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The 'Designing for our future selves' seminar mounted by the Ergomonics Society and the RCA on May 6 1992 is reviewed. The seminar focused on the design of products for use by the designers when they become 60. Designing for the old fits into three categories of those people with common age-specific disabilities, infirm old people and active old people. There will be 21 million over-65s in the US by 1995 vs the current 13 million who purchase over one-third of all consumer products. The old can be considered one of society's most forward-thinking groups.
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Royal College of Art senior lecturer Dr Penny Sparke maintains that female design differs from masculine design in that form is not the principal criterion and the object does not stand alone. Sparke cites the Norton motorcycle as the epitome of masculine design values and the design ethos of the Body Shop as a key example of female design. The growing interest in decoration, which the BBC television series, 'Signs of the Times' showed was primarily a female concern, is said to reflect the feminisation of design.
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The Design Council of London hosted a British furniture symposium on June 25, 1992, bringing together office furniture designers, manufacturers, specifiers and users. The symposium was aimed at addressing the problems connected with the industry and to consider possible remedies. Manufacturers are failing to keep pace with fast changing business environments and are finding that overseas companies are ahead of them in the contract race.
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