LITTLE RED BOOSTER

There’s a point somewhere in our collective sphere of consciousness at which art and science collide, blurring the lines between what is artfully scientific and what’s scientifically artistic. Look at fractals and Mandelbrot sets, or the twisted physics of M.C. Escher’s lithographs, or da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. The periodic table of elements has a functional artistry to it. You might even argue that it’s impossible for science to exist without art, and vice versa.

And so it is with this Mini. The aesthetics may be subtle but these still waters run deep; there’s a crisp cleanness to the manner in which it presents itself, a beautiful simplicity that will appeal keenly to a certain type of enthusiast. But what we’re looking at here is a bit of a sleeper. A stealth missile. An iron fist in a velvet glove. There’s scientific brilliance hidden within the artistic package. We first happened across Richard Mcaneny’s little red