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Flashlight for Upim

design: Andries van Onck, 1973



 
 
 
 
 
 
 

flaslight
The flashlight for Upim connects only when the housing is opened, avoiding inadverted action. It consists of four  automatically mounted injection molded ABS parts. The flashlight is designed for keeping in a cabinet or in a car: well protected, compact and always ready for use.
The anonymous parallelopid form, as a black box, (actually it comes in different colors) does not reveal its function until it is opened. This constitutes an example in industrial design of an enigma as a rhetoric figure. 
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   andries van onck


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