Word: designators
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Liesenfeld, Magna's European spokesman, agrees. "The manufacturers are using shared platforms to bring more and more niche vehicles to the market. Those platforms are what everything else is based on. We design a module to fit an existing platform, but it's the carmakers who define the platform." Assemblers usually settle on one or two preferred suppliers for each model, but there is always another supplier ready to jump in if one or more of the chosen stumble. "If Magna doesn't provide the best price, GM can go down the street to somebody else," Magna's Blommers explains...
Systems providers also change the way cars are designed. "First, the existence of these suppliers speeds up the development of the components themselves," Franzen says. "If you are a car manufacturer and design your own seats, you will probably have a new generation of seats every 10 or 15 years. But if you go to a megasupplier, it will probably have eight seat generations in parallel development at any given time. This leads to the second big advantage: it frees up engineers to concentrate on the things that make the designs unique because they don't have...
Powell briefly attended London's venerable Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design before dropping out to work as an assistant designer in theater. Her movie career was launched in the mid '80s when she met director Derek Jarman, with whom she collaborated on Caravaggio...
...period. I look at the period, how it should be, how it could be, and then I do my own version," she says. Next, she scours London for splendid fabrics. "I rarely start with a drawing," says Powell. "I start with a fabric I like and base the design on how that fabric behaves...
Upon hearing him say that, one is tempted to go for a pistol, but after a day of McDonough's instruction in much more than architecture, one sees that his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that--in demonstrable and practical ways--is changing the design of the world. McDonough empathizes with birds because he's a rare one himself, a visionary--half green, half pink--who talks like a communist, thinks like a plutocrat and acts like an ecologist. Indeed, the three points of his abstractly designed universe (he is given to drawing incomprehensible diagrams on any available...