Nixie watch. – DesignApplause Design

Nixie watch.

Sep 4, 2011 | concept, Retro |

circa 2005, design by david forbes

opening the case by unscrewing the ribbed cover reveals the time setting buttons, the battery and the tubes.

inspiration circa 2002, jeff thomas watch

Design has always been a struggle or even a balance of new and old, designers look to the past for what has been done in order to have inspiration to design something different. In the case of the nixie watch old vacuum tube technology meets modern cool watch and the results are amazing. Lets just call it ‘retro-modern’ for now but no matter what you call it still might just be the coolest modern old watch on the market today.

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about randy shear

about Rand Shear

Rand Shear always had a deep passion towards design, sustainability and architecture; to him these items are synonymous and somewhat interchangeable. For years he has used social networking, not the kind we have today like Facebook-in the pre-internet mid-80s, he co-created ‘The Architecture Gallery’ a non for profit organization that took mail art networks and design themes to promote a global discussion and discourse though postcard images. To him design comes in all shapes and sizes if it is a Memphis tie or a Le Courbusier Print, in a broader sense we all live on an every changing planet and everything in our daily lives can be designed. As a futurist he’s always looking forward to ‘what can be’ and as a historian he looks back to the past to ‘what has been done before’. In both cases he believes in the power of good design and its effect on all of us in our daily lives.

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