Comments on: Emotional design

By: Moira White

Moira White — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:15:42 +0000

I would like to know where I can purchase the dancing salt and pepper shakers (Alternative 2) It would make a really unusual birthday present for my girlfriend who ballroom dances.

By: le franc

le franc — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:04:04 +0000

Can i get the price for the salt & pepper shaker and a sample if it possible.

Thanks

By: Kristin

Kristin — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:18:19 +0000

But it’s exactly the function I get emotional about when it comes to my oil and vinegar dispenser set :) How easy it is to carry by the handle between two fingers – while still being able to carry a plate of pasta in the very same hand. And the way the dressing tops are designed to let me pour the oil perfectly onto the food.

I guess my set would be even more perfect if it contained salt and pepper mills for the fresh feeling, rather than traditional salt and pepper shakers. But that would probably mess up the clean round shape that the four containers make up… Oh well. I can’t have it all, I guess!

Hm… I thought images were allowed. They were before anyway. I’ll check it out!

By: Eirik

Eirik — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:34:16 +0000

Ah.. images are not allowed in your comments Kristin..

http://www.chefscatalog.com/img/products/285×285/24290_285.jpg

By: Eirik

Eirik — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:33:45 +0000

Personally I like this idea, but with a twist:
“Emotional design” does hot have to be an artifact designed/shaped to to provoke feelings directly by eye/ear/touch, but by function.

A salt and pepper mill has a clearly defined function: to grind and spread salt and pepper from chunk/seed into small appetizing pieces. By doing that cleverly, effectively, efficiently, without too much fuzz – it makes me feel good. Is that emotional design? Is ‘good design’ good if I realize how wonderful it is? If so- aren’t all good designs emotional?

I think the picture underneath would be my preference: