In 1869 the Viennese firm of Gebrüder Thonet gave up the patent its entire business was built on. What happened next was the opposite of what you would expect. The Thonet No....
Quel objet va nous permettre de parler naturellement à l’intelligence artificielle : une montre, des lunettes ou un appareil encore à inventer ? Je décrypte les pistes d’Apple, de Meta et d’OpenAI...
In 1977, Apple’s first CEO called it « the most expensive bloody logo ever designed. » Nearly fifty years later, it’s one of the most recognized symbols on earth, and almost everything people believe...
Dyson CameraJet : une brosse à dents à 479 € qui associe caméra, jet interdentaire et brossage électrique. Dans cet épisode de Mes Bricolos, je décrypte cette accumulation de technologies et je...
On June 1, 1932, the highest court in Germany ruled that a chair was a work of art. The man it handed the copyright to had filed no patent, registered no design,...
L’iPhone Duo se plie, mais est-ce une raison suffisante pour changer de téléphone ? Je décrypte le premier iPhone pliable d’Apple avec mon regard de designer : ses usages, son interface et...
In October 1994, a man at Microsoft booted up a preview build and watched a cartoon dog explain the software in Times New Roman. He thought that was wrong. Three days later...
The Museum of Modern Art holds object 150.2005: the GEM Paperclip, 1899, steel, gift of the manufacturer. It credits two designers. One is a British company with no company registration, no trade...
The Monobloc is the world’s most common chair. The cheap white plastic stacking chair found everywhere on Earth. Roughly a billion of them exist, at weddings, roadside cafés, schoolyards and refugee camps...