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Dyson Vacuum cleaners are the most technologically advanced products in their category. Most vacumm cleaner's rely on bags, which get filled with dust particles and lose suction after just a few rooms. James Dyson created an entirely new system where dust particles are seperated from the air at extroidinarily high speeds. His Vacuum's never lose suction and require no bags.

This lens is intended to introduce you to these products and give information about the brilliant designer who invented them.

Dyson - Long Form Interview: James Dyson shares his history as an inventor, his product design philosophy, His rise as an industrialist and philanthropist, and politics.
Article on Dyson: General introduction to dyson's history, company structure, and products. Witty title.
Dyson - Anti-Aesthetic: James Dyson resigned as chairman of the Chairman of the London Design Museum in protest over the direction the curator was taking the museums. Dyson believes that the museum should focus more on the engineering side of design rather than "frivalous" aesthetic pursuits. While much of the argument boils down to what you consider "design", the article is very helpful in understanding the beliefs that shape Dyson's designs.

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James Dyson - THE RICHARD DIMBLEBY LECTURE 2004: James Dyson gives a lecture criticizing the British (and to an extent European/American Governments) for not doing enough to support innovation and industry in first world nations.

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James Dyson's Favorite Car: JD writes a short article praising the Mini Cooper as a 20th century design masterpiece, Dyson appreciates the aesthetics, but also the way the engineering of the design shaped the appearence (including a good explanation for why the speedometer is in the center of the dash).

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Dyson On Advertising

"The agency business just isn't working for me. I don't want to talk to account planners, and account managers and these other assorted suits. I need to talk to the 'creatives' directly, and explain to them what I am trying to achieve. But they won't come to meetings because they are 'creative.'

"And the fact is that they are not creative at all. They are doing the very worst thing you can do, which is to sit staring at a drawing board trying to come up with an idea out of nowhere. You need dialogue to create. Of all the creative jobs I have encountered it is advertising people who make the most song and dance about creativity. And, you know, they are not creative at all. When I think of the real creation that my designers are involved in, and compare it with these 'creatives' who are earning so much more to just sit around the Groucho Club and be generally useless, it makes me vomit. I can't go on supporting an industry like that, I'm afraid."