Post Description

Here's what they don't teach in art school: when nations go to war, designers are on the front line, using their skills to devise better, more efficient ways to kill people. From the desperate improvisation of the Sten gun, turned out in huge numbers by British toy-makers, to the deadly elegance of the all-wood Mosquito fighter-bomber, the stories behind these products reveal how definitions of "good design" shift dramatically when national survival is at stake.