Design Review (Budapest, 1993)

Regulars Right, for the teenage gangs of Los Angeles the 9mm Beretta has become an essential - and deadly - statement of macho street-chic. Susie McKellar explains how pistols discovered design (page 24). Far right, official design in Russia may be dead but graffiti is flourishing as never before. Sergei Serov reports on Moscow's home made protest graphics (page 34) Published for the Chartered Society of Designers by Tradevine Ltd, 26 Cramer Street, London WlM 3HE. Telephone 071-486 7419. Fax 071-486 1451 Design Review is circulated to all members of the Chartered Society of Designers four times a year Publisher: Peter Murray Editorial Director: Deyan Sudjic Editor: David Redhead Art Editor: Stephen Coates Associate Art Editor: Simon Esterson Production Editor: Ian Massey Contents Issue 10 Volume 3 1993 Assistant Editor: Liz Farrelly Advertisement Director: Richard Leeks Advertising Manager: Simon Turner Marketing and Distribution: Nick Barley Publisher's Assistant: Victoria Wharton Imagesetting: Pilot Graphics Colour Reproduction: Precise Litho Printing: Pensord Press, Gwent Képző-és Iparművészeti lektorátus Iparesztétikc! Osztálya Budapest V. Báthori utca 10. Levéicrn: 1363 Pf. 66. Tel.: 1-328-179; 1-310-591 Editorial Why Renaissance was the wrong word 2 Opinion Good design does not mean good taste Nigel Whiteley 3 Letters Plain talking from Yorkshire 4 Round-up Holland's backlash; Starck's trial by toothbrush 5 Exhibitions Lovegrove's labours; Blueprint at the V&A Michael Horsham 7 Books The flawed success story of James Gardner Alan Irvine 8 Listings An international design calendar 10 Minerva Awards The product and 3D shortlist 11 My Bible My life as a wanderer Lisa Krohn 47 Features Guns are us Death as a designer object Susie McKellar 24 Inside the softjnachine How machines invaded our minds Derrick de Kerckhove 30 Graphics of the barricades Moscow's signs of conflict Sergei Serov 34 The haves and have nots Get political! Stefano Marzano 40 The Glasgow effect Ten views of "Design Renaissance" 45 Tradevine Ltd © Copyright 1993 No responsibility can be accepted for unsolicited manuscripts or photographs Bookshop/Gallery Distribution Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN. Tel 081-986 4854 Holland and Belgium Distribution Bruil & van de Staaij, Postbus 75, 7940 AB Meppel, Holland. Tel 05220 61303 Italy Distribution Von Wedel Sri, Via G Giusti 26, 20154 Milan. Tel 02 33104675 Subscriptions Design Review Subscriptions, Chartered Society of Designers, 29 Bedford Square, London WClB 3EG. Tel 071-631 1510. Fax 071-580 2338 Minerva Awards All enquiries should be directed to John Arent, 26 Cramer Street, London WlM 3HE. Tel 071-486 7419- Fax 071-486 1451 Paper Text: Five Star Velvet 110g/m2 Cover: Five Star Art Board 250g/m2 supplied by Guppy Paper

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