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The world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form.
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The Pratone lounge chair, designed for Gufram in 1971, resembles a patch of grass among which we can sink and lie. The polyurethane lounge chair creates an unconventional seating situation that challenges traditional design values. 📸 © Gufram / Kent Pell
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To mark the final day of #halfterm, tomorrow's #fontsunday is dedicated to children's TV shows. Send in your fondest memories from noon.
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Remember these? Today's #fontsunday is #backtoschool fonts. From library and report cards to textbooks and uniforms, send in your favourite memories from noon. 🏫
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To mark #InternationalWomensDay2020, today's #fontsunday will explore books written by women. Send in your favourites from noon.
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This is the Bialetti Moka Express – it came out in 1933 and revolutionised the way of making coffee at home. The octagonal and aluminium Art Deco design has remained the same since its introduction. ☕. Do you own a Bialetti?
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#DesignOfTheWeek | A look at 1980's Hispanic @Barbie ❤️..In 1980, Barbie launched the first Hispanic doll and also the first Black and Asian dolls - an important step towards representation...See this doll IRL as part of #BarbieTheExhibition, on until February 2025. Tap the
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Today's theme is a #fontsunday classic! | The topic is fonts on #bookspines. Send in your favourites from noon.
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Today means a lie-in followed by a good breakfast. | The theme for #fontsunday is cereal boxes. Send in your favourites from noon. Who's your preferred breakfast host, Barbie or Cabbage Patch Kids?
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Today's #FontSunday will be all about scribbles. Send in your favourites from noon | Will you be taking part? ✏️
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In honour of the postman still going strong and delivering our post during the outbreak, today's #fontsunday is dedicated to them. From packages, uniforms, letterboxes, stamps to letters - send in your favourite examples from noon.
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Happy birthday to British typographer & graphic designer Margaret Calvert 🎈🎂. Calvert’s work in transforming the UK’s road signage system, to the wayfinding at railway stations & airports, has been central in shaping much of our national visual identity.
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Hi, @JAStokesNJ here, exploring the solar system with you this #FontSunday until noon, with an eye on Design Museum’s #MovingtoMars exhibition – take off in 10, 9, 8 …. 1964, cover artist lost in space and time
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One of the most successful electric typewriters, the IBM Selectric, was released #onthisday in 1961 🔠. This marked a major advancement in typewriter technology, as IBM introduced a spherical type element with 88 characters, eliminating the need for a carriage.
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Today we bring back a popular #fontsunday classic, #matchbox fonts. Send in your favourites from noon.
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The Design Museum mourns the loss of its founder, design visionary, Sir Terence Conran. The designer, philanthropist and businessman sadly passed away today, at 88 years old. He had a big impact on British life and revolutionised everyday living.
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Thanks to @kikocasa844 for suggesting this week's theme for #FontSunday 👍 | The theme is open / separated type. Send in your examples from noon today. ---.Remember, we are much safer apart 🚶♂️✋ 🤚🚶♀️
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Graphic designer Milton Glaser’s poster for pasta enthusiasts 🍝. Created for Alan Heller in 2006, this poster was created to promote his pasta-shaped pillows. Glaser hinted at the non-edible nature by featuring a large width of 60cm underneath his illustration. © Milton Glaser
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Whether you love them or hate them, today's #fontsunday is dedicated to the exclamation mark ❕ ➡️ Send in your favourite examples from noon. Image | René Gruau, ca 1950, Point D'exclamation
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We are picking our favourite #FontSunday themes as nominated by you. It's #chewinggum fonts from noon today - as suggested by @MurrMarie. From classics to childhood favourites, send in your examples from around the 🌍.
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Today is the #WorldCup final. 🎉 🎉 To mark the day, #fontsunday is dedicated to stadium fonts. Any country, any sport - send in your favourite examples of type found on scarves, scoreboards to hot-dog stands from noon.
