For the coming decades skaters would no longer represent themselves as clean cut athletes but as outlaws styling on high tech designs and engaging in pursuits unimaginable to the rest of the general public.
Skipping the weak human elements of any high-tech design helps simplify things immensely.
"The house could be a fascinating combination of high-tech design and low-tech assembly," Mr. Bergdoll said.
In the early 80's, Greg Turpan was an owner of Turpan Sanders, one of the first high-tech design stores in Manhattan.
Its high-tech design has no rivets or seams to trap food, and distinctive indentations in the handle ensure a good grip.
Interactivity led high-tech design in the 21st century, as seen, for example, in Electricfoxy's social-networking garment, "Ping," designed by Jennifer Darmour (2010).
On February 19th, he held a glitzy evening event to showcase high-tech design and celebrate "those who are inventing the new industrial France".
This exposed-steel structure was a tour de force of high-tech design, with a dramatic skeletal exterior clad with tube-encased elevators and brightly coloured ductwork.
Though "Metropolis" emphasizes the contrast between the dated, naïve figures in the foreground and the high-tech design of the background, it isn't unusual to find a similar, if unarticulated, dissonance in other anime.
To capture that customer, he has introduced a $1.2 billion, three-year program to remake Le Meridien into what he called "a marketing-driven company that uses high-quality, art-and-high-tech design and the best-trained staff".
