Oprah's Book Club resurrected sales of decades-old classics through simple cover redesigns and the imprimatur of the club's sticker.
And for some reason the rule doesn't apply to recent anniversary redesigns of Orwell (by David Pearson for Penguin) or BS Johnson (by La Boca for Picador).
Some aircraft designers now believe that just about all the efficiency gains available have been wrung from this traditional shape, and that for a further big cut in fuel consumption a new type of airliner is needed.Over the years, a number of radical redesigns have been proposed, but none has taken off.
Dear Reader,There are few things more boring than long articles by editors about how their redesigns are going to produce a sharper, more modern, publication, brightening readers' lives and furthering world peace.
An ozone-based alternative to the company's environmentally unfriendly bleach for paper and pulp, for example, required customers to undertake prohibitively expensive redesigns of their mills.The company's saviour came serendipitously in the form of a new system for manufacturing gases at small plants erected on its customers' sites.
It has not helped the government's cause that one of three proposed redesigns submitted by the American company handling the revamp features a mountain range in Montana, and not the Canadian Rockies.The Progressive Conservatives, who have been in power since 1971, may quietly backtrack from the mess they've created.
And while bailing out the Russians will be expensive, deciding to do without them would require even costlier redesigns and delays.Either way, designing, building and operating the international space station is likely to cost more than the current best guess of $100 billion in all.
At Britain's Department for Trade and Industry, occupancy levels rarely reached 60%; it and several other British public-sector organisations have done similar redesigns, cutting from one desk per person to around eight desks per ten.What workers need from their offices has long been clear.
If demand for improved security grew fast enough, then redesigns for compartmentalisation could be speeded up too.For those who know where to look there are ways to hide onlineSome in the industry believe governments need to intervene to protect privacy.
Radical redesigns can have lots of teething troubles that spoil a customer's bottom line.
One way to alleviate this would be to have several small, simple processors on a chip instead of one big, intricate one, but in the end more basic redesigns may be needed.Making chips.
