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From:Design WeekHugh Pearman pays tribute to pioneering graphic designer Abram Games, who distilled his work down to the bare bones to produce a greater impact I was first bowled over by the work of Abram Games years ago when I got...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 18, Issue 11)WEAPONS. They've always been taboo in the design world. No list of design classics ever includes a Kalashnikov or a Trident missile. We don't talk about weapons in design terms, only political or emotional ones. Weapons...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 18, Issue 15)ANOTHER event to tick off in my diary: I've just finished not going to the Milan Furniture Fair again. That must be, ooh, the 15th year in succession that I have not been. I can add that to the dauntingly long list of...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 18, Issue 20)YOU can get sick of European design, can't you? It's like European fashion - the best, the most audacious, also sometimes the most ridiculous, the least practical. But that, you have to assume, is because in Europe...
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From:Design WeekGraphics that are close to our hearts - VHS navigation symbols or barcodes, perhaps - can say a lot about us. Hugh Pearman on the power of certain emblems I cannot be the only person who screams faintly whenever he...
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From:Design WeekBranding may dominate the creative headlines, but it's design and manufacturing basics that have made Ikea's founder richer than Bill Gates, says Hugh Pearman There is design and design. High design, with big names...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 19, Issue 30)I'm sitting in my Aeron Chair at my Le Corbusier table, thinking about the space-pen race. You remember the story: the US spent millions of dollars developing a pressurised ballpoint pen that worked in weightless...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 16, Issue 43)Hugh Pearman believes there's a distinct line between evolution and revolution and decides Clive Grinyer's book Smart Design isn't life enhancing. Looking at the cover of this book, you wonder whether Sony's cute...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 18, Issue 28)OBJECTS surround us, people like me write about objects, there's a neatness about something that is whole in itself. A car. A building. A corporate logo. A chair. Though think of all these things not as designed objects...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 15, Issue 43)Naff polyester uniforms, appalling food sewed in cramped circumstances, dodgy tailfin logos. And, of course, the evolution of the first-class airline seat into a fetishistic, over-designed and very ugly object. It's all...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 15, Issue 28)Television is the Holy Grail of anyone involved in the design business. There used to be no TV programmes on design, architecture or engineering. Unless you count those strange, washed out offerings found on the Open...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 15, Issue 36)Non-design. I always liked the sound of that. Of the many book projects I have considered and ditched, this is the one that I periodically fetch up from the archives to pat affectionately before consigning it to...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 16, Issue 24)As anyone who works at a desk knows, the trick is to delay the core activity -- whatever it is you're paid to do -- until the last possible moment. Whereupon panic, or guilt, or at any rate boredom, kicks in and makes...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 16, Issue 15)Fashion. As they say, there's no getting away from it. Leggings, anybody? Purge your expression of distaste -- they'll be back, and sooner than you might imagine. In fact, they've probably already returned and vanished...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 16, Issue 40)After wars, atrocities, and disasters, architects build memorials. These can become the most evocative buildings of their age. Sir Edwin Lutyens gave us the cenotaph in London's Whitehall, and the poignant Memorial...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 16, Issue 50)THE things people design become evermore intangible. Who'd have thought, a few years back, that the design of images on screens would become a key part of every graphic designer's portfolio, and a massive new cottage...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 17, Issue 37)Peter York, the man with the sharp suits and improbably perfect hair, once described the character of Britain--by which I think he meant England--as 'punk and pageantry'. He said this on television in front of a live...