Design Week
Anna Norman Freelance
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New model army
14 April 2011
The popularity of computer-aided design and technologies such as rapid prototyping has marked a sharp decline in the use of maquettes and small-scale, handmade models in the design process. But, says Anna Norman, even in this digital age model-making still has its place
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Profile: Joey Ruiter
31 March 2011
The US industrial designer has had a life-long fascination with taking things apart and putting them back together. Anna Norman talks to him about his impulse to deconstruct and recreate anything from tools and bicycles to boats
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Shifting gears
Thu, 3 Feb 2011
Best known for his Strida bike, British industrial designer Mark Sanders’ more recent If folding bike is due for UK release in April. With full-size wheels and Sanders’ patented ‘integrated folding’ system, the bikes can be wheeled along like a suitcase when folded.Video:
