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David Watkins (designer)
David Watkins is a British artist who has designed the medals for the London 2012 Olympics. Watkins was also a special effects maker for the film '' 2001: A Space Odyssey''. Life Watkins was born in Wolverhampton in 1940 and he is a graduate of the University of Reading (1963 Fine Arts) where he met his lifelong partner Wendy Ramshaw. Ramshaw is a Royal Designer for Industry and he has produced work for the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C960/74) with Watkins in 2006 for its Crafts Lives collection held by the British Library.Watkins, David (1 of 3) National Life Stories Collection: Crafts Lives, British Library Board: 2006 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HK Kln Park David Watkins Stainless 02 Pool Pavilion Oct-2012
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842.. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898... British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II; British administration resumed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
