Amazing Designs

There are many examples of good design all around us and we take most of it for granted

There are many examples of good design all around us and we take most of it for granted.

I admire the design of buildings and products, past and modern.

A poll was recently held in the UK for the public's favorite amazing designs from the 20th century.

There was a wide range of designs that got into the top twenty.

There was the London Underground Map, the original cover design for Penguin Paperbacks, the Mini car and the Mini skirt! The album cover for the Beatles' Sgt.

Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band was also in.

The best designs are the ones which are aesthetically pleasing whilst performing a function.

The London Underground Map is a prime example of that.

Sometimes, designers try to predict what will be the amazing designs of the future.

There were exhibitions which showed what homes would look like in the 21st century.

They look very futuristic and high tech, with video phones and robots doing all the housework! It's interesting to compare what was predicted and where we actually are.

Science fiction TV shows and movies try to predict the future designs.

Star Trek had the crew talking to each other in what was the forerunner of the cell phone.

Computers talked to them and medical scanners diagnosed patients.

All this has come to pass.

We haven't invented androids yet.

Some amazing designs will have to wait until the 25th century.

It's been said that the Soviet Union Secret Service people used to watch James Bond movies and copy some of the gadgets! The most amazing designs in the films were Bond's cars.

Q could have got a top job in industrial design for sure.

My favorite designer of the 20th century was Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

He designed everything from entire buildings to small pieces of jewelry.

All his amazing designs carry his trademark style.

You can spot a Mackintosh design in an instant.

I have been to Glasgow in Scotland where a lot of his buildings are.

You can go round the city and see examples of his chairs, cutlery, vases and so on.

I love the Art Deco design of the 1930s, both the buildings and the interiors.

It was the golden age of the movie palace and some Art Deco cinemas have amazing designs.

Art Deco is very collectible now.

I'm not so keen on the Minimalist movement in architecture and interiors.

It's a bit too sparse for me.

On the other hand, the British Victorian look is too cluttered.

I love American diners from the 1950s, with their huge Wurlitzer juke boxes and red, plastic seating.

These weren't considered amazing designs at the time.

You never know how things will be considered in fifty years from now.



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