Naoto Fukasawa is one of the best-known Japanese product designers working today, achieving widespread recognition with his groundbreaking wall-mounted CD player, designed for MUJI in 1999. Fukasawa has won acclaim for his innovative designs of familiar objects, which are based on his close observations of how we use things in our everyday lives. An exquisite synthesis of east and west has produced a wide range of products in seeming perfect balance. His objects, however, merely look simple.
Chris Carter began his career in the late 1960s working as a sound engineer for Thames, Granada and LWT on numerous TV shows and documentaries, and received commissions for BBC shows, Colour Me Pop and The Old Grey Whistle Test. In the mid 1970s, Chris began an experimental music/sound collaboration with Cosey Fanni Tutti, Genesis P-Orridge (also working together as performance art group COUM Transmissions) and Peter Christopherson. The result was the creation of the now legendary Throbbing Gristle, Industrial Records and the birth of the 'Industrial Music' genre.
The Orbison illusion is an optical illusion that was first described by the psychologist William Orbison in 1939. The bounding rectangle and inner squares both appear distorted in the presence of the radiating lines. The background gives us the impression there is some sort of perspective. As a result, our brain sees the shapes distorted.
Anthony Shakir is one of if not the most underrated names in Detroit techno. Producing tracks on his own since 1981, Shakir worked as a co-writer, producer, editor, and engineer next to Atkins, May, and Carl Craig in the late 1980s. Some of his first material appeared on the seminal "Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit" compilation. In the 1990s he co-found Puzzlebox with Keith Tucker and Frictional with Claude Young.
