Other projects update

Posted by Rob Walker on August 14, 2009
Posted Under: Products,rw,The Designed Life,Things/Thinking

I mentioned a while back that I was cataloging all my collected images of counterfunctional watches in one place. That’s just about done. See: Counterfunctionality: A Gallery. I’ll add new ones as they come along, but I’m pretty sure this is everything I’d stockpiled. It’s pretty impressive if you ask me. (But if you ask me, what would you expect me to say?)

I’m still not sure if I should expand the Gallery to include non-watch examples of counterfunctionality, or just stick to the one product category. This was all inspired, you may recall, by this Consumed.

And meanwhile, Things That Look Like Other Things will continue to be updated daily, for a good while at least. I still haven’t worked off my inventory on that one, and new examples seem to pop up every day.

This too is a spinoff of an earlier Consumed column.

That is all. Have a nice weekend.

Further diversion may be found at MKTG Tumblr, and the Consumed Facebook page.

Reader Comments

Do you have any counter-functional watches that look like other things? I’m picturing Rob contemplating a wall-sized Venn diagram at the Walker compound with a big circle for the CF watches and another for the TTLLOT with a slight overlap.

Written By Rick Liebling on August 14th, 2009 @ 7:03 pm

Dude, it is impossible to satisfy you!

Written By Rob Walker on August 14th, 2009 @ 7:12 pm

Keep it up! Looking forward to starting this semester with Buying In.

Written By Dr. Horowitz on August 14th, 2009 @ 9:45 pm

Here’s a link to a collection of Rolex ads. Maybe you’ve come across it. I actually purchased the social media watch you posted. It’s a great conversation piece!

http://forums.timezone.com/index.php?t=tree&goto=1351573&rid=0

Written By Gladys Santiago on August 15th, 2009 @ 12:19 am