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Favorite product designs?
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Twilight Gap
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Jooze
Incredibly creative
WonderMega
Back when consoles were designed to look like they belong in a sci-fi anime series.
Twilight Gap
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Its only reason for existence was to be a stylish as fuck Gameboy.
IT HAD A MOTORIZED LID. So freaking cool!
A few more...
Mugen MF8 and MF10 wheels
Volk CE28
The wheel whore in me had to express itself.
JJDinomite
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So happy to have one.
Funky Papa
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One day...
HammerOfThor
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I never understood why the hate for the OG PS3 design is so common.
I always thought it looked awesome.
I always thought it looked awesome.
Funky Papa
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Knock-offs are numerous and cheap (is there such thing as a knock-off if the patents expired?) but real ones edited by Vitra run around €7,000-8,000. Herman Miller makes them for America at similar prices in USD. Utterly insane... but it's so damn gorgeous.
Still, I'm even more baffled by the prices of Eame's plastic chairs. These things are actually simple and cheap to make, yet they easily cost around €300 each. What the fuck.
Ha, my boss has those in his place.
Funky Papa
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Bumping because Patricia Urquiola's Husk Chair is giving me a bad case of the chubs
Modern classic in the making.
Modern classic in the making.
MemoryHumanity
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Buying these today because of this thread, had my eyes on the 701s, but these are too beautiful
hnggnhh... *sees price*... nnggh?
Funky Papa
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Don't look at the Husk Side Table...
The Husk Chair is not really that expensive going by high-end design standards, but I'm having a hard time justifying its purchase considering that I just bought a fantastic leather sofa for half of that.
Don't look at the Husk Side Table...
The Husk Chair is not really that expensive going by high-end design standards, but I'm having a hard time justifying its purchase considering that I just bought a fantastic leather sofa for half of that.
Jesus CHRIST. The price I saw was like 2400? Is that right? I was having trouble finding it but I'm also looking at work.
Kind of want this chair now.
Funky Papa
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The chair goes for about €2,200-2,700, so...
There's also an outdoors version for your baller pool and all that.
Unless I was loaded to the hilt, I'd save my money with knock offs and spend money on things that are actually hard to knock off... like a Herman Miller Embody chair, or one of the high end ergonomics - where chinese factories have no hope in replicating its desired functionality.
The knock off quality for classics like the Eames can also be pretty great... as long as you source it from the right place.
ThatObviousUser
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Space Avocat
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The perfect basketball. It's the worst feeling when playing pickup and the kid with this ball decides to leave.
killertofu
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This thread makes me wish I had a higher paying job
Haemolacria
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What a terrific thread. Most of my favourites have been mentioned, so I'll just make my own contribution to the musical instrument- and automotive-scene:
Gibson Les Paul Custom in Alpine White:
1970 Chevrolet Nova:
So sexy.
Gibson Les Paul Custom in Alpine White:
1970 Chevrolet Nova:
So sexy.
ThatObviousUser
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It's sad when you consider that Eames' furniture was deliberately designed to be inexpensive.
My picks;
I honestly don't see how they can improve the design of the iMac. Even the new ones are uglier, with that hump.
So cool but so expensive, I really wanted one for my desk but I ended up with an IKEA knockoff instead, which is okay but man, it's just not the same.
The Alfa Brera concept is just ridiculously beautiful. It's not pretty or sexy, it's a masculine handsome.
I'm so tempted to buy a reproduction, I already have the LTR but the ETR is so nice ;_;
The iPhone 4 was also absolutely incredible when it came out.
Sotijalo Hurmerinta
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Tesoro Durandal Ultimate G1NL Mechanical keyboard.
Funky Papa
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Design furniture is a crock of shit. Almost as scam for the wealthy, really.
Companies like Vitra and Herman Miller claim that they only offer the best quality products by sticking to the original specs, but in reality this means that super expensive pieces feature critical design failures derived from the tecnology of their era. A terrible example of this is the very costly Eames lounge chair, which features a set of shock mounts that will snap the wood panels in half over time. I mean, there are video tutorials for the fixes and shit.
At the same time, those companies will also change materials and stray from the original specs if it suit them. Eames plastic chairs were originally made of fiber glass, which means they would disintegrate over time (literally) so now they are being manufactured in plastic like any cheap clone. Fit and finish is obviously better, but that's about it.
I'm all for putting some bread (or caviar) on the designer's table, but given that many of the people behind the most iconic pieces of furniture are dead and the fact that their patents expired a long ass time ago, there's not even a point in calling an unlicenses Ball Chair a "knock off". They are just as legit as the original ones. I wouldn't purchase an Eames Lounge Chair clone (mostly because the leather/stitching is nowhere near as good as "original" version, on top of many clones having the same structural issues) but at the same time I LAUGH at the notion of paying 500 for a mold injected plastic chair. Fuck off now, Vitra.
Beyonce Beytwice
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I love the design of my iPod Touch (5th gen) so much, that I sometimes wonder if I'm actually in love with it. Like, romantically.
Boaty McBoatface
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Same. I particularly want these:
$7000+.
We have these at work. There's no way they're worth that much.
The original Eero Aarnio Ball chairs? Hells yes, they are that expensive. Replicas however goes for under $600.
Boaty McBoatface
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Sorry I meant to say that the chairs aren't worth spending $7000 on, or any significant amount of money for what they are. I can totally see they're the kind of thing that would be sold for that much though lol.
Funky Papa
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Ball chairs are highway robbery. It's not like there are hard to manufacture or use premium materials or anything. The profit margins must be insane. Still, the bubble chair is even more outrageous
It's a bubble made of clear plastic. It costs 3,500.
Fuck.
Off.
It's a bubble made of clear plastic. It costs 3,500.
Fuck.
Off.
ThatObviousUser
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Link plz!
I want...
The Technomancer
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Ball chairs are highway robbery. It's not like there are hard to manufacture or use premium materials or anything. The profit margins must be insane. Still, the bubble chair is even more outrageous
It's a bubble made of clear plastic. It costs 3,500.
Fuck.
Off.
How do you sit in that without getting a cramp in your neck?
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