New meets old
Some of the great stuff happening in the design world at present - young designers are playing with modern themes and technology, but bringing in touches of nostalgia and using wit and ingenuity. Take a look at this idea from a young product designer in Russia, ‘The Sand Watch‘.
With the changing demographic of audiences and generation gap blurring, nostalgia meets modern quirk is a perfect way to capture wider audiences - if anybody’s seen anything in this bracket I’d love to see it.
Just look at what Apple have been doing recently. I think technology is definitely starting to become more seamless with design, thank goodness. I’ve heard a lot recently about technology eventually becoming invisible to the consumer. Check out this article I came across the other day…
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/...