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Interview with Dieter Rams, the crusading German designer of Braun products and much besides High-tech consumer durables have a reputation for falling apart. But planned obsolescence does not account for the problems of repair The forgotten history of Pearl Harbor Japan’s attack on the US 70 years ago was not a surprise, but rather the culmination of imperial rivalry Just because your email Inbox is brimming doesn't mean that the real pace of change is accelerating. Panel discussion The end is nigh: is survival all we can hope for? In their policies for energy and for the economy, British politicians hold up continued existence as the maximum goal we should strive for Is Britain drowning in too much packaging? The wrapping that our food, mod-cons and medications come in is not 'evil' - it is a product of civilisation Straddling both art and design: an interview with Milton Glaser Milt Glaser put Bob Dylan in silhouette on a memorable poster (1967), and designed the red-hearted I Love NY logo (1975). Now the subject of a Sky Arts documentary, I talked to him 20 years ago Anna Hazare: apostle of political hygiene Why India's middle-class warriors against corruption aren’t so heroic How colour will likely change the urban landscape in future One year on: learning the lessons of Deepwater Horizon BP became so obsessed with irrational management practices and petty health-and-safety measures that it overlooked the real safety of its workers A year after the explosion at BP's Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, an earlier, much deadlier blast in British waters still has plenty of relevance Yuri Gagarin’s brave, brilliant leap into the dark On the 50th anniversary of the first manned flight space, we need more of Gagarin’s old daring Budgeting for a dismal no-growth future For all their talk of innovation, the Lib-Cons are more concerned with pinching pennies than investing Management issues for design businesses To win through with clients, designers need to master future trends, communicate their ideas with the maximum clarity, do good research, and also closely follow developments in innovation and marketing In new products and services, an orientation to realism and to engineering in its broadest sense will ensure that design's answers are substantive, not superficial |
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