Sir Kenneth Grange’s influential industrial designs are chronicled in a new book

Kenneth Grange: Designing the Modern World by Lucy Johnston.

The genuine heroes of modern design are few and far between. Sir Kenneth Grange certainly qualifies. Now well into his nineties, Grange is a British industrial designer whose work and influence spans genres and generations, helping define the modern high street as well as the profession itself.

Grange at the meeting table in the Pentagram studios in Needham Road, Notting Hill, late 1980s. (Image credit: © Kenneth Grange archive. Courtesy of Kenneth Grange, Pentagram and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London)