Belkin has been producing some really nice products lately. This one is probably not one of my favorites and makes me wonder what else was entered in the category. I’m sure it works well, but for example, to make this product work WITHOUT screws or “heavy” double stick would have been a real trick and worth the Distinction award.
Their Power series is nice as well a lots of other products they produce.
The website is more fun than the bottles! You really need to check it out here. The flavor story is really smart as it implies feeding the basic building blocks of the body and the bottles in turn respond by allowing kids to create fun molecular structures.
This won a Design Distinction award. I’m not sure if this was presented as a whole with web communications or not, but this to me could have been best of category. Maybe they just judged just the bottle itself, but the entire story here makes for a great “consumer product”.
PS. Y Water claims to be Organic, but funny that you can’t easily find the ingredients of Y Water on the website. If it’s there, its not that easy to find. Some post a link if you can find it.
Another fuseproject product, that wasn’t as impressive, yet an award winner.
Overall this one doesn’t do a lot for me…nice screen saver though and clean, utilitarian implementation of the hinge mechanism.
Yet another exercise in restraint. The side view is beautiful. I’m getting a little tired of white and aluminum. Sorry for such a mundane and banal comment but won’t white keys get dirty and lose the pristine look after a while?
This is a nice tweener positioned product statement right between the standard bike helmet aesthetic (zoomy fast) and the “I’m a rebel” military like snowboard helmets. The cool graphic lines seem to be missing on the production version. Oh well.
Would I wear it? Probably not as i don’t like fixed ear covers. I wanna have the flexibility of having ear protection or not.
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Something bugged me about this design…it looks like the designers made an attempt to make plastic “feel” more like something soft…maybe it was the fake printed stitching or the mini bill (both which i thought were cool). Or maybe it was seeing the NYC Helmet towards the end of the review. Oh well, I still feel like its successful.
The 54th Annual Design Review is out and I thought it might be interesting to do 1 minute crits of some of the products. Why 1 minute? Well that’s about all the time I have to spend on each crit and based on the fact that your average consumer spends about 2.3 seconds (Eyetrack III) on an image in the web, I thought it would be interesting to present the knee-jerk reaction/review of the winners.