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Recent Posts
- MIKHAIL KAUFMAN: portraits 04/05/2022
- VUFKU 100 13/03/2022
- Rodchenko’s Birthday 05/12/2021
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: trainspotting! 11/12/2020
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: reflections 24/11/2020
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the first cinema screening 24/09/2020
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the film locations 29/06/2020
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the film locations 29/06/2020
- Adriano Olivetti 27/02/2020
- Why is Computer Design stuck in the 1950s? 04/04/2018
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the movie cameras 26/02/2018
- The movie cameras in Man with a Movie Camera 26/02/2018
- Apple Park 24/07/2017
- Archispeak #1 – TEA, Tenerife 11/01/2017
- Dismal Designs – Nikon D5 30/10/2016
- Delightful Designs – 1946 SIRIO Elettra II camera 10/10/2016
- Japanese Style 22/07/2016
- Whistler’s Haircut 27/04/2016
- Beyond The Dreaming Spires 11/04/2016
- Leica 1 Model C – The First System Camera 29/02/2016
- Blot on the Historic Townscape 21/02/2016
- Dismal Designs – The Hearing Aid 09/01/2016
- A Factory Filled with Light – Olivetti at Pozzuoli 13/11/2015
- Great Designers Remembered – Pier Giorgio Perotto and the first PC 28/10/2015
- Dismal Designs – New Google Logo 15/09/2015
- Miniature Masterpiece – Leica FIKUS Variable Lens Hood 03/09/2015
- Disappointing Designs – Apple Watch 18/08/2015
- Memorable Images – Henry Taunt 19/07/2015
- Duane Hanson at the Serpentine 16/07/2015
- Blots on the Cityscape – The Ruin of London? 15/07/2015
- Disappointing Designs – Alfa Romeo Giulia 07/07/2015
- Golden Silver – The Beauty of Nickel Plate 02/07/2015
- Delightful Designs – Arteluce Bean Bag Light 15/06/2015
- Housing Design Crisis 12/06/2015
- Blot on the Landscape – Close-board Fencing 10/06/2015
- Delightful Designs – Alessi Birdsong Tea Strainer 08/06/2015
- Miniature Masterpieces – Leica RASAL and ROSOL Frame Finders 31/05/2015
- Hiroshige at the Ashmolean 01/02/2015
- Blot on the Townscape #2 – The Blade, Reading 01/02/2015
- Miniature Masterpieces – Leica APDOO, WINKO, WINTU and AUFSU 01/02/2015
- Dismal Designs – Premier Inn 01/02/2015
- Blot on the Historic Landscape – The Port Meadow Scandal 09/01/2015
- Peter Overs – Emu Dreaming 08/01/2015
- Dismal Designs – new Mini 04/01/2015
- Miniature Masterpieces – Leica VISOR, VIDOM and VIOOH viewfinders 03/01/2015
- Alessi Makes Serious Coffee 29/12/2014
- Blot on the Townscape #1 – Oxford 29/12/2014
- Great Designers Remembered – George C Blickensderfer and the First Portable Typewriter 29/12/2014
- Constructivism in Tenerife! 19/12/2014
- Dismal Designs – Fiat Fiorino 19/12/2014
Category Archives: product design
Rodchenko’s Birthday
С Днем Рождения Александр Михайлович! Rodchenko in his Productivist work suit, folded parts of the Spatial Construction sculptures in the background, c1924. Photograph by Mikhail Kaufman. Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko was born in St Petersburg on the 5th December 1891 (New … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cameras, Constructivism, Design, Graphic Design, Leica, Photography, product design, Uncategorized
Tagged Constructivism, Photography, Soviet Union
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Adriano Olivetti
Adriano Olivetti in memoriam 11th April 1901 – 27th February 1960 A film about the greatest industrialist of them all: https://youtu.be/Ax_zKlnSxHE
Posted in Architecture, Art, Computers, Design, Housing, Housing Design, Personal Computers, product design, Typewriters, Uncategorized
Tagged Adriano Olivetti, Architecture, Design, Design Italiano, Industrial design, Italian design, Italy, Ivrea, Olivetti, Typewriters
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Why is Computer Design stuck in the 1950s?
Compared to my first computer, an Apple Macintosh 128K, the modern device has an awesome amount of computing power. I have just bought a Hewlett Packard ‘All-in-One’ PC with wireless keyboard and mouse, 24″ screen, 8GB of RAM and … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Design, Personal Computers, product design, Uncategorized
Tagged Computer design, Design, Hewlett Packard, Industrial design, McAfee, McAfee LiveSafe, Microsoft, Windows 10
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Delightful Designs – 1946 SIRIO Elettra II camera
As well as being a Leica fan I’m also intrigued by the many ‘Look-a-Leicas’ that mostly appeared in the decade after WW2. The launch of the first Leica in 1925 caused a sensation, changing the way people took photographs. Tens … Continue reading
Posted in Camera, Cameras, Design, Italian Design, Leica, Photography, product design, Uncategorized
Tagged Cameras, Copy Leicas, Design, FED cameras, Italian cameras, Leica cameras, Leica copies, Photography, Product design, SIRIO Elettra II
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Dismal Designs – The Hearing Aid
WHY ARE HEARING AIDS SO BADLY DESIGNED AND OVER-PRICED? An elderly relation of mine has some Starkey 3 Series hearing aids which cost an extraordinary £2,500 ($3,600)! Apart from the outrageous price, of which more later, this is one of the most … Continue reading
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Tagged Hearing aids, Starkey hearing aids
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Great Designers Remembered – Pier Giorgio Perotto and the first PC
This month marks the 50th Anniversary of the launch of the world’s first commercially produced personal computer, the Olivetti Programma 101, during the Business Equipment Exhibition at the New York World’s Fair in October 1965. No, it wasn’t IBM, Hewlett-Packard, or … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Italian Design, Olivetti, Personal Computers, product design
Tagged 1965 New York World's Fair, First PC, First Personal Computer, Mario Bellini, National Museum of Computing, Olivetti computers, Olivetti Programma 101, Pier Giorgio Perotto
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Delightful Designs – Alessi Birdsong Tea Strainer
Alessi ‘Tea Matters’ Melodic Tea Strainer – Alan Chan 2010 No other manufacturer would, or could, make such a quirky and delightful product. Ostensibly for straining tea but imagined as a cage containing the strainer in the shape of a bird, all … Continue reading
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Tagged alan chan, Alessi, bird song, birdsong tea strainer, chinese birdcages, Tea Matters tea strainer, tea strainer
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