2017.01.01肯尼斯-格兰杰爵士 设计师

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Sir Kenneth Grange is a designer. He's been designing elements of our everyday lives for the past six decades. Born in London in 1929, he went to Willesden art school aged fourteen and four years later he left and embarked on a remarkable career. He is still working today at 87 years old. "Why would I stop? I mean, if a bloke can play the piano, you don't stop him playing it, do you?"

His long career stretches from the early days of modernism to the digital age. One of his first big jobs was working for the Festival of Britain in 1951. He was co-founder of the design studio Pentagram, led a life with strong echoes of TV's "Mad Men" for a while, and his work has infused the texture of the UK. His designs include the first parking meter, the Intercity 125 train, the Kenwood mixer, the Morphy Richards iron, the Wilkinson triple razor, bus shelters, the black cab, the Parker 25 pen and the Anglepoise lamp. He's also the reason we no longer get wet when we fill our cars with petrol: he designed petrol station forecourts with roofs.

In 2013 he was knighted for his services to design, and in 2016 an Intercity 125 was named Sir Kenneth Grange.



肯尼斯-格兰杰爵士是一位设计师。在过去的六十年里，他一直在设计我们日常生活中的元素。他于1929年出生于伦敦，14岁进入威尔斯登艺术学校，四年后他离开并开始了非凡的职业生涯。今天他已经87岁了，仍然在工作。"我为什么要停下来？我的意思是，如果一个人能够弹钢琴，你不会阻止他弹钢琴，不是吗？"

他漫长的职业生涯从现代主义的早期延伸到数字时代。他的第一份重要工作是在1951年为英国节工作。他是设计工作室Pentagram的联合创始人，有一段时间过着与电视《广告狂人》有强烈呼应的生活，他的作品注入了英国的纹理。他的设计包括第一个停车计时器、城际125列车、建伍搅拌机、莫菲-理查兹熨斗、威尔金森三合一剃须刀、公共汽车候车亭、黑色出租车、派克25钢笔和Anglepoise灯。他也是我们在给汽车加油时不再被淋湿的原因：他设计了有屋顶的加油站前厅。

2013年，他因其对设计的贡献而被封为爵士，2016年，城际125路被命名为肯尼斯-格兰杰爵士。