These ketchup packs made me think about the previous shapes of objects. We are surrounded by things with an evolution history. Few of them are created and used as raw, without hard modification. Even the simplest materials requires some treatment.
Category: Productos
An iPhone 5 was offered as a contest prize in August 2011. Even with no official news or release. Kind of funny.
Seen in Beijing.
Some days ago I found this unused parking meter near a comercial area in Beijing. It was installed about 5 years ago, but for nothing. I was told that car owners didn’t know how to use it, and didn’t care about the whole thing. Now it stands as a testimony of the locals slipshod sense for authority.
Expectation gap between what you think you will find in a drugstore and what you actually run into.
I’ll call it a hatbrella. Seen in Hong Kong.
De la marca por parecer lo que no es y del consumidor por vestir lo que no tiene. El deseo aspiracional, ese fantástico ingrediente del comportamiento humano.
Visto en Yanqing, Beijing.
My Freedom Or Death – Condition ONE Beta from Danfung Dennis on Vimeo.
“Condition ONE is a mobile media technology company developing the tools and platform for leading filmmakers, photojournalists and visual storytellers to create powerful immersive experiences for next generation devices to engage a global audience.”
Espectacular.
El valor añadido atribuible a un producto por ser de “alta tecnología” no tiene límites ni fecha de caducidad.
Visto en un walmart de Beijing.
“Adecuación, propiedad según la cual las características físicas de un objeto o un entorno influyen en su función.” Extraído del muy recomendable Principios universales de diseño.
Uno de las ideas más fáciles de entender en relación al diseño funcionalista es el conocido de “la forma sigue a la función”. Sin embargo a veces nos olvidamos de que existe con frecuencia más de una forma (o camino) para encontrar la solución.