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The Design Museum Touring Programme This programme was set up in 2002 with the aim of bringing design exhibitions to audiences around the UK and internationally. Since then, the museum has toured more than 120 exhibitions to 100 venues in 27 countries worldwide. The Design Museum’s touring exhibitions range in size from 150 to 1,000 square metres and cover all areas of design – architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, product and more.
About the Design Museum The Design Museum is the world’s leading museum devoted to architecture and design. Its work encompasses all elements of design, including fashion, product and graphic design. Since it opened its doors in 1989, the museum has displayed everything from an AK-47 to high heels designed by Christian Louboutin. It has staged over 100 exhibitions, welcomed over five million visitors and showcased the work of some of the world’s most celebrated designers and architects including Paul Smith, Zaha Hadid, Jonathan Ive, Miuccia Prada, Frank Gehry, Eileen Gray and Dieter Rams. On 24 November 2016, the Design Museum relocated to Kensington, West London. Architect John Pawson converted the interior of a 1960s modernist building to create a new home for the Design Museum, giving it three times more space in which to show a wider range of exhibitions and significantly extend its learning programme.
Future Exhibitions 6 Mars 8 Designs of our Time 12 14 16 18 20 22 24
Current Exhibitions Home Futures David Adjaye: Making Memory Ferrari: Under the Skin Breathing Colour by Hella Jongerius NEW OLD: Designing for our Future Selves In the Making Hello, My Name is Paul Smith
27 Exhibition Catalogues 33 Terms and Conditions 34 Contacts
EUROPEAN MUSEUM OF THE YEAR 2018 In May 2018, the Design Museum was awarded the title of European Museum of the Year and commended by the panel for its effort in developing ‘an important democratic and multilayered intercultural dialogue, with a significant social impact in the community.’
The Design Museum, 2016
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future exhibitions
ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS, HEYDAR ALIYEV CENTRE, 2014
Mars CURATORS Alex Newson is Senior Curator at the Design Museum Justin McGuirk is Chief Curator at the Design Museum TOUR AVAILABILITY from Spring 2020 SPACE approx. 875 square metres
1. NASA, Curiosity, 2011–18 2. Foster + Partners, Mars Habitat design competition, RAC Laboratory, 2015
Getting humans to Mars has become one of the great projects of our time. Unlike the Moon landings of the last space race, however, this ambition is not purely symbolic. Mars holds the potential of human settlement and the promise of life after Earth. Some of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs, architects and engineers are dedicating themselves to conquering the next frontier. This exhibition explores the crucial role that design will play in this collective endeavour. From the capsules that need to keep dozens of passengers in harmony over a nine-month journey, to the habitats they will live in on Mars, and the terraforming of the landscape; every detail needs to be designed. This is falling to the traditional space agencies, such as NASA, and to private entrepreneurs, such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, and to architects such as Norman Foster. The exhibition collects the current state of design ingenuity, from shuttle environments to Martian homes, clothing and tools. But it also invites designers and artists to collaborate with the space agencies to create new designs, and to speculate about the way this future might play out.
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Designs of our Time CURATORS Justine Boussard is an independent curator Justin McGuirk is Chief Curator at the Design Museum CATALOGUE 976 pages, 840 colour illustrations (see p. 28) TOUR AVAILABILITY from late 2019 SPACE 200 – 450 square metres
1. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Scewo, 2017 2. Nike, Nike Pro Hijab, 2017 3. Danielle Pender and Shaz Madani, Riposte Magazine, 2013 4. NLÉ, Makoko Floating School, 2012 5. Google, Waymo self driving car, 2016 6. Martino Gamper, 100 Chairs in 100 days, 2007 7. Exhibition view, Beazley Designs of the Year 2016
