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Here in Germany, Colani and his designs were often featured in magazine articles, and he definitely was a bit of a design celebrity. Even when I was still a kid

Here in Germany, Colani and his designs were often featured in magazine articles, and he definitely was a bit of a design celebrity. Even when I was still a kid, I realized that his stuff looked very cool and futuristic, but was usually extremely, almost comically unusable. Strangely, he was celebrated as an eccentric genius anyway.

johndoe0815 4y ago
The Vobis Colani series "Highscreen" PCs were some of the ugliest pieces of hardware you could buy IMHO :).
- rerdavies 4y ago
  Seems disappointingly innocuous to me. https://www.pcgamer.com/the-eight-ugliest-pc-gaming-cases-weve-ever-seen/ https://www.pcgamer.com/the-eight-ugliest-pc-gaming-cases-we...
- tcmb 4y ago
  For reference: Tower [1] and desktop [2] cases. [1] https://hozi.net/it/computer-historie/vobis-highscreen-colani-tower-486-dx-2-66/ https://hozi.net/it/computer-historie/vobis-highscreen-colan... [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Colani-pc.jpg https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Colani-pc.jpg IIRC, he presented a prototype that was much more radical, and a lot got lost in mass production. In the end it was a standard case with a few rounded edges.
  - Cockbrand 4y ago
    Well, a PC case that needs to accommodate quite a few different standardized drives that must be accessible from the outside isn't really an ideal case [no pun intended] for an extravagant design approach. Apple did a much better job at that with the iMac and G3/G4/G5 tower designs by hiding the drives behind flaps or custom faceplates.
- Gordonjcp 4y ago
  Honestly looking at the photos linked by tcmb, they're not even close to the ugliest PC cases you could buy.