![]() In total, he and his team designed over 130 clocks in just three decades. George’s clocks were one of his most impressive bodies of work. Nevertheless, whoever it was that came up with George Nelson’s designs, it’s almost certain that they would never have come to fruition if it wasn’t for George’s vision and forward-thinking approach. I don’t know to this day who cooked it up.” ![]() At some point we left – we were suddenly all tired, and we’d had a little bit too much to drink – and the next morning I came back, and here was this roll of paper, and Irving and I looked at it, and somewhere in this roll, there was a ball clock. Everybody was taking a crack at this, pushing each other aside and making scribbles. He said, ‘This is a good way to do a clock’ and made some utterly absurd thing. Noguchi came by, Bucky Fuller came by, and here was Irving, and here was I, and Noguchi - who can’t keep his hands off anything - he saw we were working on clocks and started making doodles. “It was one of the really funny evenings. Nelson famously recounted the story of how the Ball Clock came to life in an interview decades after it’s release: ![]() Some were even designed solely by someone else working at the studio. Interestingly, while nearly all of the designs that came out of George’s studio were attributed to him, many were actually designed by him and his team.
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