TELEPHONE FOR ENORME

Sottsass-designed consumer phone

IDEO engineers collaborated with renowned designer and architect Ettore Sottsass to achieve this synthesis of Italian design and Silicon Valley technology. Manufactured in Hong Kong, the phone features classic functionality—redial button, tone/pulse switch, and ten-number memory.

Part of the permanent collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Enorme Telephone received international attention including a cover page photo in the German magazine, Form.

Project date: 1987