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POST FUTURIST MANIFESTO

Brit Leissler (RDISS 2008) recently got busy out at Milan Design Week, seeking to create a Post Futurist Manifesto by engaging in "dialogues with some of the leading thinkers in the world of design ... centered around the new values that designers (and the design industry) should address, and the new approaches they ought to take in order to confront the paradigm-shifts that we are currently facing".

The interviews have been posted together on the Core77 industrial design blog. Go check them out.

NICK TALKS TO MIKE

As part of the RDInsights podcast series, Mike Dempsey recently chatted to RDI Nick Butler, looking back at his career as an industrial designer. 

Nick was founding partner of BIB Design Consultants in 1967, uniting industrial design, engineering and technology with broader social concerns. Some examples of his wide ranging work include: medical devices, JCB Sitemaster Diggers, Minolta cameras, Durabeam torches, Dunhill watches and Mont Blanc pens, as well as Connect 4, one of the best ever children’s games.

Take a listen, and find out how one of Hitchcock's leading ladies inspired his choice of career.