The Braun Lectron System

*There are those who think that industrial design is merely decorative rather than technologically visionary, but check this out. An instructive kids toy from the mid-1960s

that's all about today's mix-and-mash-up, componentized, maker-style electronics.

*If you know about Dieter Rams, you know there was no more mainstream design figure than that guy. Rams was not any kind of fringe visionary, but a very solid, commercially successful designer of consumer electrical devices like shavers and ...