Objectified Response: The Flip Phone
For my response to the 'Objectified' documentary, I decided to make a Motorola RAZR, a phone popular in the 2000s. I was inspired mostly by the phone discussed in the Japanese section of the documentary. I really liked its bevelled, cubed off design, made by Naoto Fukasawa. I also felt a wave of nostalgia when it cut through all the flip phones, and discussed them like they were cutting edge technology. It made me think about the old ‘culture’ around flip phones, and how they came in a wide variety of colours and tons of phone charms! Or when headphone jacks were used primarily for phone charms and not actual headphones.
I really liked all the analog and 70s-50s themed objects seen throughout the film, and it was super interesting to see how much designs have changed over the years. Like now, everything is so smooth and streamlined, as well as simplified. Back then, things were more ‘chunky’. I suppose this relates back to the documentary as I wanted to emulate the style of tech present within the film. It was probably my favourite era ‘aesthetics’ wise, rather than now where a lot of things are streamlined and the same. Tech generally had a very distinct shape to it, from Fukasawa’s cubic flip phone to the large cassette tapes that came in all sorts of sizes. Now things are in much more simplistic, ‘modern’ shapes, which I find kind of sad.
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