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490 sats \ 26 comments \ @supratic 17 Aug Design

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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @lunanto 17 Aug

Levi's 501 jeans

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @supratic OP 18 Aug

I'd have never bet the 501 is a registered trademark and is more than a century old product! https://www.levistrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/History-of-Levis-501-Jeans.pdf

c1890: 501® is used to designate the famous copper-riveted waist overalls. We don’t know why this number was chosen.

c1927: Cone Mills develops the 10 oz. red selvage denim exclusively for the 501® jeans. The denim is woven in 29” wide looms.

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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @artdesignbySF 18 Aug

Def. not the best design. Clipper does it way better.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @supratic OP 18 Aug

You right, Clipper has been doing lighters from 1959, it's latest unique design came from 1972, one year earlier than Bic, by the genius of Andrés Sardá in Barcelona. It's the reusable, refillable and customizable lighter, sitting between the disposable Bic and the legendary collectable Zippo.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Zion 17 Aug

I knew my dad with his Pressing Iron in the early 90s and still see it up for sale on Amazon

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @supratic OP 18 Aug

Right, I was more looking for products made by a specific brand, but this is really an intergenerational one. Before electricity it was something like this

30 sats \ 4 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 18 Aug

The Fender Stratocaster

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @supratic OP 20 Aug

Has been the same since 1954? or do Fender made some changes aling time?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 20 Aug

Some refinements / variations but the basic design has been the same for more than 50 years. People still spend more for vintage reissues that are basically the same as in the 50s / 60s

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 20 Aug

This, but the Tele!

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 20 Aug

I've always been partial to the Strat but the Tele definitely counts as a timeless design as well

5 sats \ 3 replies \ @supratic OP 17 Aug

Another immutable design by Bic:

This pen has been the same for 70 years. Impressive product design or simply the consequence of good R&D?

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @SwapMarket 17 Aug

They did have to add a hole at the top of the cap in 1991

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @96c0b276a3 18 Aug

This is some obscure knowledge haha. You got more? And a newsletter?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwapMarket 18 Aug

This is a well-known fact. https://www.sciencealert.com/why-there-are-holes-in-tops-of-pen-caps-lids-bic

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @LibertasBR 19 Aug

This things for sure:

19 sats \ 1 reply \ @supratic OP 20 Aug

Thanks, feels like inventions than a product. Should have been more specific. Any info if these ideas have been patented or are under IP?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LibertasBR 20 Aug

I believe that among these, Velcro is a product that has become an invention and is widely copied, yet it is still a product. Clips, on the other hand, are inventions.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @030e0dca83 18 Aug

Sometimes people or things get older but never worse

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @supratic OP 18 Aug

Well, this beauty is not a product. However, I agree on your point! is maybe people the most durable product of Nature then?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 17 Aug

A hammer

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Akg10s3 17 Aug

I say that "bic" and its market analysts are very conservative. They analyze the profit numbers and also the expense figures that would be required to constantly change the image and design of their products, and they're happy with the profits generated by the current design. So that's why it has endured over time...

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @supratic OP 18 Aug

I agree it's a really conservative company, focus more on sales than design and innovations, offering just few products in their catalog, this explains why the lighter or the pen has never changed in the past decades. And now that I can compare it with CLIPPER #1084427, I think about all the plastic this company has been placing in the planet. I usually see these lighters and pens residuals on the beach... enduring over time.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s3 18 Aug

You're right... that plastic has been damaging the environment for years! I also think that's a bad thing!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 17 Aug

Pencils Forks Wire hangers

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @supratic OP 18 Aug

too generic... anything with a brand attached to it? extra sats if it has a patent attached to it.