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of the vacuum in a very functionalist manner, but if

you look at the form of it,

it's really expressing that, it's expressing the

symbolism of function.

There's color introduced into it, and he's not a

frivolous person, so it's really there to articulate

the various components of the vacuum. Or you

could look at, in a more recent manifestation

of this kind of contextual approach, would be

something like the Roomba.

There the relationship to the vacuum is very

different. First of all there's no more human

interaction relationship, the relationship is to the

room it's cleaning.

I think it's even more interesting that the company

actually has kits available in the marketplace

through iCreate, and it's essentially the Roomba

vaccum cleaner kit that's made for hacking.

People are really wacky, they've created things like

Bionic Hamster, which is attaching

the play wheel or dome that the hamster uses as

the driving device for the Roomba,

so it's the ultimate revenge of the animal on the

vacuum cleaner.

How I think about it as a designer myself is that

design is the search for form,

what form should this object take.

And designers have asked that question, and used

different processes.

Hey, what about the forks for the bike?

Can you make a few inquiries?

Because l'd love to do the forks, I think

the forks would be really cool.

Well this is my little table of... one of my tables...

you know l've got a whole workshop downstairs

which is just full of sh*t. But these are just things

that I just find interesting,

and things I want to have around and look at.

Sometimes these are the materials

that l'm looking for an excuse to use, as opposed to

the other way around.

But things like Micarta, this is one of my favorite

materials, and it's actually made of linen,

so it's a bit like wood, actually, it feels like a living

material. And it's enormously heavy.

And these kind of weird meshes, how cool is that. I

have no idea what they use this for...

it's like this stainless steel... braided... stuff.

My career didn't start after art school, it started

when I made my first object

in my grandfather's garage. I remember my uncle

had said as soon as I could tell the time,

he'd give me a wristwatch. So I figured out how to

tell the time, and he gave me this wristwatch,

and I promptly pulled it to bits. I went out to my

grandfather's garage and found an old bit of

Plexiglas and started hacking away at this bit of

Plexiglas and drilling holes,

and I transplanted this movement from this

once-working watch into it.

That was my first....

...design, I guess.

I grew up in a generation... you know I can

remember when they landed on the moon.

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