Notes about product design

June 17, 2013 permalink

Why would you design something, if it didn’t improve the human condition?

From the NY Times obit for Niels Diffrient, industrial designer and ergonomics pioneer (among other things, he designed the Polaroid SX-70 Land camera and worked with Henry Dreyfuss and Eero Saarinen on furniture and devices like the Bell Systems princess telephone)

September 17, 2009 permalink

Halloween Bat Clothespins

I’d buy these, Halloween time or not. Vespertiulium Clothes Pegs, by Art. Lebedev Studio.

(Via FFFFOUND!)