Word: designer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is like giving birth to a baby," said Joseph Leccese, a truck driver and designer of the monument. Leccese, who served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970, said he started the design a year and a half ago and wanted something simple and elegant with "clean lines...
...Stirling [the architect] combines pop architecture with traditional [architecture] to transform his design into a modern kind of look," said a Graduate School of Design student who declined to be identified...
...each issue. He recruited and trained talented writers and opened the magazine to their distinctive voices, introducing the use of bylines on news stories in 1980 (until then, only criticism and commentary were signed). To improve and broaden coverage, Cave started six new sections: American Scene (1978), Video (1981), Design (1981), Computers (1982), Food (1984) and two weeks ago, Health & Fitness. He commissioned special sections on the 1984 Olympics, the 40th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, and the Children of War, and devoted virtually entire issues to the Soviet Union (1980), Japan (1983) and Immigrants...
Comments his friend Tomoko Komuro, who went into partnership with him to form the Miyake Design Studio (M.D.S.) in 1970: "He was attracted by some kind of excitement that goes beyond the limit of clothing." Miyake found the limit, then pushed past it. He used plastic, paper, rubber, insisting that "anything can be clothing." His clothes always seemed to have been sewed together in some sensual time warp entirely of his own devising. They are ancestral and futuristic all at once. They do not go out of style because they have little relation to anything as evanescent as a trend...
...tell Mr. Stirling how to design a building any more than you tell Picasso how to paint a painting," said President Derek C. Bok. But even Picasso had some bad days...