Word: fording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about 4:00 p.m., Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford told the demonstrators from a bullhorn on the steps of Widener to leave the building immediately...
...retro," and that draws a grimace from Mays, who prefers words like "progressive." But he admits that one thing he learned in his 14 years of designing cars for Volkswagen/Audi is that you never look forward without first looking over your shoulder. Not surprisingly, the first design from Ford that bears Mays' signature is the 2001 Thunderbird, which at a glance looks distinctly like the 1957 model of the same name. Others must agree, given the fleet of nostalgia-tinged new models coming from the likes of Chrysler, Jaguar and Nissan...
...These guys haven't invented anything, they've just discovered an image that's salable, and they pump the market until they can't sell any more," says Herbert Palmer, owner of a gallery on Los Angeles' Melrose Avenue that sells works by the respected contemporary abstractionists Gordon Onslow Ford and Choichi Ida at prices as high...
...bathroom fixtures, from sinks to urinals, for the German company Duravit. And designer Marc Newson, 35, has done kitchen accessories for Italy's upscale Alessi, a bicycle for Denmark's Biomega, and the bar at Andre Balazs' new Standard Hotel in Los Angeles--in addition to a car for Ford...
...cluttered marketplace, the pressure is on designers to divine what will entice consumers and to make it, from ice-cream scoops to condominiums. That process has become a business in itself for consultants like SHR Perceptual Management, whose clients, such as Ford, General Mills and Coca-Cola, want artistic help for their brands. "It's all about brand," says Mark Dziersk, president of the Industrial Designers Society of America. "It's attaching the personality to the product that's important...