Monday, September 24, 2007

Next Design Icon

Chairs, sitting there nicely, seen as design icon by many product designer. (Chairs sitting pretty as a design icon, but for how long? by Alice Rawsthorn)

What 's a design icon? Someone argue that the design icon should have certain criteria, so I started thinking about what are the basic elements of a chair? And more important, what should be add into these to qualify the next design icon?


I tried to analyze the most basic element of a chair as a design icon by sketching different chair designed by famous designer. Through this process I found out some basic elements within, and then I draw a diagram below:



Among these important elements I found out that..., So I started drawing some other pictures of cell phone to discover what the possibility would be for cell phone the be the next design icon:


And then I started to study the issue about "touch"...

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