Kim & Co.. Nice Concept!!

I spoke recently with my friend Kim Haataja, and we looked at one of his projects. The new wrist computer concept is really nice and has many nice details in it! In my opinion, the design is better than some other, related projects I have seen. Since I know the project quite well, I must admit that this is somewhat the future of wrist computers.

Last week I learned that Sony Ericsson had taken in to usage the last nice feature I made to my bachelors thesis to Polar Electro, the combination of bluetooth and cellphone with a wrist computer, useful on extreme hobbies and extreme weather conditions. The concept was about Reading SMS and taking the information from a caller from the Mobile phone to one´s wrist computer. Also other features, as gps for performance monitoring, and gps with google earth have been now introduced by other companies. However, the experience to collaborate with Polar was really nice and truly gave answers to a hungry young designer.

design sketching afternoon...

Today I had no lectures or anything, so I decided to sketch a bit and look at some new techniques for sketching. I made a sketch on the Mercedes SL and also some on the iron-man project. This new way of taking scanned images further is quite nice!

package design - future could be brighter

Just wanted to write about a nice experience. Last November I took part in a workshop/course on package design, led by Prof. Michael B. Hardt. There we tried to create scenarios and concepts on the Future Package . The Lectures that Michael held during the course on future research were really interesting and gave ideas and a nice insight in packaging in general but also the methods used in defining routes for the future.

Our Team created this funky packaging system that actually would take us away from the usage of plastics and include new nanotechnology and the concept of "living package". As a concept example the team invented this make up package that would not only include nice aesthetic appearance, but also pointed out some weird new ways for the actual usage of the package. The Best possible: skin moisturizer that sweated out of the package when wanted.

illustration by Mikael

a sketch I made on the concept

On the elven cars design language again

I made just a sketch on the elven design language. Perhaps it could have been even more exaggerated.. Really into looking at this kind of surface complexity management now. Making mixture of different surface speaking the same language.