Why would you design something, if it didn’t improve the human condition? From the NY Times obit for Niels Diffrient, industrial designer and ergonomics pioneer (among other things, he designed the Polaroid SX-70 Land camera and worked with Henry Dreyfuss and Eero Saarinen on furniture and devices like the Bell Systems princess telephone)
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Why Would You Design Something if It Didnt
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RIP Charles Napier
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RIP Charles Napier, who I’ll always remember as the great voice actor behind The Critic’s Southern TV magnate Duke Phillips. If you have access to the Critic DVD set, be sure to listen to the commentary tracks where Maurice LaMarche and Nick Jameson share the recording booth with a seemingly uncomfortable Napier… (the above clip also features the remarkable Doris Grau, who passed on around the time the show was still in production)
“ALL HAIL DUKE, DUKE IS LIFE.”
(h/t to SuperHappy)
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Hightower Rip
Inside, I’ve got to feel I’m the best, but if I tell you I’m the best, then I’m a fool. Bubba Smith, football and Police Academy star, quoted in his New York Times obituary.