Back in January 1982, German designer Hartmut Esslinger met Steve Jobs. Part of their conversation went something like this:
SJ: "What do you think of Apple?"
HE: "Cool but bad design."
SJ: "What...? Why?"
HE: "The products are incredibly ugly."
Hartmut explained to Steve, who understood and accepted. Steve was impressed with Hartmut and brought him to help design at Apple. Hartmut had worked for Sony for eight years. While Sony had great products, they did not see the need to add a personal computer to their products. As Hartmut worked for Apple and others, he amassed great design concepts. His two books have many pictures of various design concepts. Many were for Apple that never developed into prototypes. A few were developed into prototypes but never produced and marketed.
I am curious, what design concepts do you want to work on, or are you currently working on as your tinker project? If you can, please attach a picture of the idea. If you are currently working on a tinker project based on one of Hartmut's designs and shared online, please share the link of your posting(s).
Let's build a discussion about many different cool design concepts! If you know an idea for any design concept, please express it!
Design and Tinker Forward!
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Now, that I WANT! 
