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Usually when I surf through the CGTalk forum I see plenty of creativity when it comes to character design, but when it comes to products\/objects what I find are mostly attempts to model real world designs. There are plenty of Mercedes this and Ferrari that, but relatively speaking very few original product designs. Thus it’s difficult to not appreciate Kadeg Boucher’s “stupid object #1 : Lawn Mower schumacher” (shown above). What a great piece. For more images, check out the thread on CGTalk (Link)<\/a>. Well, we might get a chance to find out if “makers” are any more creative. A post on Design Sojourn<\/a> reminded me of Bug Labs<\/a>‘ modular, hackable, open source hardware platform. I first caught wind of the latest news over on the MIT Technology Review site (Link)<\/a>, but it’s been popping up across the net quite a bit lately. I’ll be interested in what develops; especially anything that might contribute to the Open Hardware Licensing effort<\/a> (which, last I read, had begun to stall).<\/p>\n {Image Copyright \u00c2\u00a9 Kadeg Boucher<\/a>}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Usually when I surf through the CGTalk forum I see plenty of creativity when it comes to character design, but when it comes to products\/objects what I find are mostly attempts to model real world designs. There are plenty of … Continue reading
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\nBoucher’s fanciful effort once again makes me wonder why corporations – in this case MTD<\/a>, Toro<\/a>, Snapper<\/a>, John Deere<\/a> and the rest – don’t add a little more flair to their products. To my consumer eye, those riding lawnmowers all look so… plain vanilla. This reminds me of those urban vinyl ketchup and mustard bottle sculptures<\/a> that made regular condiment bottles seem excruciatingly stale. Must corporate product design be so utterly boring?<\/p>\n