Great modeling and rendering skills! Congratulations! 
Those old electronics were functional yet featuring pure, minimalistic design language. The majority of modern electronics (and cars), however, are designed to look overly-complex for the sake of complexity. 
Those non-sense details also make the item in question more expensive to the end user, and quite difficult to clean.
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Indeed, especially cars nowadays I have a hard time reading the design, at least the majority of them and in particular all those ‘futuristic’ electrical cars.
IMHO good design is good design when it survives the test of time.
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Hi Gijs, very nice work!
I love the perspective used and the lighting is excellent, no “beauty shot” extravaganza but realistic studio shots.
I have a variation of the Krups mixer at home. If you need some more details I can make some pictures for you.
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Sweet, enjoy reading and watching the beautiful photographs. After posting these images I got contacted by the writer, which was a nice surprise. Still need to plan a visit to his warehouse. I was planning on adding a few more but haven’t found the time lately.
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So cool! In a world with more free time, I think it would be so fun and wonderful to model every product in the book and do a YouTube series on it…
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@Gijs Awesome work!
… an quite contagious - I also got the book, and “thanks” to my habit of collecting stuff have, already started a small collection.
We’re getting a 3d scanner at uni this semester - so I’m planning to digitize some of the models. I think the scans would make a great template for surfacing exercises! : )
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Hi everyone,
scans are ready! (at least the first batch)
The meshed files are between 30 and 50mb in size -
should I post them directly here in the Forum (in a separate thread?)
or would a link to google drive work better ?
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I think a separate thread is better, with links to the scans, since they’re quite big. I’m looking forward to see them!
You rock guy,
It would be amazing to access the scans.
Yeah, a shared Google folder it’s the simplest way.
Thanks for sharing this work.
I’d LOVE to play around with some of these - have you posted them yet?
not yet – but I’m working on it this minute…
I’ll probably post them later this evening or tomorrow
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It’s fun to see that the orange color is very close, from 3 different manufacturers!
Scans are online now:
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Die Modelle sehen sehr schön aus.
Die alten Produkte haben ein gute Designsprache
und Funktionalität.
Ich nutze immer noch das Rührgerät “Krups TopMix Plus” von meiner Oma. Es funktioniert einwandfrei. Das Gerät ist noch älter, als der “3MIX 4004”.
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Oh wow, bei mir gehn die 50€ Mixer meistens schon nach einem halben Jahr in die ewigen Jagdgründe ein. Ich habe mir jetzt mal einen teureren gekauft, und der scheint sehr solide, auch designmäßig. Mal schaun ob dieser es bis zu den Enkeln schafft. 
The majority of consumer electronics is designed with planned obsolescence in mind, this is why it fails in one specific aspect or another. Usually that’s either an intentional software bug that worsens the performance after a certain period of usage, or a bad quality switch or other mechanical part that inevitably gets broken.
(sorry a bit off topic…)
I came about this example of planned obsolescence last weekend:
it is the gear of a cheep paper shredder.
A small metal helix gear with only 3 teeth against a plastic 47 teeth gear.
The small gear looks more like a mill-bit, the surface quality like a rasp.
The poor plastic does not have any chance against this…
as soon as the shredder is blocked by to much paper - it s live is over.
(the shredder costs 40 Eur, their is a guy who s producing the gear as FDM-3d-print for 12 Eur + delivery, if you want a high quality polyamide sinter 3d Print (SLS), it is 26 Eur + delievery… until the next paper-jam … not worth repairing…)
This kind of engineering / design makes me super frustrating - and explains why we have to much waste.
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Exactly my point. Your example with the plastic gear described it perfectly. Big companies cry about global warming and saving the planet Earth, but they are the very definition of purposeful waste that damages the environment. This particular gear could have been made multiple times stronger and last for many more years, it only needs an optimized shape while keeping the volume and price exactly the same. It’s evident from the photos that the contact surface of the plastic gears could be twice as tall. Basically every other gear could be made thicker at the contact area to increase the lifespan of the device. Companies are well aware which parts of their products are supposed to fail most often, but they do nothing to prevent that, because it’s of their interest to produce products with planned obsolescence that will eventually force you to buy overly-expensive replacement parts or a brand new device.
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