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Design Recycling II
They say that fashions always come back around. Thin ties, thick ties; hemlines up, hemlines down; thick-frame glasses, thin-frame glasses. So why shouldn’t old product designs cycle back around, too?
Phil Baker already pointed out the Centro/Speak-and-Spell similarity. Here’s another for the files:
Gesturetek’s GestPoint (2007), left, and Motorola’s original “Brick” cellular phone (1983)
I just asked: “So why shouldn’t old product designs cycle back around, too?” I think I’ve just answered that question.
(An excellent retrospective on cell phone design, including the brick, appears here.)