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🎥 TICKETS ON SALE 🎥. Tickets are now on sale for our upcoming major exhibition 'The World of Tim Burton'. Tim Burton is the creative force behind some of the most celebrated films of the last four decades, and this exhibition will invite visitors into his world through an
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We were excited to have the @Earlychildhood #ShapingUs National Symposium take place at the Design Museum today 👏. Hosted by the Princess of Wales (@KensingtonRoyal), the event brought together cross-disciplinary leaders, child and adult specialists and global thinkers for the
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Happy birthday to designer Dieter Rams 🎈. Former head of design at Braun, his ‘less but better’ approach inspired a generation of products. 📸.1. TP1 Portable Radio (1959).2. HT 1 Toaster (1961).3. ET 66 Calculator (1977).4. Braun Quartz alarm clock (1987)
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Imagine something so small that it is a million times smaller than the length of an ant. | Uncover the future possibilities of one of the world’s strongest lightweight materials with #designerinresidence, Marta Giralt > .#InternationalWomensMonth
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Today's obsession🌵. Get mesmerised by this 3D cactus animation now showing in our #ASMR_IRL exhibition: 📷 'Cactus cuddle' by @Pettersson0scar
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When you've got an unhealthy obsession with chairs (see our touring exhibition for evidence) . #dollypartonchallenge
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Yesterday was #InternationalTeaDay 🍵| The Design Museum team enjoy a good brew so we are still celebrating. To mark #fontsunday, send in your favourite examples of fonts on tea tins from noon.
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To mark the opening of #StanleyKubrick: The Exhibition, today's #fontsunday is dedicated to typewriter fonts. From Colón Mono, Courier M to Olivetti and Letter Gothic, there are so many examples of this type! Send in your favourites from noon. #DiscoverKubrick
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Celebrating legendary Italian industrial designer Joe Colombo, who was born #onthisday in 1930 🎈. Here are a few of our favourites of his designs. 1. KD27 Lamp.2. Elda Armchair .3. Boby Trolley.4. Multichair . Which is your favourite?
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The museum is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Zaha Hadid, one of the greatest architects of our time
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Our #FontSunday theme is billboards, inspired by the #CoritaKent exhibition @IllustrationHQ. A pop art pioneer, typographic trailblazer and nun, Corita appropriated Pepsi-Cola's 'come alive' slogan as a joyous affirmation, bringing the sublime to bear on the everyday.
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#LunchandLearn | Discover six witty up-cycled creations from designer, Nicole Mclaughlin over the next two days. This slider is "a utilitarian classroom essential that helps you stay sharp on the go" ✏️ See more from Nicole in #BeazleyDesignsoftheYear >
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'We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.' - R. Buckminster Fuller was born #onthisday in 1895
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Happy #InternationalCoffeeDay ☕️. This is the Bialetti Moka Express – it came out in 1933 and revolutionised the way of making coffee at home. The octagonal and aluminium Art Deco design has remained the same since its introduction. Do you own a Bialetti?
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#Onthisday | Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect and designer of Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, was born today in 1867
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As the new @Beetlejuice movie hits cinemas, let's take a look back at an early concept sketch by Tim Burton for the original 1988 film 💚. See this work and more in our upcoming major exhibition #TheWorldOfTimBurton, opening at the Design Museum on 25 October. Tap the link for
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Happy birthday to British graphic designer Margaret Calvert, who was born #onthisday in 1936 🚸. Whether it is the design of the UK’s road signing system or wayfinding at railway stations and airports, Calvert’s work has shaped much of our national visual identity.
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'Functionalism is not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.’. Founder of the 1980s design collective Memphis, Ettore Sottsass was pivotal in the 20th century Italian design scene. Read our #EttoreSottsass profile: 📸 Enorme telephone, 1986
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Unveiling our ✨ brand-new triwall ✨. Fables for our Time is a new public commission on the museum’s second floor, featuring three panels, each of which tells a particular story about an ecosystem that is vital to a thriving planet: bees, coral and mushrooms 🐝🪸🍄. The three
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Happy birthday to British typographer & graphic designer Margaret Calvert🎈🎂..You can see her legacy everywhere - she worked on the design of wayfinding at train stations & airports, and is the designer behind the road signs here in the UK
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Many of you voted and now here are the results. 🥁🗳️ | The People's Choice Award for #BeazleyDesignsoftheYear goes to. Brick Arches, an ankle-high roadblock assembled in Hong Kong by protestors. 👏 Was this your choice? >
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British architect Norman Foster unveils Skycycle, a proposed network of elevated cycle lanes above London's railways http://t.co/8c66nbtEzi.
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From lemon pie to crumble we’re getting nostalgic with some classic pudding packaging from the @sainsburys archive 🥧. Do you recognise any of these?. 📸 © The Sainsbury Archive (@sainsburyarch)
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It's time again for #FontSunday. Tomorrow's theme is Fonts for Change. At 12pm with guest host @essen_intl
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Today is #cheeseloversday - it's a gouda-day. | For today's #fontsunday, send in your favourite examples of typography found on cheese labels from noon.
