Tuesday, October 7, 2008

IDEA Design Trend: Elegance and Simplicity

"Many of this year's top designs render complex objects more usable—or make humble things more intelligent"

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_30/b4093046747017.html

ZEPPELIN IPOD SPEAKER DOCK
Design: Native Design and Bowers & Wilkins (Britain)
This functional sculpture breaks the mold of home speakers; its polished steel arm integrates smoothly with an iPod (AAPL).

This unique model is both an artistic sculpture as well as a functional piece of technology. This article ties in the apparent trend within the world of art these days, or at least in my opinion what seems to be the apparent trend: of incorporating technology into art.

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