“Industrial Facility”
What is good design?
Various design awards have their own answers; a product must be original, it must be aesthetically appealing, or it must be useful for consumers. Marketing researchers have collected various factors that contributes to the newness, beauty or usefulness of a product.
Interestingly however, most awards and research papers have focused on the product itself. Product usage context or the “outer space of the product” has attracted little attention.
I found an example which shows that the outer space of a product matters. Designers from Industrial Facility, a UK design studio, design a Bath Radio for Muji. It is a radio and looks like a set of shampoo and rinse. This example shows that when the form of a product matches the outer space of the product, consumers will value the product more.
