Another World

I've just been watching Worth the Risk? the sixth volume of the Central Office of Information public information films to be released on DVD, and like the other discs in the series there is a bounty of fear, neurosis and death to delight all ages. 

It's difficult to single out one individual highlight from the dozens of shorts included here, but I've chosen to share Another World, one of the lesser known works of the fourth Doctor Who.

The uncredited 'soundtrack' (three minutes) is "all killer, no filler", the opening syncopated drums and fuzz bass like a poor man's Lalo Schifrin, moving to anxious brass and synth squelch. I would be grateful for any suggestions as to the identity of the composer - Alan Hawkshaw perhaps?

Desk Jockey

Jean Prouvé
Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona, 2007

Architect and designer Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) created some wonderfully spare and elegant furniture for industrial clients and municipal commissions in his native France during the middle decades of the last century, a time when égalité and the aesthetics of the visual environment were still respected concepts. Particular favourites are his educational furniture for schools and colleges.

Prove it: dapper neckwear

Also of interest is this design for an open-worked steel panel (1946-52) used in Prouvé's and other architects' building designs. Possible inspiration for the interior of the TARDIS?