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Charts Showing the Evolution of Product Design Form Factors, Continued

Cars, stereos, telephones, headphones, fans, sneakers, vacuum cleaners, TVs

By Rain Noe - October 24, 2018

in Object Culture

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Remember Raymond Loewy's illustrative chart showing the evolution of form factors over the decades? Inspired by this, NeoMam studios created their own version in a promotional for SavingSpot. They've overlapped categories with Loewy with cars and telephones but went more product-design-based with home stereos, TVs, vacuum cleaners, fans, headphones and sneakers. Take a look:

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Seeing the timeline extended into the 2010s reminds us of just how far recent form factor evolution has gone. From the 2000s on, the products bear incredibly little resemblance to their forebears. It will be interesting to see these charts updated in another 50 years.

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6 years ago

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It's interesting but I feel like they try to push a message too much, like the bathing suit and the smart electronics. It might also just be the result of the oversimplification of the exercise, like the headphones; while it's true that there's a segment of the market that went for smaller ear buds until they're almost invisible, it's not entirely accurate since we still have very large headphones. I don't know where I'm going with this, someone stop me

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milind chitale

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Thanks for such a lovely chart group demonstrating the design changes over the era of early to late 21st century that define our way of life now.

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