As you may know, I am an avid reader of Yankodesign. I like the technology designs concepts that they come up with. Today, I liked the new CulArt(pronounced Cool Art) cellphone design by Seungchan Lee. The main theme of the phone is to incorporate both the retro aspect as well as the nature’s gifts. As you can see from the image above , the wood paneling represents the idea of trees. Also, the rocky textured surface at the back of the phone represents rock climbing. So these two aspects cover the nature aspect of the phone.

The retro aspect is covered with an external bluetooth keypad(see image below). The keypad has a bunch of knobs that are used to access the basic functions of the phone. This does bring out the retro factor but at a great cost since its not really convenient to use your phone through an external keypad but still it is a creative idea and I will give it that. Overall, I really liked the idea of mixing both the retro and nature’s perspective. Although I really like the design, I doubt it will ever be made nor would it be very successful.

Comment posted by omar
at 1/29/2008 6:09:59 AM

wow! very nice cellphone…thanks for the information…i will talk about it on my blog…

Comment posted by Nathaniel
at 2/2/2008 7:26:04 AM

It looks nice! And does incorporate both aspects. The only complaint is the color of the wood at the bottom of it. I think that should be a different color

Comment posted by modifoo
at 2/1/2008 2:11:06 PM

Reminds me of a watch from the 90s, that was made of wood.

Love the idea of having nature in my hands.

Comment posted by Search rapidshare
at 2/5/2008 4:21:46 PM

This is freaking sweet! Web 2.0 phone shall we say?