.

[@urlyturtle]

Was never interested in Barbie, or dolls generally (unless one counts a gifted Ginny doll with “polio shots” - staple holes in her back from clothes torn off by me), but your ID lens looks fascinating! Thanks Matthew, and thanks for pointing me to your yt channel!❤

[@jerazi3936]

Vielen Dank, für ihre erhellenden Videos / Gedanken/Ausführungen zu Industriedesign! Ich schätze diese sehr. >>> Thank you for your enlightening videos/thoughts/explanations on industrial design! I appreciate these very much.

[@imabarbiecollector]

Why did they get rid of the holes in the feet stand? I get improvements but getting rid of the stand is crazy to me all the flimsy stands they just seam to get worse by the year. The holes in the feet stand are perfect I love when I get a reproduction doll that has that stand! ❤❤

[@marrs_andersen]

Fascinating! Thank you!!

[@abzh1976]

Thank you so much for this! Really informative and interesting. ❤

[@stephanelacoste2904]

Merci

[@twestgard2]

This was very interesting. Thank you.

[@amazingsing]

I must know where you found the original fashion viewmaster slides! I’ve been looking everywhere for them and can’t find them anywhere

[@MatthewXerxesBird]

For the exhibition, we realized it would be easier to just acquire all of the toys, which took a year of eBay combing, but worked great. Then three years later, I got to liquidate the collection and sold most of it again eBay. I could not believe my luck finding those ViewMaster images because they transformed the exhibition (20' high projection!). And I was amazed that I was unable to sell them after. I sold every other thing, and they are sill here waiting for me to get them to a next home... I have never seen another one.

[@lisalucas2614]

Love this video.

[@nijoodubey3164]

coral red jacket 😍

[@slime0612]

omg you are back

[@PolRaDaemon]

Absolutely smashing video! Very interesting, and I have zero interest in Barbie as a doll or movie. It was interesting to see how similar advancements have affected "action figures" and vinyl/resin statuary.

[@frida507]

This was interesting!

[@jayerjavec]

Still alive and mysterious. That's a good day in my book.

[@lousylionn455]

This is a wonderful video, but I really feel it skimmed past bild lilli. This isn't a video about bild lilli of course but I feel it doesn't give her near enough credit

[@harleyreed1888]

Would it be totally unhinged of me to suggest someone should make merch for super fans of History of ID as taught by Matthew Bird?

[@HomeBuiltByHoward]

As a designer and teacher, my wife won't listen to me talk about design no matter how excited I am... But she loves your content! Please, please, please make more.

[@YellowFreesias]

Thank you for suffering through this lecture for us! 😂

[@BlakeGildaphish76]

i never understood why children liked to chew on their dolls, even when i was a child. It never made sense to me.

[@ישראלישראלי-ל1ז]

OMG yes

[@shawnbay2211]

i care about barbie; i care about sociology; and i care about design. this fulfils two 😁. wh says one cant be multifaceted? certainly not barbie, lol.

[@clarissafortuna]

love your videos! my favorite youtube boyfriend 💘

[@danjohnston3422]

Holy hell - so much terrible hair. I kinda like Mutant Zombie Barbie. Cut her ponytail and suddenly Barbie's world gets pretty frickin' dark... And it's very cool that American Girl Barbie has a dueling scar.