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7. An alternative group of artist-designers who were interested in keeping
alive the time-honored practices of hand-working traditional materials
emerged during the 1960s.
8. The last quarter of the twentieth century saw a surge of unbridled con-
sumerism manifested in a number of diverse, often contradictory, design
currents.
9. Toward the end of the 1990s, designers, recognizing the inherent beauty
of materials developed for science, began to employ them in a wide range
of consumer products.
10. In the century's last decade, the environment became a major concern for
designers offering “red”, socially responsible solutions to design problems.
3. Discuss the following in pairs using the information from the text.
1. The years following World War II in the life of people.
2. A boom in design and production.
3. The most marked changes in the development of American design.
4. Italian designers in the after-war time.
5. Scandinavian design after World War II.
6. Changes in Japanese design after World War II.
7. The role of an alternative group of artist-designers.
8. A radically transformed “modern design”.
9. A number of diverse, contradictory design currents.
10. “Green,” solutions to design problems.
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