DUNNE & RABY

i recently watched gary hustwit's new(ish) film, objectified, which is a 90-minute documentary about industrial design. i would highly recommend it.

among the designers whom he interviewed for the film were dunne & raby, a pair of experimental designers based i london. their modus operandi is to use design as a means of intellectual exploration and discussion.

among the work of their discussed in the film was a series of hypothetical robots that they designed. one of the robots was an information storage unit. in order to access your information you would have to cradle the robot in your arms and stare into its electric eye for five minutes—the idea being that we don't exactly know the long-term effects of such a prolific cloud of information surrounding us at all times, so what if a technology existed that would require the user to have a "conversation" with it in order to achieve the desired result?

they also have a "product line" for people with irrational fears such as alien abduction and nuclear war.

anyway. i find their work to be interesting and worth at least a glance, so please—click here.