Comments on: When Style Trumps http://www.niblettes.com/blog/2006/11/13/when-style-trumps/ Tasty Little Nuggets of Design and Innovation Goodness Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:13:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: niti bhan http://www.niblettes.com/blog/2006/11/13/when-style-trumps/#comment-5870 niti bhan Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:37:40 +0000 http://www.niblettes.com/blog/2006/11/13/when-style-trumps/#comment-5870 They're Bang & Olufson, purveyors of fine European styling and design for decades. This is their exemplar of that approach to product design for the consumer, a finished masterpiece as conceived by a designer, as work of art, not a functional utility piece. So. They’re Bang & Olufson, purveyors of fine European styling and design for decades. This is their exemplar of that approach to product design for the consumer, a finished masterpiece as conceived by a designer, as work of art, not a functional utility piece. So.

]]> By: Daniel Scocco http://www.niblettes.com/blog/2006/11/13/when-style-trumps/#comment-5399 Daniel Scocco Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:29:42 +0000 http://www.niblettes.com/blog/2006/11/13/when-style-trumps/#comment-5399 "Too bad it looks an aweful lot like those cheap travel clocks" could not have said it better myself, the question then becomes: why do you think they actually produced this piece of... phone? lack of touch with customers? lack of testing? lack of managers willing to call bullshit when they see it? “Too bad it looks an aweful lot like those cheap travel clocks”

could not have said it better myself, the question then becomes: why do you think they actually produced this piece of… phone? lack of touch with customers? lack of testing? lack of managers willing to call bullshit when they see it?

]]> By: niblettes http://www.niblettes.com/blog/2006/11/13/when-style-trumps/#comment-5304 niblettes Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:54:25 +0000 http://www.niblettes.com/blog/2006/11/13/when-style-trumps/#comment-5304 Ha ha! "turd of a phone"! Ha ha! “turd of a phone”!

]]> By: Tasos http://www.niblettes.com/blog/2006/11/13/when-style-trumps/#comment-5273 Tasos Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:43:40 +0000 http://www.niblettes.com/blog/2006/11/13/when-style-trumps/#comment-5273 Agree with you mate; it's an underconsidered and overworked turd of a phone. It's only reason for existence is... hang on there is no reason! Agree with you mate; it’s an underconsidered and overworked turd of a phone. It’s only reason for existence is… hang on there is no reason!

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