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Design Classics No. 5
Posted by: David Keech on 22nd Jul 2008 in Design Classics

Harman Kardon SoundSticks
When this super slick three-piece speaker system first appeared in July 2000, no one had seen anything quite like it before. Eight years later they still look the business, and with some second generation tweaks still manage to look like a piece of radical design. They sound good too...



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Design Classics No. 4
Posted by: David Keech on 25th Jun 2008 in Design Classics

Bush TR.82 Radio
From 1954 and designed by David Ogle Associates, our longest standing British design consultancy, now Ogle Noor Ltd. A landmark in consumer product design and British innovation and manufacturing.


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Design Classics No. 3
Posted by: David Keech on 26th Feb 2008 in Design Classics

The Observer's Books
First published in 1937 by Fredrick Warne & Co. these books are compact, beautiful, ubiquitous. Seldom lauded as landmarks in the history of design. Until now that is...




Design Classics No. 2
Posted by: David Keech on 13th Nov 2007 in Design Classics

Ordnance Survey Maps
My own favourite being a 1:50 000 First Series from 1976, sheet 141 to be precise. An object of great beauty and supreme usefulness. The images here are from the OS's own excellent web-based "Get-a-map" service. Here you can OS your way across the whole of Britain in an intriguing and symbolic way.




Design Classics No.1
Posted by: David Keech on 16th Oct 2007 in Design Classics

The Early iPod
Am I really the only person who still uses the original iPod? Well technically it?s a ?2nd generation? one, because I bought it at the end of 2002.