Showing posts with label Order of Australia Member. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Order of Australia Member. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Peter Travis, 80 - Invented the Speedo in 1961

Peter Travis, Order of Australia Member, and a snappy dresser told this to the The Sydney Morning Herald: "... A Manly boy, Peter Travis was working for Speedo Holdings in 1960 when his boss asked him to re-create the overseas fashion of shorts in Hawaiian motif. "My reply was: 'The whole world will have that. I will start with a costume you will swim in,"' Travis, 80, says. ..." [Link]

That is the best way to design; function first, then form! Today's technology becomes tomorrows art.