Taiwan designs
Evan at Engadget wrote up the Blowfly last week, which won third at the 2005 Taiwan International Design Competition — but there’s a ton of other really beautiful objects over at their site that are completely worth your time in checking out. Clockwise from the upper left is the Unity Phone by Jonas Bylund, Andreas Enqvist, and Bjorn Ogren (Sweden); Watch in TRAN by Abhishek Sahu (India); Minder by Huang Shao-wei (Taiwan); and Frame, by Kil Ki Narm (Korea). You know, I’ll be realistic: it costs a more to hire good designers, and I can only imagine what a pain it must be to properly integrate them with engineering, marketing, and production teams. But you know what? There’s a reason the RAZR, by all accounts a very crappy phone, moves more units than most any other phone out there, especially those similarly priced models (and it ain’t the Moto brand, let me tell you).