Saturday 10 May 2008

Haptic: Awakening the five senses

In this exhibition, objects were designed such that the primary target was sense of touch. The product designer in this case is Naoto Fukasawa and his design is called Juice Skin.His initial idea was to design a rectangular juice package with hairs similar to those of peach. "That idea developed into ...kiwi ... banana...soy milk paper package...", he states.






The exhibition is really enlightening, entertaining and straight to the point. I like the idea of a juice that relates directly to the fruit. But of course, they might not be sustainable, but theay are better than glass bottles (environmentally) and they would help to close the gap between languages of this world, where every country thrives to grab tourists' attention. Imagine year 2050, you walk into a shop... in a foreign country, you are probably aged 90 or somewhere and cant read properly, then you see a banana-like-package, it would be easy to just grab the box and pay at the counter before drnking your juice.









Even the display and the way they are arranged is quite effective and eye-catching. The wires bordering the perimeter of the table keep viewers away from touching this amazingly beautiful designs.

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