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This is the time of the smartphone, social media and Airbnb: all of them designed within the last decade. Each of them has reshaped how we live in ways that few could have predicted. It is the time of the global refugee crisis, and a growing sense of social responsibility – to each other, and to the planet. Though the problems facing us may sometimes seem intractable, this is also a time of unprecedented innovation through design of all kinds, from buildings to software. ‘Designs of our Time’ is an optimistic and uplifting exhibition, bringing together the designs that have shaped our world in the years since Steve Jobs launched the smartphone in 2007. The exhibition is organised into seven themes, each reflecting on how design is responding to a key social, economic or environmental issue facing the world today. It features autonomous vehicles, smart devices and websites, as well as furniture, books and buildings. Each of the featured projects (ranging between 60 and 100) is the starting point for an exploration of how it was designed, made and used, engaging audiences to discover the social and cultural impact of design. ‘Designs of our Time’ conveys the wide range of approaches to design, and provide a lens through which to understand the rapid changes that the world is going through. FUTURE EXHIBITIONS | 8
current exhibitions
EXHIBITION VIEW, FERRARI: UNDER THE SKIN, 2017
Home Futures CURATORS Eszter Steierhoffer is Senior Curator at the Design Museum Justin McGuirk is Chief Curator at the Design Museum EXHIBITION DESIGN SO-IL GRAPHIC DESIGN John Morgan studio CATALOGUE 336 pages, 260 colour illustrations (see p. 26) VENUES Design Museum, London 7 November 2018 – 24 March 2019 IKEA Museum, Älmhult 25th April – 23rd August 2019 TOUR AVAILABILITY from late 2019 SPACE approx. 600 square metres
The ‘home of the future’ has long intrigued designers and popular culture alike. Bringing together avant-garde speculations with contemporary objects and new commissions, ‘Home Futures’ explores today’s home through the prism of yesterday’s imagination. The exhibition asks: are we living in the way that pioneering architects and designers once predicted, or has our idea of home proved resistant to real change? This exhibition is divided in six themes: ‘living smart’, ‘living on the move’, ‘living autonomously’, ‘living with less’, ‘living with others’ and ‘the great indoors’; and it features significant works by designers including Ettore Sottsass and Enzo Mari, as well as contemporary figures such as Dunne & Raby and Industrial Facility. Through more than 150 objects and experiences, ‘Home Futures’ showcases historical notions of the mechanised home and the compact home, displayed alongside contemporary phenomena such as connected devices and the sharing economy. ‘Home Futures’ has been created in partnership with IKEA Museum, and it will travel to Älmhult, Sweden in Spring 2019.
1. Superstudio, PoliSupersurface – The Happy Island, 1971 2. Villa Arpel – 2007 set reconstitution from the film ‘Mon Oncle’ by Jacques Tati
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David Adjaye: Making Memory CURATOR Alex Newson is Senior Curator at the Design Museum EXHIBITION DESIGN Adjaye Associates GRAPHIC DESIGN A Practice for Everyday Life (APFEL) VENUES Design Museum, London 2 February – 28 April 2019 TOUR AVAILABILITY from Summer 2019 SPACE approx. 400 square metres
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1. Adjaye Associates, Smithsonian NMAAHC, 2017 2. Adjaye Associates, MEMO, 2013 3. Adjaye Associates, National Cathedral of Ghana, 2018 4. Adjaye Associates, National Cathedral of Ghana, 2018
Over the past few decades, Sir David Adjaye has established himself as one of the leading architects of his generation. While his portfolio is diverse, there are several recurring themes in his work. One of those themes relates to monuments and memorials: complex spaces of public memory which elicit raw emotional responses and create a shared sense of identity. Through this exhibition, Adjaye presents a new typology for the monument where architecture and form are used as storytelling devices. These contemporary monuments are no longer static objects in a field – statues or neo-classical sculptures – but are dynamic and complex spaces that serve a wider purpose. ‘David Adjaye: The Monument’ will present several Adjaye Associates projects personally selected by David, from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture to the new UK Holocaust Memorial planned for London. In Adjaye’s words, these monuments serve to ‘orchestrate an experience that reminds of the fragility of constant strife for a more equitable world’. The exhibition will include models, newly commissioned video interviews and immersive site-specific displays that explore Adjaye’s varied approaches to spatial storytelling and reveal how he uses design to reflect on history, memory and record human lives.
