Great Designs : Functional, Emotions and Why I Love Richard Sapper’s Designs

I am a huge follower of Richard Sapper’s product design. Myself, I am a proud owner of IBM Thinkpad and a Lamy Dialog 1.

Both exhibit very clean lines and are well built as well.

Lenovo, created a video featuring Richard Sapper for the launch of their X300 series. And I think, Richard Sapper say it very nicely on product designs.

You need it to be functional (else it will not serve its purpose) and you need it to connect to the user (Emotional).

We can learn a lot here and apply it to the design of our products.

Here’s the video:

This entry was written by yeksoon, posted on February 28, 2008 at 2:18 pm, filed under Design. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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  1. By Selling Wheels » Simplicity on March 26, 2008 at 5:29 pm

    [...] have previously touch on great designs by Richard Sapper.  BusinessWeek also has an article, Fifty Years at the Drawing Board, on Richard Sapper as well . [...]

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