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Today's #fontsunday is hosted by @david_reinfurt who developed the Speech-to-Text font for Sir David Adjaye's and Adam Pendleton's proposed Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King Memorial in Boston. The theme will be ELECTRONIC DISPLAY FONTS. Share your examples from noon.
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#HopetoNope | For decades, North and South Korea have attempted to influence each other by smuggling information in balloons across borders - carrying USB sticks loaded with banned media such as US films to propaganda leaflets dropped over mountains during the Winter Olympics.
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‘Anything I can do, Ray can do better.’ – Charles Eames. Known for her boundless creativity that still inspires today, read our profile on influential American artist and designer #RayEames: 📸 Eames Office
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Edible art: Enzo Mari's '16 Animals' as biscuits 🍪. Baker Lindsey Gazel has worked her culinary magic, turning Mari's ‘16 Animals’ game into biscuits. Mari's design is composed of the silhouettes of sixteen animals, cut in one continuous line. 📸 lindseygazel on Instagram
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'Functionalism is not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.’. Founder of the 1980s design collective Memphis, Ettore Sottsass was pivotal in the 20th century Italian design scene. Read our #EttoreSottsass profile: 📸 Enorme telephone, 1986
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We’re deeply saddened to hear the news of Issey Miyake’s passing – his work always balanced the practical and the beautiful and his constant experimentation with both kept him at the peak of fashion and design🤍
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Celebrating Danish furniture designer Hans Wegner, who was born #onthisday in 1914 🪑. The Wishbone (CH24) is one of his most famous pieces. Designed in 1950, it features a combined back and armrest made from oak and has a Y-shaped backrest which is how it got its name.
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Remembering Terence Conran, who founded the Design Museum in Shad Thames in 1989 following an innovative start as the Boilerhouse in the basement of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Sir Terence Conran was a visionary mentor, leader and philanthropist.
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#DesignOfTheWeek | The Pratone lounge chair, designed for Gufram in 1971. Resembling a patch of grass among which we can sink and lie, the polyurethane lounge chair creates an unconventional seating situation that challenges traditional design values. 📸 © Gufram / Kent Pell
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#ComicSans was designed by Vincent Connare and released in 1994 by Microsoft. Inspired by comic books, and intended for use in informal documents and children's materials - it has gone on to divide opinion. #FontSunday from noon will be dedicated to this type we love to hate. 👀
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What is ‘good’ design?. In the late 70s designer Dieter Rams, whose ‘less but better’ approach inspired a generation of products, wrote his Ten Principles of Good Design. These principles have become iconic & have inspired designers across the world. Which one do you stand by?
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William Morris was born #onthisday in 1834. He founded Kelmscott Press in 1891 & designed many of his own typefaces
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The Beocom 2000 telephone, was designed by Lone and Gideon Lindinger-Lowy for Bang & Olufsen in 1986. A corded analogue telephone that came with a sliding cover that opened to reveal addresses and contact details, this sleek design was a popular modern home phone.
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#OnThisDay in 1902 modernist architect & designer Marcel Breuer was born. A simple design with subtle curves & wicker caning in place of thick upholstery, Breuer’s Cesca Chair (c.1928) is widely regarded as one of the most forward-thinking designs of the 20th century.
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Today's #FontSunday is underground tube fonts, as voted by you on Twitter. Send in your favourites from noon.
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Tomorrow's #fontsunday is dedicated to #seventies typography. | Send in your favourites from noon. Image | "2" and "5" by Otto Rieger, 1978.
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#WednesdayWisdom | 'The best way to predict the future is to design it' - R.Buckminster Fuller #DesignandDesigners
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Thank you for all the #Olympics marketing campaigns you have shared so far this #fontsunday. Keep them coming!
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"We originally depicted him crying, but we kind of felt that expression was a bit too sympathetic" | The Design Museum caught up with Matthew Bonner, one of the designers behind the #TrumpBabyBlimp. See the full interview on Instagram TV: .@TrumpBabyUK
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#DesignsandDesigners | 'The best way to predict the future is to design it' - R.Buckminster Fuller.
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British designer, Thomas Heatherwick was born #otd in 1970. Did you know his bell-jar glasshouse for Bombay Sapphire Distillery (2014) was inspired by Victorian Wardian cases? Its coppery claws appear to burst through the old mill hall windows before plunging into the river.
