Everyday icons
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The design of the most ordinary everyday objects such as door handles and scissors, is mostly unappreciated by consumers or journalists. The success of such products often depends on impeccable and unacclaimed efforts, while the design industry seems intent on focussing on new and extraordinary products which are basically non-essential. Cappellini's recent commissioning of 24 designers to produce useful, simple household objects may be a step towards generating interest in the mundane.
Publication Name: Design (London, England)
Subject: Architecture and design industries
ISSN: 0011-9245
Year: 1992
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Child's play
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Royal Mail is producing teaching packs that promote art and storytelling as a way of teaching different subjects. The venture is in keeping with its future commercial role as a result of imminent privatisation. Together with Newell and Sorrell, and the Design Council, it has produced a pocket diary for teachers that uses children's illustrations. It also plans to release a set of three T-shirts, stamps and postcards.
Publication Name: Design (London, England)
Subject: Architecture and design industries
ISSN: 0011-9245
Year: 1992
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Brain Waves
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Joy Mountford of Apple Computer set a competition for designers to create the computer of the future, entitled 'Computers For Everyone.' The winning design was submitted by RCA and is a range of devices designed to feed into data 'oceans.' The brief required the combined design ideas for interface and physical forms of at least three computers, including a desktop and a hand held device.
Publication Name: Design (London, England)
Subject: Architecture and design industries
ISSN: 0011-9245
Year: 1992
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