Harrods, the famous London department store, is hosting an exhibition and events until the 24 May about Design Icons.
Ross Lovegrove, who was in the team that designed the Sony Walkman®, talks in today's Metro free newspaper about seven of his favourite design icons. I liked his comment about mobile phones. He occasionally gets asked to design one, but says "it doesn't get any better than the iPhone. Why would I suddenly do something with buttons on it ?" The personal stereo, by the way, wasn't patented by Sony as they assumed (wrongly) it was an unpatentable idea.
Next Wednesday the paper will feature a similar article by Richard Sapper, who created the ThinkPad®.
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