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Product Design Off Book

by Dan on December 12, 2011

The latest short film from PBS Arts Off Book is all about product design:

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Kenneth Grange | Crane.tv

by Dan on August 4, 2011

82-year old British industrial designer Kenneth Grange has designed some of the most iconic products and appliances of modern British life — Kodak cameras, the Intercity 125 train, Kenwood food mixers, Parker pens, and the 1997 London black cab.

Crane.tv spoke with Grange at the opening of Making Britain Modern, a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Design Museum in London:

Making Britain Modern runs until October 30th 2011:

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A Taxonomy of Office Chairs

May 4, 2011

A Taxonomy of Office Chairs by Jonathan Olivares and published by Phaidon is a visual overview of the evolution of the modern office chair and detailing the most innovative chairs designed and built from the 1840s to the present. In this video, Olivares talks about the book and the importance of the office chair in [...]

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The Abolition of Built-In Obsolescence

March 29, 2010

A nice short video about Dieter Rams’ design philosophy and the recent exhibition of his work at the Design Museum London: What has this got to do with books? Well, it’s a timely reminder to care about what we make… (video via Coudal Partners’ Fresh Signals) Tweet

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Monday Miscellany, October 26th, 2009

October 26, 2009

The brilliant Helen Yentus has redesigned the covers of Chinua Achebe’s books for Anchor with illustrations and hand lettering by Edel Rodriguez who has some amazing sketches of her work on the series at her portfolio site.  (Covers first seen at wonderful Caustic Cover Critic blog, with additional details and links from estimable John Gall.) [...]

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