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Death Of #IndustrialDesign And The Era Of Dull #Electronics
When you think of a Walkman, an iPod, a desktop computer, a car or a TV, the first thing that comes to mind is way it looks along with its user interface. This is the domain of industrial design, where circuit boards, mechanisms, displays and buttons are put into a shell that defines what users see and experience. Devices like cellphones and TVs are now mostly flat plastic-and-glass rectangles with no features.
hackaday.com/2025/07/23/the-de

Hackaday · The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull ElectronicsIt’s often said that what’s inside matters more than one’s looks, but it’s hard to argue that a product’s looks and its physical user experience are what makes it inst…

phone designers need to start thinking about phones as fidget toys first. if you look at where people see value and innovation, it's in tangible, analogue human interface.

teenage engineering has understood this for a while. their TP-7 is a US$1500 voice recorder that has a spinny little turntable that spins while you record and play which you can interrupt to pause recording or scratch it around like a DJ. it's sensational.

this flat seamless slab of glass stuff was only impressive while touchscreens were expensive and rare. now they're literally everywhere on everything, cheaper than buttons, and feel cheaper than buttons. people are craving, and paying waaay outside the median for physical controls with feedback controlling purposeful devices.

An exhibition at the Centraal Museum Utrecht focusing on the pioneering modernist industrial designer, artist, and architect Gerrit Rietveld.

Part of the De Stijl art movement, Rietveld was basically a bridge between the art of cubist painters like Picasso and Cézanne, and the world of design.

In turn, Reitveld and his peers had a wide influence that extended from Bahaus to the cartoon drawings of Dick Bruna.

#art #design #architecture #architect #Netherlands #artist #artists #IndustrialDesign #FurnitureDesign #Utrecht