Soft Electronics: Iconic Retro Design for Household Products in the 60s, 70s, and 80s - Hardcover

Jaro Gielens

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3967040402 ISBN 13: 9783967040401

Publisher: gestalten, 2022

Synopsis

The fascinating world of product design that emerged between the 1970s and 1990s symbolized the birth of a new age and human behavior. From coffee grinders to fondue sets to hairdryers, each home appliance was intended to help in the daily household routines--but they were also masterpieces of style. Jaro Gielens's personal collection is one of the world's largest selections of artifacts that pay homage to this iconic era of design.

Soft Electronics explores a nostalgic and unique set of products from a very distinct time for design. Each object possesses a sense of longevity, quality, and innovation--one that has been hard to match since manufacturing was moved overseas and planned obsolescence redefined our relationship with electronic goods.

About this title

About the Author

Born in 1971, Jaro Gielens is a Dutch collector of retro gadgets and electronic games. He also works as an interaction and web designer, and has been playing video games since 1981. His first book with gestalten, Electronic Plastic, explored handheld and tabletop devices from the 1970s and 80s.

From the Back Cover

The fascinating world of product design that emerged between the 1960s and 1980s symbolized the birth of a new age and human behavior. From coffee grinders to fondue sets to hairdryers, each home appliance was intended to help in the daily household routines-but they were also masterpieces of style. Based on Jaro Gielens's collection, one of the largest in the world, Soft Electronics explores a nostalgic and unique set of products from a very distinct time for design. Each object possesses a sense of longevity, quality, and innovation-one that has been hard to match since manufacturing was moved overseas and planned obsolescence
redefined our relationship with electronic goods. Soft Electronics pays homage to an iconic era of design.

Edition details

• Publisher: gestalten
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3967040402
• ISBN 13: 9783967040401
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Gestalten, Jaro Gielens