http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/why-my-coffee-machine-is-so-sexy docteur es sciences techniques (EPFL) Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:49:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/why-my-coffee-machine-is-so-sexy#comment-5838 BL Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:37:16 +0000 http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/?p=12#comment-5838 Great article - spot on on the "coolness factor" of the La Pavoni! Great article – spot on on the “coolness factor” of the La Pavoni!

]]> http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/why-my-coffee-machine-is-so-sexy#comment-9 stalker Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:54:50 +0000 http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/?p=12#comment-9 Well spotted! They won't let me have another coffee machine. Well spotted! They won’t let me have another coffee machine.

]]> http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/why-my-coffee-machine-is-so-sexy#comment-8 Some random web guy with an IP Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:49:21 +0000 http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/?p=12#comment-8 Espresso, espresso... not “expresso”. Don’t wanna piss off the Italians, y’know? Espresso, espresso… not “expresso”. Don’t wanna piss off the Italians, y’know?

]]> http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/why-my-coffee-machine-is-so-sexy#comment-5 Ruth Stalker-Firth » Blog Archive » Using patterns to shape our world Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:33:45 +0000 http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/?p=12#comment-5 [...] Not only does a strong branded archetype work. We also are attracted to artefacts and people who are asethetically pleasing. The golden ratio is a pattern which appears in nature and has been used in art and design such as the Stradivarius and the iPod. We are naturally attracted to beautiful things. The most beautiful people have symmetrical faces and the most average facial features, with average being the arithmetric mean of form, size and position of these facial features. We are attracted to simple, average patterns, and in artefacts we find that the simpler its functionality, the more beautiful it is (like my La Pavoni). In others words, form follows function, a phrase which, in itself, encapsulates a design pattern. [...] [...] Not only does a strong branded archetype work. We also are attracted to artefacts and people who are asethetically pleasing. The golden ratio is a pattern which appears in nature and has been used in art and design such as the Stradivarius and the iPod. We are naturally attracted to beautiful things. The most beautiful people have symmetrical faces and the most average facial features, with average being the arithmetric mean of form, size and position of these facial features. We are attracted to simple, average patterns, and in artefacts we find that the simpler its functionality, the more beautiful it is (like my La Pavoni). In others words, form follows function, a phrase which, in itself, encapsulates a design pattern. [...]

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