New Phonebook Makes Phone Fun Again
Making the technology simple or making the product complex? ...
"If you’ve got room for this strange looking phone, it could be an interesting conversationg piece, but other than that, it looks pretty confusing to me. Called the Phonebook by Krohn Design, it’s a telephone, answering maching and message printer that looks a bit like the old file-o-fax.When you want to change modes, you flip the plastic pages—and as you flip, you’ll be educated as to what the buttons on the phone do for each mode. Ask me, I’ll take a pass, but if you’re a design freak, it could be kind of cool.
Comment: This phone was designed in the late 80's as a conceptual work and, as far as I know, was never produced. This is an example of a design movement called "Product Semantics" which proposed the idea that potentially confusing and mysterious technology ought to communicate its purpose and function through the creative use of form and metaphor. That is why this looks like a Filofax. There were also answering machines that looked like mailboxes, for example. David Gresham and Martin Thaler had a firm called Design Logic that was at the forefront of this movement." continued ... (Via Gizmodo)
"If you’ve got room for this strange looking phone, it could be an interesting conversationg piece, but other than that, it looks pretty confusing to me. Called the Phonebook by Krohn Design, it’s a telephone, answering maching and message printer that looks a bit like the old file-o-fax.When you want to change modes, you flip the plastic pages—and as you flip, you’ll be educated as to what the buttons on the phone do for each mode. Ask me, I’ll take a pass, but if you’re a design freak, it could be kind of cool.
Comment: This phone was designed in the late 80's as a conceptual work and, as far as I know, was never produced. This is an example of a design movement called "Product Semantics" which proposed the idea that potentially confusing and mysterious technology ought to communicate its purpose and function through the creative use of form and metaphor. That is why this looks like a Filofax. There were also answering machines that looked like mailboxes, for example. David Gresham and Martin Thaler had a firm called Design Logic that was at the forefront of this movement." continued ... (Via Gizmodo)
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