Pentagram co-founder Kenneth Grange, whose playful and prolific product designs helped to define the face of modern Britain, has died aged 95.
Grange, who designed thousands of products that have entered the country's industrial design canon over his 70-year career, passed away less than a week after his 95th birthday.
Among his seminal designs are Royal Mail postboxes, London black cabs and many UK "firsts", including the first parking metres in 1958, Kenwood's debut food mixer in 1960 and British Rail's Inter-City 125 train in 1977, which still holds the record for the fastest diesel locomotive.
Kenneth Grange (top) has created thousands of consumer products including the Kenwood Chef mixer (above)
Grange is known for co-founding Pentagram, which went on to become the world's largest independent design consultancy, bringing expertise in industrial design to the table while his co-founders worked largely on graphics. He was known for forming fruitful, decades-long partnerships with some of the world's biggest consumer brands including Kenwood and Kodak, for which he designed the Brownie 44A, the first camera to use a plastic lens.
For more than a decade up until his death, he was the design director of British lighting brand Anglepoise, where he "re-defined the archetypal task light" with designs including his Type 3 desk lamp from 2003.
Grange's extensive archive, which earned him a knighthood for his services to design in 2012, will go on display to t...