George Sowden
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George James Sowden (born 1942) is a British designer and product developer based in Milan.
Life and career
George Sowden was born in Leeds, England, in 1942. He studied architecture at Gloucestershire College of Art in the 1960s. In 1970, he moved to Milan, where he started working with Ettore Sottsass and Olivetti.[1] In parallel to the industrial design work on early Olivetti computers, he was involved during the 1970s in experimental "radical" design projects which enabled him to become, in 1981, one of the co-founders of the Memphis Group, the design movement that had a significant impact on design in the eighties.[2][3]
In the same year, 1981, he founded his design studio, SowdenDesign, collaborating with companies such as Olivetti, Alessi, Bodum, Guzzini, Lorenz, Rancilio, Steelcase, Swatch, Segis, Memphis, IPM, Moulinex, Telecom Italia, Tefal and Pyrex.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In 1991, he received the Compasso d'Oro Award for design excellence for Olivetti, Fax OFX420.[4][5][6]
His works are held by museums such as the Metropolitan Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Cooper Hewitt in New York, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.[7][8][9][10]
Notable works
In 2010, Sowden developed the SoftBrew coffee brewing device, which is distributed and sold throughout the world,[11] notably in collaboration with the Danish design company HAY.[12]
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References
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- Barbara Radice, Memphis: research, experiences, results, failures, and successes of new design (Rizzoli, New York, 1984) Template:ISBN
- Silvia Katz, Classic plastics: from bakelite to high-tech : with a collector's guide. (Thames and Hudson, London, 1984) Template:ISBN
- Andrea Branzi, The hot house: Italian new wave design (Thames and Hudson, London, 1984) Template:ISBN
- Penny Sparke, Design in Italy: 1870 to the present (Abbeville Press, New York, 1988) Template:ISBN
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- British Design & Art Direction in collaboration with RotoVision, The product book (Crans-près-Céligny, Switzerland, 1999) Template:ISBN
- Fiell, C., Fiell, P., Haag, C., & Safavi, P., Designing the 21st century. (Taschen, Koln, 2001) Template:ISBN
- Peter Zec, Who's who in design. Vol. 2. (AVedition, Stuttgart, 2003) Template:ISBN
- Terence Conran, Max Fraser, Designers on design (Conran Octopus, London, 2004) Template:ISBN
- Fiell, Charlotte, and Peter Fiell., 1000 Lights. Vol. 2 (Taschen, Koln, 2005) Template:ISBN