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California's influence on the world

California is the most populous state in the USA, and for a century it has been vital to everything from aircraft manufacture to making movies, so the global influence of Californian culture may seem obvious. A new show at the Design Museum in London makes the case that what California has really given us is a sense of personal freedom. Our arts correspondent Vincent Dowd reports.

(Picture: Icon for the Apple Mac, 1984, Susan Kare notebook, courtesy of kareprints.com)

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