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‘The secret world of car design is laid bare.’ Culture Whisperer ‘This show is well worth a spin.’ The Times ‘Intelligently curated and stunningly designed.’ Forbes ‘It’s not the first exhibition commemorating Ferrari’s 70-year history – but it may be the finest.’ Motor Sports Magazine
Ferrari: Under the Skin CURATORS Andrew Nahum is Principal Curator of Technology and Engineering at the Science Museum, London Gemma Curtin is Curator at the Design Museum EXHIBITION DESIGN Patricia Urquiola Studio GRAPHIC DESIGN Pentagram CATALOGUE 240 pages, 200 colour illustrations (see p. 29) VENUES Museo Ferrari, Maranello 26 May – 30 September 2017 Design Museum, London 15 November 2017 – 15 April 2018 Macau 25 January – 16 June 2019 TENTATIVE Melbourne August 2019 – January 2020 TOUR AVAILABILITY from early 2020
1. Exhibition view, F1-2000 racing car, designed by Rory Byrne; 2. Ferrari S.p.A., Yearbook, 1960; 3. Steve McQueen with his Ferrari 350 GT Berlinetta Lusso, 1963; 4. Ferrari S.p.A., F150 FM 05 drawing, 2013; 5. Exhibition view, Pininfarina Wooden Buck 365 P (1966), Aluminum body shell 250 LM (1964), Wireframe model 250 GTO (1962); 6. F40, designed in 1987 by Leonardo Fioravanti
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What makes a myth? How does a car acquire an immortal name? What makes its creator an enigma and a legend? Building a brand today is a calculated and knowing process, but Ferrari arose to international fame through a more elusive and organic process, that suited different times; it started in an Italy ravaged by the Second World War, where Enzo Ferrari and his small team decided to create the perfect racing machine. Charting the holistic development of the luxury car brand as well as the design, the exhibition explores Ferrari’s powerful personality, the manufacturing process and its rising profile amongst its famous clientele. From the very first Ferrari to Michael Schumacher’s winning Formula One car, and including the newest hybrid model, the exhibition features rare cars as well as memorabilia displayed in public for the first time. This is a unique behind-the-scenes that will allow visitors to race through 70 years of the Ferrari experience through original hand-drawn sketches, sculpturelike models and engines, alongside films and interviews telling one of the great design stories of all time.
SPACE approx. 870 square metres
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Breathing Colour by Hella Jongerius CURATOR Alex Newson is Senior Curator at the Design Museum Hella Jongerius is a Dutch designer based in Berlin and founded the Jongeriuslab studio in 1993 EXHIBITION AND GRAPHIC DESIGN Jongeriuslab VENUES Design Museum, London 28 June – 24 September 2017 Museum Bojmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 9 June – 12 August 2018 Stockholm October 2019 – January 2020 TOUR AVAILABILITY before Summer 2019 and from February 2020 SPACE approx. 300 – 500 square metres
1. Exhibition view, silk, paper weaves and colour catchers 2. Exhibition view, woven textile piece 3. Exhibition view, woven textile piece 4. Exhibition view, coloured vases 5. Exhibition view, colour catchers and woven textile pieces 6. Exhibition view, colour catchers
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We see the world in colour, but rarely do we appreciate how it shapes what we see. In this unique exhibition, the acclaimed designer Hella Jongerius presents a reading of the world through colour. Drawing on years of research, she sets out to make us look deeper at the way colour behaves – on shapes and surfaces, in shadows and reflections. Through a series of phenomenological studies and experiences, the exhibition makes us question one of the most elemental aspects of design. How does colour behave on different forms and textures? What happens if you bend or fold a surface? How does a hue change at different times of the day? Where does colour end and its shadow begin? Hella Jongerius’ studies into such questions form the basis of what is an extraordinary sensory experience. The exhibition contains hundreds of dynamic elements, from textiles and porcelain tiles to what she calls ‘colour catchers’ and ‘3D colour wheels’, multi-faceted geometric mobiles that display the complex behaviour of light and movement on surfaces. Rich in sensory experiences and layered with cultural interpretation, this is an exhibition that inspires both design industry insiders and a broad audience drawn to the dynamics of colour in design, art and life. CURRENT EXHIBITIONS | 18
NEW OLD: Designing for our Future Selves CURATOR Jeremy Myerson is Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design, RCA EXHIBITION DESIGN Plaid London GRAPHIC DESIGN LucienneRoberts+ CATALOGUE 176 pages, 100 colour illustrations (see p. 28) VENUES Design Museum, London 12 January – 19 February 2017 Łódź Design Festival, Poland 3 – 17 October 2017 Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan 13 January – 22 April 2018 Pratt Manhattan Galler, New York 24 January – 12 May 2020 1. Future Facility, Amazin Apartment (design commission) 2. Sebastian Conran/ Consequential Robotics, MiRO Dog 3. Exhibition view (right), Alan Dye/NB Studio, Signs of the Time 4. Exhibition view, Yves Behar, Fuseproject and Superflex, Aura Power Suit (design commission) 5. PriestmanGood, Scooter for Life (design commission) 6. Exhibition view, Special Projects, Exchange (design commission)
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TENTATIVE Bucharest Spring 2019
This exhibition looks at how design can help people lead fuller, healthier and more rewarding lives into old age, asking the question: how can designers meet the challenge of a rapidly ageing society? From robotic clothing to driverless cars, ‘NEW OLD’ rethinks design approaches to ageing. The exhibition is organised into six sections: Ageing, Identity, Home, Community, Working and Mobility, each featuring a special design commission by a leading designer or design team, creating new solutions for demographic change as well as addressing the challenges of ages. With new projects by Yves Béhar/fuseproject, Konstantin Grcic, Future Facility, Special Projects, IDEO and Priestman Goode, alongside products, prototypes and outstanding examples of infrastructure and urban planning, ‘NEW OLD’ examines how innovation and design can reimagine how we live the later stages of our lives.
