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The book Dictator Style lacks a chapter on Fidel Castro, so perhaps we'll never know if the Comandante en Jefe was a fan of ID. Still, the island is making progress: Cuba's only design school, El Instituto Superior de Deseno Industrial, has just produced the first two students--architect Miriam Abreu Oramas and industrial designer Sergio Luis Pena Martinez--to achieve Master's Degrees in Management and Innovation Design.

Let's hope their sense of design isn't skewed; after all, Cuba's the only place on Earth where American cars are still cool.

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