Influenced by Neville Brody’s design for The Face magazine, the Street Sounds Electro sleeves designed by Red Ranch eventually went on to inspire an electro cover of The Face magazine by Neville Brody. Perhaps overshadowed at the time by the music that the records carried, the sleeves were undoubtedly part of their success.
Naoto Fukasawa is one of the best-known Japanese product designers working today, achieving widespread recognition with his groundbreaking wall-mounted CD player, designed for MUJI in 1999. Fukasawa has won acclaim for his innovative designs of familiar objects, which are based on his close observations of how we use things in our everyday lives. An exquisite synthesis of east and west has produced a wide range of products in seeming perfect balance. His objects, however, merely look simple.
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.
