Comments on: Creating a Solari Flip Clock for Free (kind of) http://www.wandco.com/8 A small personal design firm Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:12:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lewis Dickens http://www.wandco.com/8/comment-page-1#comment-1270 Lewis Dickens Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:42:31 +0000 http://www.wandco.com/?p=8#comment-1270 This is indeed a nice screensaver but unfortunately the creator did not look carefully enough. Gino Valle, who originally designed the Clock studied Architecture at Harvard in the 50's and returned to Italy where Joe Columbo and Ettore Sotsass and others were inventing some really delightful objects and setting a tone for what came to be called Italian Modern... a submovement within the Modern Movement which was full of delight and happiness, and joy and had all kinds of great colors and boldness. It remains one of the great thrusts of Modern. Now Gino made the Cifra 3 clock as a beautiful object of art, and if you look at it you will notice that the hours are bold and the minutes are standard. That added something to the hip look of it. Unfortunaely the designer here missed that. To keep in keeping with the Italian Movement, he should have given us the power of color choice. It is a fine work otherwise, but could be so much more fun. Look at the skin that I designed for the HP43 emulator for the iPod touch/iPhone. AL Software... There must be some joy! Bill This is indeed a nice screensaver but unfortunately the creator did not look carefully enough.

Gino Valle, who originally designed the Clock studied Architecture at Harvard in the 50’s and returned to Italy where Joe Columbo and Ettore Sotsass and others were inventing some really delightful objects and setting a tone for what came to be called Italian Modern… a submovement within the Modern Movement which was full of delight and happiness, and joy and had all kinds of great colors and boldness. It remains one of the great thrusts of Modern.

Now Gino made the Cifra 3 clock as a beautiful object of art, and if you look at it you will notice that the hours are bold and the minutes are standard. That added something to the hip look of it.

Unfortunaely the designer here missed that. To keep in keeping with the Italian Movement, he should have given us the power of color choice.

It is a fine work otherwise, but could be so much more fun.

Look at the skin that I designed for the HP43 emulator for the iPod touch/iPhone.
AL Software…

There must be some joy!

Bill

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