If you’re a fan of Dieter Rams, you’ll dig this Dieter Fan.
The Dieter Fan was designed by Nathan Yong, as an homage to the work of Dieter Rams.
Yong made this for Finnish design manufacturer Skanno, when he was still working with Air Design Group, a Singapore based industrial design consultancy firm.
Fans, which are common objects in Singapore, are mostly overly designed. Yong says:
I believe in stripping design language as much as possible, and make design easy to understood by each user.
I believe in that too.
Dyson’s Air Multiplier is the world’s first fan without blades, and really blew me away (get it? huhuh).
Air is taken in through the openings in the foot, and is amplified before it is squeezed through a 1.3mm aperture around the ring. Dyson promises a more powerful and more steady airflow as a result.
Make sure you also check out the Air Multiplier’s great press kit, giving you ‘twenty uses for the old buffeting blade’.
Photography courtesy of Gizmodo.