"Driven by the escalating power (and decreasing cost) of hardware and software advances in prototyping and manufacturing abilities, as well as new materials technologies, blobjects (a contraction of 'blobby objects') have become feasible at every scale from the tiny techno-blobject to skyscraper blobitecture. Beginning in 1990 and running through the present, the exhibition includes both familiar faces such as the iMac computer and the Nike Triax watch as well as entirely new visions for what our present or near-future could be. Part of this foray into the future involves a collection of work that goes 'beyond' the upbeat, friendly blobject toward a design language reflective of the darker post-9/11 mood." (Via Beyond the Beyond.)
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