While we're discussing 'Design For Today', I couldn't resist a part two, this time focusing on the various knobs, dials, reels and readouts featured in its fifteen minute running time.
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Thursday, 14 March 2013
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Design For Today
'Design For Today' is a seminal 1965 short film directed by Hugh Hudson which presents us with an avalanche of good looking products all designed and made in the UK. Stylish, aspirational, it's a very high end vision of life but a highly desireable one: a pretty wife, a beautiful car, a high powered job in industry, aubergines for dinner, a Francis Bacon catalogue on the coffee table.
Made without narration as 'good design speaks for itself', it does, however, benefit enormously from a very cool Johnnny Scott soundtrack. An interesting aside is that the credits are read out, the only human voice on the soundtrack: I wonder if that's where Truffaut got the idea for the credits on 'Fahrenheit 451'?
Made without narration as 'good design speaks for itself', it does, however, benefit enormously from a very cool Johnnny Scott soundtrack. An interesting aside is that the credits are read out, the only human voice on the soundtrack: I wonder if that's where Truffaut got the idea for the credits on 'Fahrenheit 451'?
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