TOUR AVAILABILITY before Spring 2019 from Summer 2019 to late 2019 and from May 2020 SPACE approx. 250 square metres
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In the Making CURATORS Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby are a duo of internationally acclaimed designers whose eponymous studio has been based in London since 1996 Margaret Cubbage is an independent curator and worked at the Design Museum from 2008 to 2018 EXHIBITION DESIGN Universal Design Studio GRAPHIC DESIGN Build VENUES Design Museum, London 22 January – 4 May 2014 Irish Design at Dublin Castle 29 December 2014 – 17 March 2015 The Wilson, Cheltenham 11 July – 20 September 2015 Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi 9 November 2017 – 11 February 2018 TOUR AVAILABILITY from early 2019 SPACE 200 – 400 square metres 1. Single piece of bent wood (Thonet Chair) 2. Straight horn (French Horn) 3. Exhibition view 4. Exhibition view
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Curated by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, ‘In the Making’ captures objects mid-manufacture and puts the aesthetic of the unfinished centre stage. Varying from a cricket bat to a MacBook, a surprising range of objects has been chosen by Barber and Osgerby to be exhibited in an unfinished state, celebrating the intriguing beauty of the making process and revealing the unexpected quality that everyday objects have before assuming their final, recognisable form. The exhibition provides a glimpse of the designers’ ongoing dialogue with manufacturing that is so distinctive to their practice. Throughout their careers, Barber and Osgerby have had a technical curiosity and fascination with the making process. The way in which things are created has had a profound influence on them and continually inspires their work. These partially-made objects give an insight into the design thinking that has driven this duo to such acclaimed success, including designing the London 2012 Olympic Torch, which went on to be awarded the Design Museum’s Design of the Year 2012. Their multidisciplinary approach challenges the boundaries of industrial design, architecture and art.
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VENUES Design Museum, London 9 March – 15 September 2013 Modemuseum Hasselt, Belgium 30 January – 16 August 2015 The Lighthouse, Glasgow 21 January – 20 March 2016 National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto 6 June – 18 July 2016 Ueno-Mori Royal Museum, Tokyo 26 July – 24 August 2016 Matsuzakaya Museum, Nagoya 10 September – 16 October 2016 Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei 17 June – 2 September 2017 Modern Art Museum (MAM), Shanghai 10 October 2017 – 7 January 2018 Today Art Museum, Beijing 8 June – 7 October 2018 FUTURE VENUES Shenzhen Bay Art Centre 7 December 2018 – 15 April 2019 Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul 10 April – 18 August 2019 TENTATIVE Gwanju October 2019 – January 2020 SPACE 600 – 1000 square metres AVAILABILITY from early 2020
Hello, My Name is Paul Smith CURATOR Donna Loveday is an independent curator, writer and Course Leader for MA Curating Contemporary Design at the Design Museum and Kingston School of Art EXHIBITION DESIGN Richard Greenwood Partnership GRAPHIC DESIGN Aboud Creative CATALOGUE 272 pages, 200 colour illustrations (see p. 29)
In a career spanning over 40 years, Paul Smith has become one of Britain’s foremost designers. The Paul Smith brand is known for an unmistakable classic Englishness augmented with a colourful ‘twist’. The exhibition explores how Paul Smith’s unique and intuitive take on design, coupled with a deep understanding of the relationship between designer and retailer, have laid the foundations for the company’s lasting success. It charts the company’s development from Paul’s first shop in Nottingham to its now global scale. The exhibition, which has broken visitor attendance records, is presented through the different stages of design and production behind a catwalk collection, offering great insight into Paul Smith’s design and marketing process. It also looks to explore the passions of Paul himself, what drives him as a designer and the significant items, people and places that have inspired him during his extensive career.
1. Exhibition view, ‘The Collections’ 2. Exhibition view, MINI Cooper, designed exclusively for the exhibition 3. Exhibition view, ‘Paul’s Office’ 4. Paul Smith A/W 2018 campaign 5. Exhibition view, video installation, ‘Inside Paul’s Head’ 6. Paul Smith Shop off Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, 2005
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exhibition catalogues
STUDIO MAKKINK&BEY, CONCEPTROOM HUISRAAD, 2014
A rich and provocative survey of the aspirational, radical and futuristic visions of the home, from the twentieth century to the present. Richly illustrated with over 200 colour images, showcasing rare and unusual drawings, products, prototypes and interior schemes which have impacted how we live today. Featuring rarely seen material from Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio, Enzo Mari, Archigram, Dunne & Raby, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Joe Colombo and many more. Original essays on the home and its future by leading voices in the field, including Pier Vittorio Aureli, Adam Greenfield, Sarah Kember, Deyan Sudjic and Emilio Ambasz.
