Sinclair C5 to guide development. Gus Desbarats, the C5's industrial designer, attributes the vehicle's flawed concept to Sinclair operating in a "bubble" and believes that Sinclair "failed to understand the difference between a new market, computing, and a mature one, transport, where there were more benchmarks to compare against". He comments that the experience of working on the C5 convinced him of the need for industrial designers such as himself to get "involved early in the innovation process, shaping basic configurations, never again [being] satisfied to simply decorate a fundamentally bad idea". Sinclair himself said in 2005 that the C5 "was early
Clive Sinclair (author) his work, entitled "Shylock Must Die" – based on the character Shylock – was published in July 2018. Clive Sinclair (author) Clive John Sinclair (19 February 1948 – 5 March 2018) was a British author who published several award-winning novels and collections of short stories, including "The Lady with the Laptop" and "Bedbugs". Sinclair, who was born into a Jewish family originally named Smolensky, grew up in Hendon, North London, and was educated at the University of East Anglia (BA, PhD), the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at the University of Exeter. Although his writing career began with short