Calculator Design by Alexander Hulme

CALCULATOR
Alexander Hulme has designed a pocket calculator with a cut-and-paste style memory. Inspired by people scribbling numbers on scraps of paper, it features two extra LCD screens that are used as buttons to store figures.
It also features an in-line display, with the ability to go back and forwards to check and edit calculations.
The project uses several LCD screens as buttons giving an interaction closer to a webpage than a traditional consumer product.
In many ways the calculator is a bit of a forgotten object. Although there are a many designs out there, very few look at more than the exterior casing.
As a result, the pocket calculator hasn’t really changed functionally in over 40 years.
By trying to understand an object like this as part of a system (In this case, one working out sums), it’s shortcomings quite quickly become apparent.
Problems like hiding away numbers you really need to see or not being able to go back and change things.
Simple problems that somehow have never been addressed, mainly because the existing archetype is so intrenched.
ALEXANDER HULME
Alexander Hulme is a London based designer with passion for combining conceptual thinking with industrial objects.
Since graduating from the Royal College of Art he has established his own studio in East London where he pursues a combination of his own projects and commissions.
SUNBURY WORKSHOPS OPEN STUDIOS
At the North end of Swanfield Street in the heart of Shoreditch in East London lies a jewel in the crown of London’s young creative sector. This small row of Victorian workshops is home to a diverse range of studios practising a scope of disciplines ranging from furniture and product design to architecture, interactive design and illustration. During the London Design Festival 2010 Sunbury Workshops, lead by a host of graduates form London’s Royal College of Art, will open its doors as a selection of the inhabitants host open studios events and reveal new collections, hidden processes, and a working environment that truly represents the young creative flair of the London’s up and coming East-end.

CALCULADORA

Alexander Hulme ha diseñado una calculadora de bolsillo con memoria al estilo de cortar y pegar. Inspirado por los números de garabatos en trozos de papel, que cuenta con dos pantallas LCD extra que se utilizan como botones para almacenar datos.

También cuenta con una pantalla en línea, con la posibilidad de volver atrás y hacia delante para verificación y editar cálculos.

El proyecto utiliza varias pantallas de LCD como botones de dar una interacción más estrecha a una página web que un producto de consumo tradicional.

En muchos sentidos, la calculadora es un poco un objeto olvidado. Aunque hay muchos diseños por ahí…

Como resultado, la calculadora de bolsillo no ha cambiado realmente en su aspecto funcional en más de 40 años.

ALEXANDER HULME

Alexander Hulme es un diseñador con sede en Londres con la combinación de pasión por el pensamiento conceptual de objetos industriales.

Desde que se graduó de la universidad real del arte que ha establecido su propio estudio en el este de Londres, donde se lleva a cabo una combinación de sus propios proyectos y comisiones.