So here are the new additions to the Design Museum collection - good? bad? daft? What do you think? (Its about time the Walkman was included) Road signs - Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert, UK, 1960 Arcade Machine - Space Invaders, Tomohiro Nishikado, Taito, Japan, c.1978 Rifle - Kalashnikov AK-47, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Unknown Manufacturer, Soviet Union, 1945-1946 LookSoFlat prototype lamp - Stefan Geisbauer, Ingo Maurer, Germany, 2010 3D Mouse Novint Falcon - Novint Technologies, U.S., 2006 Portable Radio - Regency TR-1, Texas Instrument, U.S., 1954 Type Writer - Valentine, Ettore Sottsass, Olivetti, Italy, 1969 The Face Magazine - 1980-2004 Ipogeo Lamp - Joe Wentworth, Artemide, Italy, 2009 Children's Chair - Tripp Trapp Peter Opsvik, Stokke, Norway, 1972 Kindle Electronic Book Reader - Kindle 3, Amazon, U.S., 2007 Sony Portable Cassette Player - TPS L2 Walkman, Nobutoshi Kihara Sony, Japan, 1979 Portable CD Player D50 MK׀׀ - Discman, Sony, Japan, 1984 Mini Disc Recorder MZ1 - Sony, Japan, 1992
Went to the Design Museum a couple of years ago for the first time and expected it to be absolutely brilliant but thought it was a really small and a bit rubbish actually. That said, most things in the list look like worthy additions (although lamps & chairs are a bit of a yawn as far as I'm concerned).
