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A Blobject
is most often a colorful, mass-produced, plastic-based, emotionally engaging consumer product with a curvilinear, flowing shape. This fluid and curvaceous form is the blobject's most distinctive feature. The word is a contraction or portmanteau of "blobby" and "object" coined by design critic and educator Steven Skov Holt in the early 1990s. Author and design journalist Phil Patton attributed the word to Holt in 1993 in Esquire magazine.
Examples of blobjects:
Apple Inc. iMac G3 computer
Volkswagen Beetle
Gillette Mach3 razor
Oral-B toothbrush
Swatch Twinphone
GEMCAR
Examples of blobjects:
Apple Inc. iMac G3 computer
Volkswagen Beetle
Gillette Mach3 razor
Oral-B toothbrush
Swatch Twinphone
GEMCAR
Stand on Zanzibar
A lengthy book, it was innovative within its genre for mixing narrative with entire chapters dedicated to providing background information and world building, creating a sprawling narrative that presents a complex and multi-faceted view of the story's future world. Such information-rich chapters were often constructed from many short paragraphs, sentences, or fragments thereof - pulled from sources such as slogans, snatches of conversation, advertising text, songs, extracts from newspapers and books, and other cultural detritus. The result is reminiscent of the concept of information overload.
Monday
Tender Buttons
is the title of a 1914 book by Gertrude Stein consisting of word clusters chosen for their prosody, juxtaposed for the purpose of subverting commonplace dictionary meanings which Stein believed had largely lost their expressive force and ability to communicate. The words were re-defined using both their etymology and analysis of syllables by themselves
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