Hot of the presses is forthcoming design documentary Objectified‘s awesome one-sheet poster by Build, which is a veritable visual history of industrial design. How many silhouettes can you name? Updated with high-res file
Attention design nerds: prepare to drool. This ReBraun is an MP3 jukebox that’s based on the “Audio 1 Kompaktanlage” designed by Dieter Rams in 1962, and it’s awesome.
The year 2008 marks the 10th Anniversary of the iMac, the computer that changed everything at Apple, hailing a new design era spearheaded by design genius Jonathan Ive. What most people don’t know is that there’s another man whose products are at the heart of Ive’s design philosophy, an influence that permeates every single product at Apple, from hardware to user-interface design. That man is Dieter Rams, and his old designs for Braun during the ’50s and ’60s hold all the clues not only for past and present Apple products, but their future as well:
In our first hairless wonderland feature, we took a look at how you could rid your entire body of hair using three simple gadgets. The Mangroomer, the Flowbee and the Philips Bodygroom allows you to make sure your back, head and crotchular regions are free of any unslightly plumage. But what about the most important part of your body; the part that everyone looks at during a conversation (no, not your jiblets—and the Bodygroom has that covered)? Yes, we’re talking about the face. And with the Braun Pulsonic or the Gillette Fusion Power Phantom, you can be sure your mug is as glossy as the top of Patrick Stewart’s head.
Does this 1970′s Braun ET44 calculator look familiar? Well for you iPhone users it should, it seems to bear more than a striking resemblance to your calculator application, no? [Wired]
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The last time I went hands-on with a grooming device I was trying to grow hair. As life would have it, this time I’m trying to shave it with Braun’s new Pulsonic razor. The $239 machine claims it gives the closest shave you can get from an electric razor. How’d it do? Coming from a guy who’s been wet shaving all his life, not bad.
