*아날로지 스마트폰 [ Richard Clarkson ] Rotary Mechanical Smartphone

어떻게 이런 디자인이 나올수 있을까?
똑같이 생긴 심플한 스마트폰 디자인에
식상한 유저에게 너무나도 기쁜 소식이 아닐 수 없다.
특히 빈티지, 아이텐티한 디자인을 원하는
유저라면 두손들고 환영할 제품이 나왔다.
어느샌가 익숙해진 디지털 세계의
제품들은 우리가 손으로 느껴야할
아날로지한 손맛을 잃어버리게 만들고 있다.
아직도 사람들이 스타택을
사랑하고 사용하는 것은 단순히 스타택의
 디자인이 좋아서가 아니라
손으로 만지고 느껴지는 손맛을
간직하고 느끼고 싶어하는 사람들의
근본적인 터치감성을 자극하기 때문이지 않을까?
몇천년동안 만들고 이루어진 아날로지의
감성은 그렇게 쉽게 버릴 수 없는 것이다.

가장 기본으로 돌아가서 근본적인 것부터
생각하면 모든 디자인의 해답은 나온다.
이와 같은 제품들은 머리로 느껴서 좋은 제품이 아니라
손으로 느껴서 좋은 제품이 좋은것이다.

reviewed by SJ

Designer Richard Clarkson has created a conceptual smartphone with a rotary dial.

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The Rotary Mechanical Smartphone combines a digital touch-screen on the front with interchangeable mechanical dials on the back.

The painted surface of the case will wear away in time to reveal the electroplated copper beneath.

Digital vs. Mechanical – Rotary Mechanical Smartphone is a concept designed by Richard Clarkson that combines and synthesizes digital technologies and physical mechanical systems in order to elicit more value in our everyday objects.

The rotary mechanical smartphone is based on the idea of incorporating more feeling and life into our everyday digital objects. In modern times these objects have come to define us, but who and what defines these objects? Are we happy with generic rectangles of a touchscreen or do we want something with more tangibility, something with more life, something with more aura?

I have looked at where industrial design has come from, and where it might be going to, and by doing so have tried to create an object that is true to both, a harmonious combination of mechanical parts and digital technologies.

Rotary mechanical is a question not only about the ever increasing ‘digital take-over’ of everything in our lives but also what is lost when this happens.

There are two interchangeable brass dials, a true rotary dial and a button dial, the act of changing these is inspired from changing the lenses on a camera.

The body is electroplated copper which is then painted and designed to improve aesthetically as is wears.

The design of the phone references both steampunk and minimalistic genres to combine and contrast the different forms and surface finishes.

from  dezeen