Countless calendar clocks are inspired by the Dator 5 designed by Gino Valle and manufactured by Solari Udine in the mid- to late ’60s. Here is some tasty eye candy for flip clock fetishists.
Read on »Everyone knows George Nelson’s whimsical wall clocks, but not until I ran into Wright’s latest auction did I realize how many models he made for the desktop. Creating a clock...
Read on »Once known only to the closest followers of product design history, Dieter Rams is now becoming a mainstream hero of modernism. His work was included last year in an exhibition...
Read on »Flickr group member brum b pulled in quite the harvest from the Utrecht Collectors Fair.
Read on »Michael Dent has posted some beautiful shots of a beautiful machine: Dieter Rams’ SK 6 phonograph and radio for Braun. See also: Dieter Rams and Cold War Modern at the V&A : Dieter Rams Group on Flickr
Read on »“ Panasonic Radness! ”, recently submitted to our photo group by caco-wixtle
Read on »Update: Speaking of timepieces, BoomerangThang submitted this fine Seth Thomas (“ America’s oldest clockmaker ”) specimen to our photo group today.
Read on »Vintage Sony Radio , recently submitted to our photo group by 33 and a Third
Read on »The Bubble clock gets half its retro look from the colors and shape, the other half from the classic ’60s modern typeface: Eurostile.
Read on »I may have to take a trip to London just to see the V&A Museum’s Cold War Modern , “the first exhibition to explore international developments in modern art, design, architecture and film in the context of the Cold War”. The microsite offers several videos, including these two from white hot industrial design guru Dieter Rams.
Read on »“ mini speakers ”, recently submitted to our photo group by rudezindel
Read on »It presents the simple joy of photography and, without hyperbolizing or talking down to its audience, gives a comprehensive explanation of how the camera works. It wasn’t until the end that I learned that it was made by the Eames, but I probably should have known within the first few seconds.
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