ABS, PET, industrial foot switch,
and electronics
4" (10.1 cm) high,
3 3/4" (9.4 cm) diam.
Tinker London, UK
The designer and writer Russell Davies
was preparing for Lift10, a conference
in Geneva about emerging technologies,
and wanted a way to emphasize the
paradox of the rudimentary “faceless”
nature of most input mechanisms—
buttons, levers, switches—even as
the devices they serve are “constantly
demanding our attention” with their
screens and their interfaces. The
red button created for Davies by
Tinker London was an obvious way
of illustrating this point: he pressed
it, even slammed it with his hand
to advance the slides during his
presentation.
