Word: designers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...superb knowledge of anatomy and a passion to understand how anatomical structures are used in animals," said Albert F. Bennett, chair of the biology department at Irvine. "He pioneered the awareness of the importance of a rigorous statistical design in experimental investigations of structure and function...
...course, not everyone can afford a modernist house. The attitude--simple but stylish living--can be achieved almost as well, and far more cheaply, with furniture from the period. The most desirable are the designs by the husband and wife team of Charles and Ray Eames. A worldwide tour of their work is now at London's Design Museum and coming to the Library of Congress among other U.S. venues next year. Original Eames pieces fetch high prices. Bonhams, a London auction house, is holding a sale of the couple's furniture this week. The reserve price for a prototype...
...Angeles was a perfect proving ground for this slicker, more humanized and glamorous version of modernism than the Bauhaus produced. It had the climate and the light. It had the talent, the money and the daring to support a new design movement. And of course there was all that postwar production capacity. Eames' molded plywood chairs, in fact, used a technology he developed for making lightweight splints for the Navy...
...here may lie the most important reason why young style seekers are returning to the '50s to find good design. They don't know where to look for it among their peers. There are no Case Study house programs anymore. Companies like Herman Miller and Knoll no longer seek out promising young designers to show them how modern technologies can lead to a whole new era of design. The Case Study house program was a remarkable experiment, and it produced unprecedented, timeless houses. It did not, as its creators had hoped, bring about the use of prefabricated industrial materials...
Despite protests to the contrary, the Aztec "concept" computer Intel showed off last week is strikingly similar to Apple's iMac: it's small and colorful, the trippy case is sealed shut and there's no floppy. Intel hopes the stylish design will lure buyers put off by the drab, hulking PCs sold now. The chipmaker won't actually make the machine, but is prodding PC vendors to do so by late next year...