Hence the Guardian YouTube competition was born, designed to be as open-access as possible, and aiming to reward the most inventive work, no matter how low its production values.
Algorithms are born designed to perform that sort of heavy lifting.
As Jeffrey Quill noted: "If Mitchell was born to design the Spitfire, Joe Smith was born to defend and develop it".
Last year, an Israeli Defense Forces agent -- who was never identified -- testified that the HLF was "born by design" as a part of a global network whose "ultimate goal is to teach students how to be suicide bombers".
Austrian born New York-basedesignguruuru and author Stefan Sagmeister, whose critically acclaimed 2009 TED Talk: "The Power of Time Off" expounded upon the importance of closing his office every seven years to take a year off to soak up inspiration, has just released a new body of work collected, coincidentally, over the past seven years.
He meant, of course, Azzedine Alaïa, the Tunisian-born design maverick.
The Victoria & Albert Museum's new exhibition, "International Arts and Crafts," explores the British-born design movement, which emphasized the value of individual craftsmanship over industrial production and influenced design around the world starting in the late 19th century.
A more inspiring story unfolded in Cincinnati, which went to extraordinary lengths to salvage 14 Art Deco-style mosaic murals of American workers that were created in the 1930's by the Munich-born design pioneer Winold Reiss.
The ad uses a voice with a British accent to point out the features of the iPad Air, poking fun of Jony Ive, Apple's British-born design chief, who frequently appears in videos describing the company's new products.
Qualifications: The wooden bench that the east London-based, Italian-born designed as part of his degree show for the Royal College of Art in 2000, and which won him the Peugeot Oxo Design Award for 2003, is all about angles.
He was born into the design elite as the only child of the avant-garde jewelry designers Emmy van Leersum and Gijs Bakker.
