Jan Kaplicky

Operated his carousel of slides when he came to give a lecture to us at the Welsh School of Architecture.\nThis was in the same format of the book - he would show two\noppositional images, and jab you (verbally) in the ribs with an\naphorism linking the two.

One that always stuck with me was him showing a moody, uplit black-and-white press portrait of Richard Meier\nin the cliché black-turtleneck and severe glasses in front of venetian\nblinds - eyes directed up and away in search of the future - very\nfountainhead.

Kaplicky rumbled: \"This is not design\"

He pointed at me to click the slide carousel forward. An image of a carpark full of Boeing employees, from design engineers to HR to office cleaners in 777 project t-shirts waving at the camera.

Kaplicky, now beaming, crookedly: \"This. This is design.\"

Over warm white wine after the talk, he leant over and said to me \"When you see a bumpy road, take it\".