Photos of a Porsche Factory from around 1972.
They don’t make them like they used to, car factories that is
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 10 December, 2009 to the photography subset
Not a shoe-house in sight in the town designed to make shoes
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 16 November, 2009 to the design and art subset
Zlín – dubbed the “model town of Modernism” – located in the Czech Republic, is a town that was purpose designed to maximise its production of shoes… now that’s what I call town planning.
The town is divided into zones assigned to the areas of working, living, spare time and traffic – a separation of functions [...]
Meeting the makers
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 16 June, 2008 to the comment subset
New York designer Scott Ballum is embarking on an ambitious year long project to meet, face-to-face, the people who produce the goods he buys, and also learn more about the production processes involved in their manufacture.
There’s probably not too many of us who give much thought to the mechanics that results in a can of [...]
