"Have no fear of perfection – you'll never reach it."
– Salvador Dali
Primarily a painter and sculptor, Tyree Guyton has also been described as an urban environmental artist. He has waged a personal war on urban blight on Detroit's East Side, transforming first a street in his neighborhood, and then two city blocks into a living indoor/outdoor art gallery by using discarded objects including old shoes, bicycles and baby dolls to embellish abandoned houses, sidewalks and empty lots.
Berthold Lubetkin is widely regarded as the most outstanding architect of his generation to have practised in England. Lubetkin's designs are characterized by clear geometric figures, technical ingenuity, and a functional resolution that show modernism at its most poetic and powerful. Famous works include the Gorilla House and Penguin Pool at London Zoo, Highpoint One/Two Highgate, Dudley Zoo and Finsbury Health Centre.
For over 40 years, from 1955 until the late 1990s, Dieter Rams designed or oversaw the design of over 500 products at German consumer goods maker Braun. He was radical in his use of materials but always determined on designing products that were fundamentally honest, as simple to use as possible and that worked as well as possible.
Poet and computer scientist Richard P. Gabriel is a distinguished engineer at IBM Research, looking into the architecture, design, and implementation of extraordinarily large, self-sustaining systems. He is the award-winning author of four books and a poetry chapbook, and popularized the phrase "Worse is Better" in his 1990 essay "Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big".
Since the 1980s, Manchester native, A Guy Called Gerald, born Gerald Simpson, has proven to be among the most innovative modern music figures. His influence is international, and through his versatility he has spawned genres and generations of music culture. From his early experimentation with techno and acid house to his ground breaking contributions to jungle, GCG's art and craft has perpetually evolved regardless of his individual successes in each of those genres.
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