what are your industrial design favorites?

[Moonhead]

Porsche 356

 

[eddantes]

Porsche 356View attachment 123963

Wellll.... not quite... at least not in your photo

 

[Loathecliff]

Bristol 403. For superb build quality

 

[Wes]

xke makes a good parts runner while you're building a real sports car...

 

[Martin]

Porsche 718 RSK Spyder:

 

[Harmonie]

Beaulieu from the fifties

 

[Harmonie]

Nakamishi 630 pre-tuner

 

[Harmonie]

Tesla ... ?

1951

TESLA 308 U TALISMAN

 

[Harmonie]

Ahhh the psychedelic seventies and Orange colours ...


JVC NIVICO

 

[JeffS7444]

Toto Washlet with all the options.

 

[eddantes]

Well if we're gonna post johns...

 

[RayDunzl]

 

[Harmonie]

Dunhill
Not their famous pipes (though they merit to be here) but their lighters too !

As a kid, I liked to hear the "click" of the flap's closure.

 

[q3cpma]

Dunhill
Not their famous pipes (though they merit to be here) but their lighters too !

As a kid, I liked to hear the "click" of the flap's closure.

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Looks like it was "inspired" by S.T. Dupont to me.

 

[Harmonie]

Looks like it was "inspired" by S.T. Dupont to me.

certainly somewhere so, but it's a matter of fan club and those were better paired with the Dunhill pipes.

 

[JeffS7444]

Modern-day replica of 1967 2P3 radio housing, originally produced by "Shanghai Plastic Products Factory 3" (上海塑料制品三厂 ). The radio seems to be a real sentimental favorite of people who lived through the period of China's Cultural Revolution. Unlike the original which was sold as an empty housing, this one was built from a complete Tecsun kit as sold on Amazon. Quality and instructions are first-rate. It seems that some folks are a bit put-off by the relative modernity of Tecsun's circuit which includes amplifier ICs. But not me: In 1967, I was just a small kid living on the opposite side of the world, and far more interested in stories of flying elephants than building a worker's paradise. Compared to typical vintage pocket radio, audio seems more powerful and a lot less distorted.

I suspect that a decent translation of the characters above the rising sun logo might be "The East is Red".

I found these blog posts informative, but am no closer to knowing the significance of the "2P3" designation.
http://www.bh7lsw.cn/archives/12716
https://tingfm.com/detail/2353

 

[Helicopter]

Looks like it was "inspired" by S.T. Dupont to me.

It's 'duPont'... I had (a very pretty) one in my class at boarding school.

 

[tkr]

The design of Yamaha's classic line of medium sized separates, i.e. http://www.hifi-archiv.info/Yamaha/1996/a(3).jpg used to fascinate me when I was a teenager. The tray loading tape deck was something special and up till today I like this style, especially with All-in-one systems.

T+A with their M800 series took this approach even further, with the components including back panels to hide the cabling. Everything looked neat and tidy even when placing that little system in the middle of a room. Their design language has been rather constant for decades and still does not look outdated, which is quite a feat.

 

[Harmonie]

The design of Yamaha's classic line of medium sized separates, i.e. http://www.hifi-archiv.info/Yamaha/1996/a(3).jpg used to fascinate me when I was a teenager. The tray loading tape deck was something special and up till today I like this style, especially with All-in-one systems.

T+A with their M800 series took this approach even further, with the components including back panels to hide the cabling. Everything looked neat and tidy even when placing that little system in the middle of a room. Their design language has been rather constant for decades and still does not look outdated, which is quite a feat.

T+A reminds me rather Dieter Ram's, Braun designs ...

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

The ELAC Miracord turntables. Simple, reliable, nice looking.