Home Futures: Living in Yesterday’s Tomorrow Edited by Eszter Steierhoffer and Justin McGuirk Eszter Steierhoffer is Senior Curator at the Design Museum Justin McGuirk is Chief Curator at the Design Museum
The twentieth century offered up countless visions of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanised home or the notion that technology might free us from home altogether, the domestic realm was a site of endless invention and speculation. But what happened to those visions? Are the smart homes of today the future that architects and designers once predicted, or has ‘home’ proved resistant to radical change? ‘Home Futures: Living in Yesterday’s Tomorrow’ explores a number of different attitudes toward domestic life, tracing the social and technological developments that have driven change in the home. It proposes that we are already living in yesterday’s tomorrow, just not in the way anyone predicted.
November 2018 UK January 2019 worldwide 240 x 170mm 336pp 260 colour illustrations Softcover | Worldwide rights £29.95 | €39.95 | $49.95 978-1-872005-42-3
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Exhibition Catalogues
Designs of our Time: 10 Years of Designs of the Year
Ferrari: Under the Skin
Edited by the Design Museum editors and curators
Edited by Andrew Nahum and Martin Derrick
A one-of-a-kind compendium featuring the best in design over the past decade
Covering 70 years of Ferrari the man, Ferrari’s design and Ferrari the legend
December 2017 UK January 2019 worldwide 166 x 118mm 976pp 840 colour illustrations Softcover | Worldwide rights £19.95 | €24.95 | $29.95 978-1-872005-38-6
November 2017 co-published with Phaidon Press 270 x 205mm 240pp 200 colour illustrations Hardcover | Worldwide rights £39.95 | €49.95 | $49.95 978-0-714875-18-7
NEW OLD: Designing for our Future Selves
Hello, My Name is Paul Smith
Edited by Jeremy Myerson
Contributions from Paul Smith and Deyan Sudjic
Exploring the potential for new design to enhance the experience of later life
Celebrating over forty years of this playful English fashion brand October 2013 co-published with Rizzoli 280 x 240mm 272pp 200 colour illustrations Hardcover | Worldwide rights $65.00 978-0-847841-58-5
January 2017 240 x 170mm 176pp 100 colour illustrations Softcover | Worldwide rights £15.00 978-1-872005-55-3
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June 2016 published in Japanese only 302 x 215mm 176pp 200 colour illustrations Hardcover | JP rights ¥15.00 978-1-872005-47-8
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INTERIOR SHOT OF THE DESIGN MUSEUM, 2016
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PICTURE CREDITS Every reasonable attempt has been made to identify owners of copyright. Errors and omissions notified to the museum will be corrected in subsequent editions. Cover, © Roel Van Tour; p.2, Gravity Road; pp.3-4, Iwan Baan; p.5, ©NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS; p.6, © Foster + Partners; p.7, (top left) © Scewo, (top right) © Nike, (middle left) © Riposte Magazine, (middle right) © NLÉ, (bottom left) © Google, (bottom right) © Abake; p.8, © Luke Hayes; pp.9-10, © Luke Hayes; p.11, © Superstudio; p.12, Photography by Benoît Fougeirol © Domeau & Pérès / Specta Films CEPEC; p.13, (top left) © Brad Feinknopf / OTTO, (top right, bottom) © Adjaye Associates; p.14, © Adjaye Associates; p.15, (top left) © Luke Hayes, (top right) © Ferrari S.p.A., (middle left) © Gary Watson, (middle right), © Flavio Manzoni / Ferrari S.p.A., (bottom) © Luke Hayes; p.16, © Paul Zak; pp.17-18, © Luke Hayes; p.19, (top) © Future Facility, (middle left) © Sebastian Conran Associates, (middle right, bottom left) © Luke Hayes, (bottom right) © PriestmanGoode / Adam Woodward; p.20, Luke Hayes; pp.21-22, © Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi; p.23, (top left) © MAM, Shanghai, (top right) © Paul Smith Ltd., (middle left, right) © Paul Smith Ltd., (bottom) © MAM, Shanghai; p.24, © Paul Smith Ltd and Anthony Crolla; pp.25-6, © Tommy de Lange; pp.27-30, © Design Museum Publishing; pp.31-2, © Gareth Gardner Cover image: Colour Catcher for Breathing Colour by Hella Jongerius
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