Phorm, Springfield, USA – A Warning to Designers
This is a warning to all designers or companies to think twice before working with Trent Schaible of Phorm in Springfield, USA. Phorm Fit Living or PhormFitLiving is their site. It’s a nice site, just a shame they don’t seem to want to pay for what they sell.
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Utilising the handmade skills of master craftsmen, HULGER have produced their first ever wooden PIP*PHONE. Fashioned from the distinctively grained African hardwood Ziricote, long used for decorative objects, the phone blends innovation with tradition.
The Ziricote* comes in it own wooden box and is accompanied by a pot of wax, for treatment. Like all our favourite [...]
Mocoloco have now had the P*PHONE and P*BASE for a month now and have just written the most comprehensive review to date.
Digital Wellbeing Labs, a new retail concept now permanently stationed at the Bluebird shop on London’s Kings Road are launching a new show on thursday:
“Into the Woods…” showcases the sometimes weird and wonderful relation between technology and nature through a selection of products, software and [...]
We like Duncan Wilson’s updated cup phone, entitled the Cup Communicator
It’s quite interesting to see how “planned obsolescence” has managed to permeate nearly every product since Brookes Stevens coined the phrase fifty years ago. Perhaps it’s now time to reverse the trend.
Another of Stevens’ many “claims to fame” was to coin the phrase “planned obsolescence.” in 1954. Stevens was due to give a [...]