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Charts Showing the Evolution of Product Design Form Factors, Continued

Remember Raymond Loewy’s illustrative chart showing the evolution of form factors over the decades? Inspired by this, NeoMam studios created their own version in a promotional for SavingSpot. They’ve overlapped categories with Loewy with cars and telephones but went more product-design-based with home stereos, TVs, vacuum cleaners, fans, headphones and sneakers. Take a look:

Seeing the timeline extended into the 2010s reminds us of just how far recent form factor evolution has gone. From the 2000s on, the products bear incredibly little resemblance to their forebears. It will be interesting to see these charts updated in another 50 years.