Hot Girls, Good Design
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
Finnish industrial designer Sebastian Jansson is no fool—he knows that models in provocative positions will get your work noticed. That's exactly what he did during a shoot for his furniture collection.
“A certain sense of preposterousness and tweaked perceptions are something I prefer to incorporate in the imagery documentation,” Jansson says. Call it preposterous or call it brilliant—either way, his work looks good. It looks even better when it's got a topless lady in the photo with it.
Tagged with: Design • Finland • Furniture • Sebastian Jansson
4 Comments
Lara Penin
June 21, 2012Are you serious? Are we supposed to find it funny/witty? I will call it plainly preposterous, pretentious and flat sexist.
Katherine Bennett
June 21, 2012Dear God, I thought we had dispensed with this sexist idiocy on all but auto parts calendars to be hung in mechanics’ workshops. Sigh. Let me repeat. When you put a human, especially a provocative human, in a photo with your product, it distracts from the design. We are hardwired to notice the human, even a fairly “tame” image of one, so a designer has to be careful. I am not likely to remember this designer’s work, or his name, but I AM very likely to remember this blog, and the Intelligencer that emailed me about it, as a shallow purveyor of non-interesting design content that regresses our ability to communicate what good design is REALLY about back to the 50s.
Complaining that your clients don’t understand what it is that you really do? Upset that people think you’re all about style and no substance?
Keep this up and that’s all they’ll think we are.
Shawn Diaz
June 22, 2012These are great. It’s not like there’s some black and white rule about ” putting a human, especially a provocative human, in a photo with your product”. Comparing these to babes on a hot rod in a garage is a giant leap. You two sound like the biggest prudes ever.
Ramon Vasquez
June 22, 2012People are design too.