Posts tagged design

The Curta Mechanical Calculator was considered the best portable calculator available before handheld digital calculators took over the market in the 1970s.  Really interesting looking, beautiful mechanical object.

Equally interesting is the story of how it was invented.

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(via Art of Vitaly Bulgarov)

Plastic saving Wii-U disc case.

Something from my other project blog: motorsynchronous

1980s Nintendo Black Box Series artwork.
“By showing such honest pictures on the box, it made it hard for people to be unpleasantly surprised or disappointed when they fired up the actual game. This approach was in stark contrast to what Atari’s had been, where games often had excellent hand drawn box art, yet the games graphics hardly looked anything like what they were supposed to represent.”

Waiting in line.

Amazing set of  photos from Timothy Allen of an abandoned communist monument on Mount Buzludzha in Bulgaria.  Built in the 70s and abandoned after the revolution in 1989. It now looks like something that would exist on a remote ice planet.

And here’s what it looks like in the summer.

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(via BMW’s Designworks USA, Thermaltake reveal Level 10 M gaming mouse concept — Engadget)

I have a couple of old NASA worm logo vinyls… Considering a re-badge.