Content includes:
Why are people so busy perfecting things we no longer need ? by Elizabeth Gundrey
Ken and Kate Baynes look at the training of teachers in the of their two articles on design education in schools
Technology needs design – without it, says W. H. Mayall, we may be wasting our technical expertise on totally impractical projects
Dennis Cheetham tells a development story where technology and design went hand in hand
Canada’s National Design Council is sponsoring a major programme of support for new prototype and production designs
A three-part survey of print for industry suggests that better management techniques are needed on both sides of the counter
Comment: on how the new Textile Council could promote closer links between design and technology
Point of view: on prototype furniture / the British Trade Centre in New York / legal protection of industrial designs …
Profile: Monty Berman, managing director of Interiors International Ltd, talks about exporting modern furniture …
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Corporate Identity & Branding, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Many designers played an important role in IBM's graphic identity and implementation including Arthur Boden, Clarence Lee, Charles Keddie and Mary Beresford.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles, Members Only Content, Regional Histories
Ootje Oxenaar designed the summer stamps for the Netherlands using an assignment from De Nederlandsche Bank based on banknotes. The assignment resulted in the collaboration of Oxenaar, the printer, the laboratory and the banking specialist, in which they experimented with the design of securities on printed matter.
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Advertising Design, Corporate Identity & Branding, Design Archive Feature, Regional Histories
IBM puts a premium on functional design, forms and colours which make it far easier for the potential customer to gain an insight. In this respect the IBM methods are exemplary. The IBM already opened studios of artistic and graphic design for its German and Italian offices and a few years ago another such studio was established in Paris. Frank René Testemale was entrusted with its organisation and was appointed its business and art director.
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