Form and Function

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The curators of creativity at IDEO must have liked my blog references as they welcomed me to tour their campus in Palo Alto yesterday.

I am drawn to this office environment… festooned with archaeological artifacts and structural pranks from fellow teammates. Pulley systems hold a sea of bicycles overhead (most of them bike to work).

To his right is the wood mock up of the PowerBook Duo dock with the motor that smoothly sucks the laptop into its socket (for zero insertion force docking). It still works after all these years.

His motto: “Bring a prototype to every meeting.”

14 responses to “Form and Function”

angry shock

Dec 23, 2004 at 9:10 pm

😯 !!!!!

*openning my eyes and mouth with childlike fascination*

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The Rocketeer

Dec 23, 2004 at 11:02 pm

Lots of cool stuff to identify there. You ought to have a contest to see who can identify the most stuff in a busy picture.

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jurvetson

Dec 24, 2004 at 1:24 am

Whoa! I got punk’d with post-it-notes! That tickles.

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angry shock

Dec 24, 2004 at 1:43 am

Holy post-its! Rokee, I wouldn´t like to be your fridge´s door! =P

…let me see if I can help to the cause… hihihi 😉

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angry shock

Dec 24, 2004 at 1:51 am

Hey What is a Pachinko? (left-bottom). Looks like a home-made pinball to me… |-)

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The Rocketeer

Dec 24, 2004 at 4:05 am

Pachinko is a cross between a slot machine and pinball machine, originating from Japan. You play it with hundreds of little steel balls instead of just a few of the larger ones.

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angry shock

Dec 24, 2004 at 5:46 am

oh!!! I´ve seen them I guess-. I am more a pinball person, tho. Do you play? Any favs? Mines are "The Phanton of the Opera" (1989+/-), "Terminator" (1992+/-) and "Get away" (1996+/-)

So, we saw almost the same there… must be something of the kind, maybe Jurvey can help if he knows about the one in the picture.

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TroyWorks

Dec 24, 2004 at 9:37 am

wow that is the coolest work environmetn/philsophy I’ve seen all month *ahem* especially considering my own.

You lead an amazing life, rich with experiences.

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The Rocketeer

Dec 24, 2004 at 3:04 pm

I have a "Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein" pinball machine in my house, Alieness. (from 1993, based on the movie) I’ll post some photos of it later.

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angry shock

Dec 24, 2004 at 4:44 pm

Oh My! If there was something left to your wonderful and beautiful new house… was a pinball machine… you ROCK, Rock! =D

I die to see those photos! You know my bro had one in his *flat* (yes, a 3 room flat).. it was Glottieb´s Cactus Jack´s… he had to sell it because the cactus were too noisy and espontanous, tho =(

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Trajan K

Apr 2, 2005 at 7:40 am

Looks like a modern scene from the movie "Needfull Things".

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valuable silk

Apr 5, 2005 at 4:28 am

spontaneous, Needful

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nevinspontious

Jan 11, 2007 at 7:28 pm

The EAMES philosophy lives on…
i love it

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jurvetson

Nov 16, 2009 at 11:52 pm

IDEO rocket toy attack video from today….

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