Japanese industrial design 1960s-1980s
I recently read about how transistor technology enabled a whole new range of products, or at least the shrinking of products. Japan was an early adopter of transistors…
Category: product design
VR events, brand collabs, breaking physics, socially distant live events
After reading Monique van Dusseldorp’s most excellent new newsletter on the future of (hybrid) events, I re-watched this Travis Scott x Fortnite video from April 2020. At the…
Essential writing from 2016
As 2017 is picking up steam and (especially under the ThingsCon banner) we’re working to make it a pivotal year for the creation of a responsible & human-centric…
#Homelab Kitchen at Mozfest
At this year’s Mozfest, Alexandra (designswarm) and I teamed up and, with support from the excellent Marcel & Harm (The Incredible Machine) joined the BBC R&D Homelab with…
Understanding the Connected Home: Shared connected objects
This blog post is an excerpt from Understanding the Connected Home, an ongoing exploration on the implications of connectivity on our living spaces. (Show all posts on this…
The 1926 Frankurt kitchen and what connected kitchens can learn from it
In 1926, Austrian arthitect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky designed the Frankfurt kitchen [Wikipedia], a kitchen concept aiming to be affordable and enable efficient work. Image: Frankfurt Kitchen (Wikimedia Commons) It…
Understanding the Connected Home: Augmentation not Automation
This blog post is an excerpt from Understanding the Connected Home, an ongoing exploration on the implications of connectivity on our living spaces. (Show all posts on this…