Tom Dixon

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.

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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.

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Tom Dixon talks about his work, from starting as a welder to designing the world’s most expensive vibrator.

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Tom Dixon

London/United Kingdom

Tom Dixon OBE is a self-taught product designer, based in London.