My Soft Office

My Soft Office by Hella Jongerius

This is a prime example of the kind of designs that make me stop and think..

I saw this piece in New York last year; to me its a very visual representations of the mind set of society. We all waste our lives away in from of the latest LCD/LED screens and this product is a true reflection of the breakdown in societal family values. What happened to the "all sit down around the table" dinners of yester-year? They're now something you can reconstitute with water or micro wave the life out of because family values have broken down and people spend every waking minute over working themselves and where are we eating them? In isolation around the technologies which we find our life completely and utterly consumed by.

It may be the case that the intention for this product was to be functional and meet the demands of modern lifestyles, but it's the provoking visual appearance of what that need it that makes me recoil in horror. I would like to think it has been designed to exaggerate what we've become..