foolfillment: the blog

I’m curious, I ask questions, I look at things and I wonder. I’m trying to get my 4th year Product Design class to do similarly.

Today we were looking at where they might get some inspiration for a radio they are designing. One of my favourite designers for getting conversations started is Phillipe Starck. The man is, quite simply, out of his tree. His work always elicits opinion. One thing I tried today towards the end of the lesson - out of my own curiosity - was to show them a picture of Starck’s Torche radio and get them to write down without discussion where they thought he might have got his ideas from.

I’d like to try it again here: without looking through any comments take a look at the image below and then try to think of an object, shape, motion, idea, or anything else that you think Starck might have had in mind when designing this radio. Once you have something skip to the bottom add a comment saying what you think his inspiration might have been. Then you can have a look to see what others saw in it - I expect most of you will have different answers.

In other news I’m a little disappointed that foolfillment didn’t make it into a list of 45 great blog designs - they must just not know about me yet (via Ewan’s delicious - everything I talk about at the moment seems to have come from there).