Hasta La Ideas

pI’m not convinced it would work as a dustpan with that chunky lip, but I like the concept of Lufdesign’s combination A HREF=”http://lufdesign.blogspot.com/2008/10/dustpanbin.html” DustPan+Bin/A; simply flipping it 90 degrees changes it from one object to the other. /p

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pThe demo photos show crumpled-up wads of paper being the target objects of sweepery, but that’s not a domestic situation I encounter, probably because I’m not a tortured author./p

pNow what Iwould/I be cool is if there was a slot in the dustpan lip connected to a hidden internal Dustbuster…./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/lufdesigns_combo_dustpanbin_16529.asp”(more…)/a
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pWhen it comes to international styles, there is a French aesthetic; there is a Japanese look and feel; there is a Scandinavian style; there is an Italian, a German, a Russian way of doing and presenting things./p

pSo what’s the American aesthetic? We’re often criticized or overlooked completely for being lacking in this category. But there is an American aesthetic, and it’s this:/p

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pIf only all commercials were like that./p

pvia A HREF=”http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6992.cfm” fimoculous/Abr /
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pThe year 2020 seems to be shorthand for the future. In 2008 CNN and Ericsson collaborated on “A HREF=”http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/just_imaginewhat_will_life_be_like_in_2020_11402.asp” Just imagine…what will life be like in 2020?/A” while 2009 saw the creation of the “A HREF=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/2020_architect_project_peers_into_the_future_the_scientific_way_12380.asp” Vision 2020: Considering the World and the Future Architect/A” project. /p

pThis year frogdesign, prompted by IForbes/I, sounded off with “A HREF=”http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/envisioning-your-future-in-2020.html” Envisioning Your Future in 2010/A.” Hit the link to check out their ThingBook (augmented reality), Bodynet (“like Google for our bodies”) and Whuffie Meter (turning social networking capital into actual currency) concepts. /p

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pIncidentally, frog’s images remind us of the awesome and undercelebrated infographics laid over Will Ferrell by A HREF=”http://www.mk12.com/” MK12 Studio/A for 2006’s “Stranger Than Fiction.” The footage is sadly unembeddable, but you can see it by A HREF=”http://youtube.com/watch?v=XObJUPwJ5u0feature=related” clicking here/A.br /
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pOne of the things they taught us at ID school was that a product about to go extinct will, in its dying design throes, begin to resemble its successor; its designers will fruitlessly mimic the look of the incoming technology in a bid to prevent the incumbent from being eclipsed. Thus landline phones, the thinking goes, will in their last iteration look like cell phones, and even muscle cars like the Mustang of the ’60s sadly started to look more like the Honda CVCC’s of the ’70s./p

pWhich brings us to an interesting question: What will external hard drives look like before they disappear? Since the replacement technology–offsite storage–is invisible, what will they mimic?/p

pIn some cases they will mimic…nothing, or should we say, nothingness. For example LaCie’s line of Sam-Hecht- and Neil-Poulton-designed hard drives are ultra-minimal black boxes with as much in the way of visual features as Wonder Woman’s invisible jet. /p

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pOn the other hand Seagate, which A HREF=”http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/05/05/newly-competitive-seagate-spins-new-ideas-in-hard-drives/” announced its revamped-design hard drives/A this morning, is mimicking something else sitting on some customers’ desks–Apple laptops. /p

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pBoth companies’ designs seems to be trying to disappear, either vying for invisibility or seeking to blend into objects already on the desk surface like a chameleon. Almost like they’re saying “Maybe if they can’t see us, they won’t throw us away!”br /
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pMaybe guys are, after all, really just suckers for shiny things: I don’t know the first thing about cycling but I started to covet these gorgeous CrankBrothers bike pedals as soon as I saw them. Made from manly-sounding materials like stamped steel, forged chromoly and machined aluminum, their line-up comes in five variants: Eggbeater (racing), Candy (mountain), Acid (gravity racing), Mallet (downhill) and 5050 (freeriding)./p

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pIn addition to pedals, the California-based A HREF=”http://www.crankbrothers.com/” CrankBrothers/A manufacture a full line of bike accessories including wheelsets, bars, stems, seatposts, and even pumps and a line of custom cyclist’s multi-tools. Though the categories are different, they all share the same slick aesthetic, which has its provenance in many different places: CB’s inspiration page cites sources as diverse as Bang Olufsen, Marc Newson and Mandarina Duck. Check out their full lineup of stuff A HREF=”http://www.crankbrothers.com/pedals_eggbeater.php” here/A./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/crankbrothers_bad-ass_bike_parts_16506.asp”(more…)/a
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