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Old 17th Aug 2014, 8:06 pm   #1
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Default Industrial design - East German style:

I'm sure you're all aware of Tom Karen - who in the late-1950s and through the 1960s was one of the UK's leading industrial designers [he was variously responsible for the Raleigh Chopper bike, the Reliant Scimitar GTE and the Bush TR130 radio].

In East Germany, he had a counterpart - Clauss Dietel - who styled a range of 'intriguing' radios and was also designer behind the "Wartburg 353" car which was used extensively by the 'Stazi" and was the East German 'Mittelklasse' transport - think of it like today's Audi A3.

See here for some interesting videos/pics of 1960s/1970s East German radio designs:

http://youtu.be/BUe2nfEyTR8

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clauss_Dietel
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