Good interview with Heatherwick in this months Wired magazine.
But by far the best bit is in the Editor's letter.
"Heatherwick was adamant we should champion the behind-the-scenes experts who turn such ideas into physical reality. So he selected eight makers for us to profile - the people, from welders to panel-beaters, who define "the art of what might be possible in the world around us"."
As I said yesterday, you can not design alone anymore. The era of a lone genius working in a garret is over and design writers should stop perpetuating that myth. Good design does not get made that way.
That's why when we went to the Design of the Year awards evening earlier in the year we took a broad section of people from across government and across GDS. In this picture below there are people from MoD, The Foreign Office, Ministry of Justice and the Cabinet Office. There are designers, developers, writers, product managers, project managers, operations people, policy people and others. And there were many, many more we could have taken.
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