Milan 2016: product design students at Swiss university ÉCAL have collaborated with technology brand Punkt to make basic household electronics, such as a radio and a power plug, more intuitive (+ slideshow).
The ÉCAL x Punkt collection continues the Swiss brand's work to create stripped-back electronics by designers like Jasper Morrison, which offer an alternative to today's multi-functional products.
Terkel Skou Steffensen's Internet Radio has a circular touch screen surround by a speaker
ÉCAL tutor Augustin Scott de Martinville and the Punkt team asked students to rethink the basic objects that help people with their daily routines.
"The show is about technology but not technology that is overwhelming," ÉCAL director Alexis Georgacopoulos told Dezeen, "technology that stays in the shadows and also makes small comments about the way we live, like the internet radio and other non-obtrusive items." Jaehoon Jung's octagonal projector can be tilted to angle the projection
Terkel Skou Steffensen designed an internet radio with a circular touch screen, designed to make it fun and easy to navigate thousands of stations.

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An octagonal projector by Jaehoon Jung can be rotated so you can project videos onto the ceiling as well as the walls, while DongKyum Lim has created a clock that hangs in the corner of a room, enabling the user...