Lamborghini commissioned a former designer for the Bertone coachbuilding studio, Franco Scaglione, to design the first car, the 350 GTV, a shapely coupe.
Jack Nicklaus is to design the first golf course.
Revolutionary in recycling-he helped design the first newspaper de-inking plant in America more than 50 years ago.
Pearl Wong was the owner and hired Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel in 1973 to design the first modern Chinese restaurant.
The school has 154 students, who major in art, music, dance, drama and costume design; the first class will graduate in June 2003.
The French architect Jean Nouvel, below, has been chosen to design the first large concert hall to be built in Paris since the Salle Pleyel opened in 1927.
It sounds obvious ("it's a video page!"), but in the old design, the first thing presented to the user was a standfirst – a paragraph of text describing the content of the video.
It was in that same spirit of entrepreneurship and brand extension that city marketers recently commissioned a new, "iconic" taxi-medallion design, the first step in a larger plan to "build equity" in the Taxi and Limousine Commission.
The machine is on loan to the museum from Dr. C. Gordon Bell, a computer scientist who helped design the first minicomputers in the 1950's and 1960's and is one of the museum's biggest supporters.
LATE MAY 1999 Maximus enters an agreement with a subcontractor, Richard J. Schwartz, a former top aide to Mr. Giuliani, who helped design the first phase of the city's welfare reform effort.
He had been teaching part time at Yale, and the president of the university, A. Whitney Griswold, asked him to design the first of a series of modern buildings for Yale's largely neo-Gothic campus.
