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Design,Function,Purpose,Right 1st time!!

30 Jul 10 - 09:24 PM (#2955483)
Subject: Design,Function,Purpose,Right 1st time!!
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker

Fender Telecaster


Vox AC30


Thatchers 1904 recipe Dry Traditional Cider


Female Body


Dawes Hybrid Road/trail Bicycles


..not necessarily in that order but...



what a beautiful world of creative human invention...!!!


what else can you mates contribute to this list
of the best of 'got it right 1st time and never bettered'
stuff we can't live without...????


30 Jul 10 - 09:31 PM (#2955485)
Subject: RE: Design,Function,Purpose,Right 1st time!!
From: olddude

Hot dogs on a grill
any kind of berry pie
pretty much any music I hear from the catters
Jacqui's shawls
Dean's artwork
much of the pottery I have seen here
some home brewed beer that I had (not a drinker but it was great stuff)


30 Jul 10 - 10:37 PM (#2955502)
Subject: RE: Design,Function,Purpose,Right 1st time!!
From: Amos

The classic churchkey--beer-punch n one end and cap-lifter on the other.

The horse, although it took a few iterations from hippocampus. Elefunks.

The D28.


A


30 Jul 10 - 10:40 PM (#2955503)
Subject: RE: Design,Function,Purpose,Right 1st time!!
From: Bobert

Okay...

"Rumble" by Link Wray (Google it up, punkster, it will blow yer mind...)

Fender's "Blues Junior" tube amp...

John Lowe's "Lowebow #82"... (Google up John Lowe...)

Ted Crocker's "Back Porch" Guitar... (Google up Ted Crocker, guitars)

Other stuff (non musical)...

Womenz... They're all lovely and most are easy on the eyes...

That about it... Most of that 1st tiem stuff seems to be musical... At least, to me...

Well, the old Volkswagens were purdt smart, too...

B~


31 Jul 10 - 04:45 AM (#2955578)
Subject: RE: Design,Function,Purpose,Right 1st time!!
From: Paul Burke

Only "first time" if you assume the designer didn't know about previous attempts.

Of the first two examples I know nothing, but:

Thatchers 1904 recipe Dry Traditional Cider
Cider has been made since time immoral.

Female Body
Four billion years of evolution. And it still doesn't always get it right :(

Dawes Hybrid Road/trail Bicycles
Only two hundred years of development, by some tens of thousands of manufacturers.

As Ike Neuburg said, "If we run a little faster, it is because we stand on the toes of giants".


31 Jul 10 - 04:54 AM (#2955580)
Subject: RE: Design,Function,Purpose,Right 1st time!!
From: Will Fly

Me.

(Gets coat...)


31 Jul 10 - 05:20 AM (#2955588)
Subject: RE: Design,Function,Purpose,Right 1st time!!
From: Dave Hanson

Scotch whisky and Taylors Landlord.

Dave H


31 Jul 10 - 11:53 AM (#2955734)
Subject: RE: Design,Function,Purpose,Right 1st time!!
From: Ebbie

fly swatter


31 Jul 10 - 01:05 PM (#2955772)
Subject: RE: Design,Function,Purpose,Right 1st time!!
From: Jack the Sailor

The "right the 1st time" part is a problem for me.

Where would the Tele be without the work of Les Paul?

Design, Function Purpose part of the thread is fun though.

How about The Zippo Lighter, The Skidoo, and the Saturn SL1?

I have the Saturn. It is an amazingly well built car which GM let slide into oblivion due to corporatism.

Female body? I donno. Tell that to a woman who has had cancer, or for that matter a C-section. Well designed, maybe, but far from flawless in design and purpose.