It's kind of funny that back in the day, if you were an industrial design student and your model of your design lacked a certain amount of detailing, you would have been accused of doing a half-assed job; but now even commonplace objects have moved so far towards minimalism that the following sparsely-detailed model (or is it a rendering?) of a theoretical Holga digital camera looks high-end:
The concept is by designer Saikat Biswas, who's not a student, by the way, but a pro ID'er based out of Scandinavia. And Biswas' "Holga D" is not just an under-thought plain box--to the contrary, he's put lots of nice touches into it, like the reversible top that swaps the shutter button around for lefties:
We're also digging the swoopy little mini-flash:
Biswas has also put up some of his original sketches.
Be sure to check out the rest of the Holga D concept, and the thought that went into it, here.
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The 2 negatives I see are: no viewfinder (and seriously, why not?), secondly the fact that it is not film. The point of using expired fast film to produce the images are what I'd expect to see; digital noise is horrible, but film grain has a great character.
just cos everything's been squashed flat it doesnt make it minimal... all the typcial functions and mechanisms are still there!
but for a digital Holga still too many features.
would anyone know what was used to render these? 3dsmax? because they look amazing