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Rodchenko: the complete work

Back in the USSR

Published 3 March 2017

As a centenary show at the Royal Academy of Art revives British interest in the design output of Russia after 1917, this review of SO Khan-Magomedov, Rodchenko: the complete work (Thames and Hudson, 1986) looks at one of the founding fathers of Soviet design

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Fragile days of revolution

Published 20 January 2017

As a centenary show at the Royal Academy of Art revives British interest in the design output of Russia after 1917, this review of Nina Lobanov‑Rostovsky, Revolutionary ceramics: Soviet porcelain 1917‑1927 (Studio Vista, 1990) highlights the contribution made by potters

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The Conran Directory of Design

The American Design Adventure

The American Design Adventure

Published 10 December 2001

Mark Twain once said that the only thing Americans really had in common with one another was a fondness for iced water.

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Chinese Propaganda

The graphics of China

Published 12 November 1990

Chinese graphic design in the twentieth century, by Scott Minick and Jiao Ping, Thames & Hudson, 1990

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The culture of time and space

The culture of time and space

Published 10 June 1985

Review of Stephen Kern, The culture of time and space 1880-1918, and David Landes Revolution in time: clocks and the making of the modern world

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Frederick Taylor

Tayloring People for Production

Published 28 August 1984

‘The analysis of a piece of work into its elements almost always reveals the fact that many of the conditions surrounding and accompanying work are defective. Knowledge so obtained leads frequently to constructive work of a higher order, to the standardization of tools and conditions, to the invention of superior methods and machines.’

Frederick Taylor, The present state-of-the-art of industrial management, 1912

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