Good Buy Girl

Museum collection with attitude, how we live today 100 years hence.

Objects give clues as to how we live, design is tool for synthesis and analysis of the world.

Terence asked me to choose items which described how I lived not necessarily how I aspired to live—it’s very personal and should be. It’s not about Italian furniture and white carpets. It’s about what I choose to buy in the supermarket or the bar. How I spend my spare time and how I travel.

Ducati 916—technology, packaging—marriage of functional aesthetics and technological performance. Design is control, the creative process of ordering chaos using a sensorial vocabulary which uses all of the senses, not only the visual. Talk about bike: sound, smell, sensation. smallness, compactness and personality.

Tactel knickers—something comfy to ride the bike in. Du Pont + M&S (Traacy Hodgeson) technological collaboration to produce a fabric before it became Busby Berkely style big knickers.

Playtex Wonderbra—changing female form according to an ephemeral ‘style’. Technological achievement which reminded me of Eiffel who designed ladies suspenders, 3 million ‘Wonderbras’ are sold worldwide every year including 30,000 in the UK every week. The bra has 46 separate parts and 26 different processes in it’s construction.

Design articulates culture through language, symbols, rituals, myths and values.

Theatre, props and backdrops against which we play out the drama of everyday life.

Type as a ‘container for language’’ which changes it’s shape and value like water changes shape and value according to whether it’s poured into a crystal glass or a plastic container. It’s not what you say but how you say it.