We asked Michael to join us and, building on our work on Hank Cinq, he again eschewed naturalism with formalised designs that drew attention to themselves in a way appropriate to a comedy that satirises the artistic pretensions of a parvenu landowner, played by the formidable Ron Moody.
One of the main findings of the research project was that in 25 organisations studied there was only limited use of formalised website design techniques (mainly hierarchy charts and storyboards).
The qualities of such interviews are not only relevant for pure qualitative study purposes but could be integrated into more formalised research designs to promote the personal factor which can be sensitive to patients' needs.
Hence, it is important to start a discussion about what kinds of formalised systems we should design.
In this research, object-based computer-processable layout design rules are comprehensively formalised based on trades' know-how.
At first, these seem to have been bestowed on individuals by the monarch or feudal lord as a sign of special recognition; but in the fifteenth century the use of robes became formalised with peers all wearing robes of the same design, though varied according to the rank of the wearer.
Clearly there is a potential for product promotion, but the formalised structure and narrow scope of the questions are designed to minimise this.
"At some point, the models that work become formalised, and as they become formalised, they become businesses," says Tad Toulis, design consultant and former creative director at the Teague agency.
It was designed as a way for intersexuality to become formalised, or normalised.
The same could be said of Jessica Hausner's chilly but oddly touching Amour Fou (Arrow, 12), an exquisitely designed, supremely unlikely marriage of romantic comedy and highly formalised costume drama – concerning the suicide pact between German writer Heinrich von Kleist and Henriette Vogel.
