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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 11
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 11

by Mark Frauenfelder
August 2007
Intermediate to advanced
190 pages
7h 38m
English
Make: Community
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Hands On

ROUTER AESTHETICS

NOW THAT “DIGITAL CARPENTRY” HAS COME TO EXIST, HOW DO YOU MAKE IT AUTHENTIC?

By Bruce Sterling

THE “BLOBJECT” WAS THE DESIGN darling of the 1990s. Blob-shaped objects pushed the limits of what was technically possible: they married the fluidity of the new computer design to the amorphous qualities of high-performance plastic.

So everything from cellphones to major museums ached to be bulgy, bouncy, ripply, and radically curvilinear. The true joy of blobjects is that they’re ergonomic — people are blobjects too, so when our intimate possessions become more forgiving and finger-friendly, we feel more at ease with them.

The 1990s loved blobjects in much the way that the 1930s loved streamlining: for many good and sensible ...

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