Book review: Geoff Hollington Industrial Design furniture
I heard about Geoff Hollington when reading a copy of Designing The 21st Century, and I loved this object he had designed called the Fit… For Life Fan, I didn’t have any idea how it worked because the illustration in the book was not that detailed, but I was very curious by its shape.
Above: Fit… For Life Fan, New Pacific Industrial, 2001.
The work featured in Geoff’s book is mainly office systems and furniture which I thought was quite dated for today standards, but mind you the book was published in 1990 so that is quite a long time ago and I imagine his work look very slick at the time.
Above: Piglet, Personal Computer Concept, 1990.
What I thought was really interesting was his concept design in 1990 called Piglet which was a personal computer. He didn’t really focus on internal technology but was more interested in mapping out a future typography for how the personal computer could look.
I thought the concept was very good, especially when the only companies back then doing anything innovative with personal computers was Apple and NeXT (Steve Jobs).
This book doesn’t give you a good example of his latest works and is more about his early projects and thinking, mind you if 80 retro is your thing then you’re in luck!