Designing the Decades

Designing the Decades - Designing the 60s

Series celebrating 40 years of great British designs takes a look at the 1960s, when the Mini, stacking chairs and the Post Office Tower were created.

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Designing the Decades - Designing the 70s

The series on modern design looks at the 1970s, including the fashion for rural idyll, Biba, Clive Sinclair's pocket calculator and the DIY ethos of punk.

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Designing the Decades - Designing the 80s

Series on modern design. A look at the 1980s, the decade of the designer-suited yuppie, the filofax, the Sinclair C5 and Richard Rogers's Lloyd's building.

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Designing the Decades - Designing the 90s

Series on modern design. The 1990s saw the rise of IKEA, James Dyson reinvent the vacuum cleaner, a computer game become a design icon, and Ford cars turn curvy.

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