Word: designer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficult. Agendas and aesthetics clashed. The islands are U.S. property, administered by the National Park Service, but the restoration money was doled out by Iacocca's foundation. The islands also have, in this secular republic, almost religious status. Even if there had been a single guiding hand, almost every design decision was bound to displease somebody...
...American Best issue is a story told not only in words but in pictures and graphics that create a narrative of their own. Says Special Projects Art Director Tom Bentkowski, who not only supervised the interior art but designed the cover: "This was a challenge; there was no set of events that we had to explain, like a volcano erupting or an election. Here we were required to craft the pictures and the design to make larger points...
...greatest designers of this century were Americans--Claire McCardell and Charles James--but, truth be told, there is not a designer on the American scene now who can match Armani's bold finesse, never mind the inventiveness of Issey Miyake, the deluxe grace of Yves Saint Laurent or Karl Lagerfeld, the Zen funkiness of Yohji Yamamoto. The best American design tends to be generic, not designer labeled. It would be hard to find, for instance, a designer who has been influenced by Louis Dell'Olio, but it would be equally impossible to find an Italian leather blouson that...
...many of the more established designers around the world pick out Ralph Lauren as the designer they think of as "most American," that may be because Lauren has put his signature, and his galloping Polo logo, onto garments that had been in the national fashion vocabulary for years. From beach house to boardroom, pinstripe to roll collar to penny loafer, Lauren codified and merchandised America's dearest dreams of middle-class elegance, then brokered the fantasies back to the market that inspired them. This has nothing to do with design as practiced by Kawakubo or Miyake, but Lauren has seized...
...advantage was that since Allen-Bradley would be making entirely new + products, it could design them in tandem with the new assembly process. Moreover, by labeling each product at the outset with a computer bar code, Allen-Bradley could program its assembly line to vary the specifications; as a result, contactors and electrical relays can be tailored without slowing down the line...