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- Blobject abstract "A blobject is a design product, often a household object, distinguished by smooth flowing curves, bright colors, and an absence of sharp edges. The word is generally held to be a portmanteau, a contraction of \"blob\" and \"object.\"The origin of the term is disputed, but it is often attributed to either the designer-author Steven Skov Holt or the designer Karim Rashid. Author and design journalist Phil Patton attributed the word to Holt in 1993 in Esquire magazine. Holt has defined a blobject as, most often, a colorful, mass-produced, plastic-based, emotionally engaging consumer product with a curvilinear, flowing shape. This fluid and curvaceous form is the blobject's most distinctive feature. Rashid, the contemporary designer who wrote the book I want to Change the World, was an early leader in creating blobjects and has become one of the most celebrated designers of his generation.Blobjects can also be found in most areas of contemporary visual culture. A blobject can be a typographic font (cf. Neville Brody), an animation (cf. Monica Peon), a piece of furniture (Marc Newson), an article of clothing (Rei Kawakubo), a motorcycle (GK Dynamics), a car (GEMCAR), a building (Future Systems), a painting (Rex Ray), a piece of sculpture (Hadeki Matsumoto), or ceramics work (Ken Price). Blobjects can be made of any material in any size or scale for the home, office, car, or outdoors.Common materials used in fabricating blobjects are plastic (especially polycarbonate, polypropylene, or polyethylene), metal, and rubber, with the aim being to give a more organic and animate feel. The blobject trend has largely been driven by advances in computer-aided design, information visualization, rapid prototyping, materials, and injection molding. These technologies have given designers the chance to use new shapes and to explore transparency and translucency without significant extra production costs.More recently, in 2004, author Bruce Sterling used the word in the title of his keynote speech at Siggraph. In his speech titled, \"When Blobjects Rule the Earth\", Sterling speculated on the future of graphic simulation when practical differences no longer exist between computer generated models and physically manufactured objects.".
- Blobject thumbnail IMac_Bondi_Blue.jpg?width=300.
- Blobject wikiPageExternalLink blobjects.htm.
- Blobject wikiPageExternalLink faculty.php.
- Blobject wikiPageExternalLink www.karimrashid.com.
- Blobject wikiPageExternalLink blobjects.
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- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Apple_Inc..
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Blobitecture.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Boing_Boing.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Bruce_Sterling.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Category:Consumer_goods.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Category:Technology_in_society.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Category:Words_coined_in_the_1990s.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Computer.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Computer-aided_design.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Esquire_(magazine).
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Final_good.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Future_Systems.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Gillette_Mach3.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Greg_Lynn.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink IMac_G3.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Information_visualization.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Injection_moulding.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Karim_Rashid.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Marc_Newson.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Mass_production.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Materials_science.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Metal.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Natural_rubber.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Neville_Brody.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Oral-B.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Plastic.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Polycarbonate.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Polyethylene.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Polypropylene.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Portmanteau.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Rapid_prototyping.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Rei_Kawakubo.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Rex_Ray.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Swatch.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Toothbrush.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Visual_culture.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink Volkswagen_Beetle.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink File:Blob_Birmingham.jpg.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink File:IMac_Bondi_Blue.jpg.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLink File:Volkswagen-NewBeetle.jpg.
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLinkText "Blobject".
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLinkText "blob".
- Blobject wikiPageWikiLinkText "blobject".
- Blobject wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Blobject subject Category:Consumer_goods.
- Blobject subject Category:Technology_in_society.
- Blobject subject Category:Words_coined_in_the_1990s.
- Blobject hypernym Product.
- Blobject type Software.
- Blobject type Good.
- Blobject comment "A blobject is a design product, often a household object, distinguished by smooth flowing curves, bright colors, and an absence of sharp edges. The word is generally held to be a portmanteau, a contraction of \"blob\" and \"object.\"The origin of the term is disputed, but it is often attributed to either the designer-author Steven Skov Holt or the designer Karim Rashid. Author and design journalist Phil Patton attributed the word to Holt in 1993 in Esquire magazine.".
- Blobject label "Blobject".
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- Blobject sameAs Q4927065.
- Blobject wasDerivedFrom Blobject?oldid=646848417.
- Blobject depiction IMac_Bondi_Blue.jpg.
- Blobject isPrimaryTopicOf Blobject.