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Book '08

John Maeda

When I lived in Japan, I had the fortune of taking a break from computers. I was attending an art school which offered few computing resources, an intentional move on my part. The period was pre-web and, therefore, pre-Google. Desiring to find something new to me that quite often turned out to be something old, I found myself regularly in the library. It contained an unusually strong collection of books on kinetic art, which I attributed to a leading contemporary sculptor who taught at the school, Morio Shinoda, a pioneer of avant-garde kinetic sculpture...keep reading

Book '08

Niel Tierney

Three parallel streams are available to advance the reputation and opportunity for UK industrial design within the global research and development ecosystem: make Research & Development profitable, make R&D sustainable, navigate to strategy... keep reading

Book '08

Joseph Giacomin

Ask a any selected person on the street what is meant by good design and the response will very likely involve tables or chairs. With luck, the respondent may prove more engaging and may articulate a point of view which is based on concepts such as "form", "function" or "emotion". And yet, even such an articulate passer-by would still be missing the point, because such a response is more typical of the 20th century than of the 21st... keep reading