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Architectural Design was the first British commercial architectural press to feature the work of Archigram. Archigram were formed in London, in 1960. They were an experimental collective of architects that designed cities of the future, inspired by technology and consumer culture.

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Architectural Design, November 1970. Issue designed by Archigram
Architectural Design, November 1970. Issue designed by Archigram
Architectural Design, November 1970. Issue designed by Archigram
Architectural Design, November 1970. Issue designed by Archigram
Architectural Design, November 1970. Issue designed by Archigram
Architectural Design, November 1970. Issue designed by Archigram
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Kinetic art refers to art the depends on movement for its desired effect and is closely related to op art. Upon scanning a few of the inner inserts from the Kinetics exhibition catalogue from the Hayward Gallery, London, 1970, I came across these five small manifestos on kinetic art.
Ken was born in 1929, in Southampton and grew up in a small market town in North Devon. He was a principled man, with strong values and views against the hyper-consumerism we live with today. Ken studied at the London Central School of Arts and Crafts in the 1950s and was taught by Herbert Spencer, Anthony Froshaug and Jesse Collins. Whilst at the School he studied alongside designers Ken Briggs, Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes.

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I first came across Kens work in the Unit Edition’s superb monograph, Structure and Substance, published in 2012. Although I had owned a few of the British industrial design magazines, Design, for a few years before, in which Ken had designed numerous covers for.

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“Der Druckspiegel” typographic supplement May 5, 1967, was focused on a selection of the winning entries from Die besten Plakate des Jahres featuring over fifty winning entries.