Tuesday 27 January 2004 — This is close to 21 years old. Be careful.
Dave B. sends along news from Tokyo of the Nissan Cube. Dave is disturbed by the asymetric rear design. I’m disturbed by the thinking behind the design:
The design team’s four key themes of “naughty, relaxing, compact and agile” are embodied in the design.
Naughty?
In addition, care was taken to achieve a distinct car-like stance that fosters feelings of lasting attachment.
and
The interior design exudes a sensation of relaxing in one’s own room, sitting on a comfortable sofa and surrounded by favorite pieces of furniture and audio equipment.
It’s a car.
Comments
I am sure that it gets a kabillion miles to the gallon too. Or at least you only have to wind the rubber band once a day
Have you ever seen an old photo of yourself and been embarrassed at the way you looked? Did we actually dress like that? We did. And we had no idea how silly we looked. It's the nature of fashion to be invisible, in the same way the movement of the earth is invisible to all of us riding on it.
Conversely, the Nissan Cube may look like vomit on wheels to us now but if enough of these boxy things surround us, we'll quickly stop noticing.
--bob
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