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• 1. Gary Rimmel  |  July 17th, 2009 at 07:20

  Two pieces of time warp work.

  1. Joy de Vivre – The idea of “crowd sourcing” in product development is not new at all and has a rough past, littered with start ups that never got beyond the website stage. I cannot find any examples of this process ever actually working, maybe if you were Google would you have the network to pull it off. It is a really poor model and the business grave yard is filled with attempts.

  People, learn from the past. The web does not change consumers buying all that much, it modified them and emphasized customer research and new models of distribution but we still want what we can run through our senses. We are still not willing to buy into a product that is in development, that is called investors, not customers.

  Good luck guys, I am sure that your intentions are in the right place but please do not claim innovation, and originality where it does not exist. You are in a well trodden territory.

  2. Fruity Bowl – Let me get this right. This holds one days worth of fruit? Where would I use this, on my office desk? The colour choice seems dated. Alessi, early nineties anyone? The material is crappy, we need things to be easily cascaded or recyclable. The form has been seen in so many objects, from desk top accessories and more, and has little to do with the semiotics of holding fruit or decorating a kitchen. This one seems like a dud design student project, “Yeah silicon and EZ molds, cool”. We need more in our products to be competitive in the real world and marketplace.

  Hate to be a nay sayer but as long as this site keeps putting up crappy things and calling them design I will be there to call them out.

  Gary Rimmel

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