Showing posts with label mid-century design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mid-century design. Show all posts
11 August 2010
07 September 2009
Here Come The Warm Jets
Like the Polaroid SX-70 Land camera and Concorde, the U-2 spy plane's spare, singular design has aged insanely well. Even though the first test flight was held in 1955, the glider-like fuselage looks completely contemporary: it could as easily have been drawn up yesterday by Marc Newson. Designed by Kelly Johnson and Lockheed for Cold War high-altitude reconnaissance, the U-2 was first rejected by the Air Force before catching the attention of a civilian review panel that included inventor, industrialist and 20th century American super-genius Edwin Land of Polaroid. He successfully lobbied CIA director Allen Dulles to sponsor development and construction of the plane, which 60 years later is still in chic, stylish service.
23 June 2009
Home Away From Home
Cochrane's beautiful little mid-[23rd] century cottage.
Star Trek, "Metamorphosis"
First broadcast November 1967
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