Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Chris Herman's Top 6 Design Icons

Citroen DS designed by Bertoni, 1955-1975, hydro pneumatic self-levelling suspension, first production car with electronic disc brakes.

 
Volkswagen posters by Doyle Dane Bernbach, 1959 onwards, redefined product advertising, Futura Font.

 













 
Fiskars scissors, 1967, Finland, Fiskars Orange registered as trademark in 2003, colour choice was made by ‘accident’ when machinist used remaining orange coloured plastic upon prototyping the original product.
  

Original iPod by Apple, 2001, portable media player, at least 260,000,000 units sold so far.

 














Fender Stratocaster Olympic White by Leo Fender, 1954, ash/alder body with maple neck construction, three identical single coil pickups switched 3 way, Synch Tremolo. 









 




Boyd Walsh Street House by Robin Boyd, 1959, introverted yet social design, arguably Boyd’s best example of his structural-functionalist architectural style.

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