CAMPANA BROTHERS: CONCEPTS
NY DESIGN WEEK 2013 - WANTED DESIGN
NY DESIGN WEEK 2013 - SATELLITE SHOWS
NY DESIGN WEEK 2013 - ICFF
Photography and Reporting by Deb Aldrich
Among the plethora of more than 200 iLounge Pavillion exhibitors with their cases, holders, folders, doodads and tchotchkes for iPhones, iPads and iPods, a few beautiful, simple, well-designed products stood out. One of these was Nest, the latest product from Bluelounge, the innovative, Pasadena-based studio that envisions and produces products designed to simplify our lives. A clean, straightforward, colorful molded plastic dish with a rubber grip around the outside rim, the Nest is immediately appealing and obviously useful. It not only holds an iPad, but with a slide-out drawer that tucks away flush with the dish, it can serve as a resting place for a phone or business cards. And, even when not storing your technology, the tray itself can hold keys, change and secret messages.
Comments
And what is it made of? And what does its end of life scenario look like? A "well designed product" considers that--especially for something where functionality is so independent of the material, like this plastic bowl.