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Pop artist Andy Warhol was born #onthisday in 1928 – did you know he painted @Barbie? 🎨..In 1986, the doll’s status as a pop culture avatar was confirmed when Warhol painted his muse, BillyBoy*, in the guise of Barbie...BillyBoy*, who owned tens of thousands of Barbie dolls,
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‘The details are not the details. They make the design.’ - Charles Eames was born #onthisday in 1907
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The Pirelli Tire Building in Connecticut is one of Marcel Breuer's brutalist wonders 🛞. Designed for the Armstrong Rubber Co in 1970, Breuer's concrete structure features two sections, with a void between each story. Believing that sections of a structure should be separated by
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#ComicSans was designed by Vincent Connare and released in 1994 by Microsoft. Inspired by comic books, and intended for use in informal documents and children's materials - it has gone on to divide opinion. #FontSunday from noon will be dedicated to this type we love to hate. 👀
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'The space within that building is the reality of that building' - Frank Lloyd Wright was born #onthisday in 1867
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#ClymxAlaïa | Watch Alaïa’s cutting scissors travel through decades of changing looks & scenarios, such as Tina Turner performing & Grace Jones in her Bond dress in this clever artwork from artist, Clym Evernden. See the full video
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To mark the start of the school year, tomorrow's #fontsunday is #backtoschool fonts | From text books, stationery, report cards to packed lunches - send in your favourite examples from noon. ✏️🎒. Image credit | @presentcorrect
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Today marks 25 years of public access to the World Wide Web. What are your favourite web designs? #InternautDay
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In celebration of the birthday of typographer and graphic designer Margaret Calvert the theme for this week’s #FontFriday is wayfinding. From airports to motorways around the world send in your favourite #wayfinding examples.
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Tomorrow is #CableCarDay and what better link than #AlpineDisplay fonts for today's #fontsunday. Influenced by the quirky type favoured by Wes Anderson, fonts that have a rugged, Alpine style and 1930s influences are set to be popular in 2021. Send in your examples from noon.
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Remembering Italian architect and designer Gaetano Pesce who has died at the age of 84. Born in La Spezia in 1939, Pesce was a pioneer of the Radical Design movement, unafraid to experiment with materials and colour. His multidisciplinary work has been the subject of numerous
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Thanks for all the great fonts posted so far this #FontSunday. Keep those fonts on #NY Billboards coming #NYCxDesign
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Mind the gap! The designer of the London Underground map, Harry Beck, was born #onthisday in 1902 🚇. Back in 1933, Beck designed this map in the form of a colour-coded diagram of criss-crossing lines to breakdown the network and was once deemed too radical for its simplicity
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To mark the final weekend of the #connectedbydesign display by @ahec_europe and @MadebyBenchmark at the Design Museum, today's #fontsunday is all about connected fonts. Merged, modular, interlinked. find your favourite types of typography and send them in from noon.
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A close up look at Erno Goldfinger's Trellick Tower - one of London's most iconic Modernist apartment blocks. Standing at 31 stories and 322 feet tall, it opened #onthisday in 1972 and remains one of the most distinctive buildings in west London’s skyline. 📸 dec_michal
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To celebrate the anniversary of #AmyWinehouse's birthday and #AmyBeyondTheStage exhibition launch this autumn, we've unveiled a hand painted mural of the music icon on Camden High Street today. Want to be first to step through the exhibition doors? >
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Discover how visionaries from @kraftwerk to @ChemBros , powered the #electronic music scene through design, technology and innovation. Book your tickets for this unmissable exhibition 🎹🎛️ > @smithandlyall @philharmonie #MixandRemix
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Kubrick Klock is ticking 🕑 | There is only 1 week to go until #StanleyKubrick: The Exhibition opens at the Design Museum. Book your tickets now to beat the queues for this unmissable event of the year. > Sponsored by @TASCHEN #discoverkubrick
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#DesignOfTheWeek | Celebrating the iconic cassette player that revolutionised the way we listen to music, the @sony Walkman 🎵. Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka wanted to listen to music privately on long flights and created the TPS-L2, the first low-cost portable stereo.
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Shine bright like a diamond (chair) 💎. The Diamond Chair was designed by Harry Bertoia, who was born #onthisday in 1915. An astounding study in space, form and function, it is a seat which is both sculptural and comfortable. Image credit: Courtesy of Knoll, Inc.
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The Design Museum team have their heads in the clouds today | Post your favourite airline fonts from noon for #FontSunday.
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#DesignOfTheWeek | Back in 1950, Marcel Bich introduced the iconic pen, changing the way we write forever 🖊️. Designed as an affordable product, he used a shorter version of his own last name to make the company name - BIC.
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Phyllis Pearsall, born #onthisday in 1906, designed and produced the A-Z street atlas of London #DesignandDesigners
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