Retro-Future Product Design
I want to see companies start recreating classic and seemingly bygone products like the typewriter again.
Imagine if a company like Apple, with its flawless product design aesthetic came out with a fully functional, and supremely designed typewriter. Recreate a product category. Give it the modern Apple look, and have it function in a mechanically seamless way. It would be a joy to operate, and it would serve as sophisticated functional art when the muse was put on hold.
Or what about bringing back the 1970's/80's style boombox? Sure, the boombox has evolved into all sorts of rounded and easily portable devices. But, hey, I liked the look of the early 80's ghettoblaster, with its clunkish, blocky perfection. Give it the technology to hold a trillion jams, and make it shock proof, sure. But bring it back to the future baby! You can't tell me they wouldn't sell, so you better have another excuse why the 80's funkbox hasn't been digitally remastered and re-released into the wild!
Labels: boombox, product design, retro-future, typewriter
