
Product Design/2006/41 min/Reel № 06.001
ByTom Dixon
Tom Dixon on the world’s most expensive vibrator
Entrenching Itself on the International Design Calendar/Recorded 2006
A close reading, kept within reach.
Tom Dixon takes product design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in United Kingdom in 2006, the conversation is grounded in Tom's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
Tom Dixon talks about his work, from starting as a welder to designing the world’s most expensive vibrator.

About the speaker
Tom Dixon
London/United Kingdom
Tom Dixon OBE is a self-taught product designer, based in London.
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