The stage of the Royal Exchange becomes a dark and sodden arena in Jonathan Fensom's first-rate design.
Other graphic elements include contracts and telegrams, LP labels, photographs of Woody and his friends, and reproductions of album covers, all tied together with first-rate design.
This guide, in its third edition, is packed with surprisingly terrific home furnishings and other products that stand out not only because they are less damaging to the planet than conventional goods, but because of their first-rate designs.
The Athenaeum praised Evans's color printing and Kate's first-rate designs; the book was "sure to be accepted by all, big and little, artistic and 'aesthetic,' lay and simple". Such broad appeal inspired a following.
The costumes, as always with this company, are first-rate (designed by Kate Setzer Kamphausen) and there are some very good voices here belting out a handful of songs which include, in a perfect non-sequitur, "Memory" from "Cats".
Monday night, "Olbermann" had its début, and it started with a first-rate rant designed to please anyone with fond memories of nineties-era "Sports Center.
The trend was started by the citizens of the old industrial city of Bilbao, who were clever enough in the 1990s to persuade a first-rate American architect, Frank Gehry, to design them their own Guggenheim Museum (a spectacular titanium-clad clipper that now stands on the site of an old shipyard), and to get the Basque government to pay for it.
Irina Brown's atmospheric production, with a thunderous sound design by Duncan Chave, boasts a first-rate performance by one of Britain's most under-sung actresses, Paola Dionisotti.
He has assembled around him a first-rate team that shares his values and ideas about contemporary design.
It would take a lot more than arresting design, however, to turn "Whipped Cream" into a first-rate ballet.
