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Nick Butler: the product designer as anti-hero Nick Butler died in early 2012. Here, in a rare and relatively early interview, he explains why, despite being one of Britain's most successful 20th century designers, he preferred to keep a low profile King Miranda: designers as priests at technology's altar The Milan-based studio gives a master class on how desingers should mediate technology with humanism David King: graphic designer, ranged left When once he art edited the Sunday Times colour supp, David King brought picture after picture of Leon Trotsky to the breakfast-tables of Britain. Nearly 30 years ago, this is his first ever major interview FHK Henrion: graphics as propaganda in World War II In the 1940s FHK Henrion did some of the world's most passionate posters; in the 1960s, he helped create the face of post-war Britain. Just four years before his death, I talked to him at his house in Hampstead Open innovation, the linear model of innovation, and risk avoidance Kitchen interview on how companies abdicate responsibility for innovation Innovation: what is it and who spends money on it? Kitchen interview on the basics of new products and services, R&D, state intervention and the role of basic scientific research Rare earths and not-so-rare tensions Barack Obama's threat to take China to court for hoarding precious elements is more than just a trade dispute Innovation: the picture in energy and in pharmaceuticals Kitchen interview on the barriers – both real and assumed – to progress in the two sectors Fracking and Fukushima: our energy security fears 'When I hear the phrase "energy security", I reach for my revolver'. Debate with Professor Gordon MacKerron, director of Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, and Tanya Morrison, government relations manager, climate change, Shell International All this carbon-cutting is a waste of energy Neither Boris Johnson nor Ken Livingstone is willing to deliver the uninterrupted, cheap energy London needs The historical and social reasons why hip designers talk of little else. Plus: elements of an alternative Given the alacrity with which design managers uphold and then forget about future trends, it's worth asking: Where do such trends really come from? How can we forecast the next one, and be sure that it won't simply be a transient fad? Europe's railways need to up their game in IT Making a molehill out of a mountain Clint Eastwood’s biopic of J Edgar Hoover is more about the man’s personal identity than his historical significance How design got High Streed cred The British High Street began to swing in the 1960s. By 1988, the frothiest year of the Thatcher decade, it really hurtled Next Page |
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