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...
For most of the early 1960s, Verner Panton drove around Europe trying to persuade someone to manufacture a chair. Fifteen manufacturers turned him down. One well-known American designer said the thing shouldn’t...
In 1968, Herman Miller launched Action Office. It made the company hundreds of millions of dollars, transformed how most of the world works, and is still for sale today. The man who...
In September 1981, Ettore Sottsass sat in a taxi in central Milan and assumed a bomb had gone off. The street was blocked by a crowd of a thousand people. They were...