design & emotion - Marco van Hout

Sony Walkman 30 years. Once it had people in awe, now what is left are strange looks…
July 1, 2009

When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? BBC NEWS Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week. This resulted in a hilarious short story…
Hoo-Ha Showcase for Multi-Sensory Experiences (July 28, Florence/Italy)
June 8, 2009

On behalf of my friend Thierry Lageat, I invite you to join us at EUROSYN’s Hoo-Ha Showcase in Florence this summer!
SusaGroup expands product line with LEM-emotions
June 8, 2009

The SusaGroup, an agency focused entirely on emotional experience and creating meaningful experiences, launched a new product that makes exploring and expressing emotions fun: stickers with their validated LEM-emotions.

Emotion comes full circle
Michael Rottmar (Founder and director at Miroco)

Michael Rottmar of Miroco in Germany, designed an interesting wall cabinet that focuses on eliciting an emotional reaction. In this short column he shares with us how the design of the cabinet came about.
Creating Emotional Impact Through Vision
Juliane Trummer (Research & Strategy Manager at Teague)

What has always fascinated me most about industrial design is its thematic complexity, touching on a broad range of fascinating topics that all relate to the human being, bringing together a wide range of problems and questions from different disciplines. Some of these disciplines are scientific and lend themselves to relative “objectiveness”. Other disciplines are difficult to quantify or are not quantifiable at all; they are abstract and relate back to basic questions about human existence such as identity & change, space & time, religion & spirituality, mind & matter.

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