Posted by Sally
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CITIZEN:Citizen is constantly questioning the value of, and our relationship to, objects. In the vein of commenting on mass culture and mass consumerism, Tobias Wong's latest creation, exclusively for CITIZEN:Citizen has just come out.
The matte black phone, titled ccPhone, is limited to an edition of 50. The ccPhone is constructed from an iPhone. This phone is jet black and its matte surface gives a sense of awe.
The ccPhone comes with a curated series of information. Artwork for the screen, video, a selection of music and, possibly the most intriguing of all, CITIZEN:Citizen's personal address book in v-cards, which will be updated twice a year.
Take a look at a video of Philip Wood, founder and creative director of CITIZEN:Citizen explaining what makes this phone so special:
Philip Wood explains the Tobias Wong iPhone
More pictures (including a regular iPhone next to Wong's) after the jump! SMK
Barely visible authentication.
Mine doesn't look as special anymore...
I want the Blackberry version!
In reality the original iphone is by far a nicer looking object, not to mention $1600 cheaper!
Yes, that's quite a bit uglier than the original...but, I guess exclusivity isn't about actual design is it?
Isn't it a bit early to call the iPhone a "design classic"?
yuck, i think some of your readers have gone blind. the original iphone is so unimaginatively designed (physically, anyway) that i'm surprised compaq computers didn't make that thing. for all the incredible technology it contains within, apple sure did throw it in the ugliest case it could.
If the iPhone is unimaginative, what would make it imaginative?
Painting it black apparently.
http://www.colorwarepc.com/products/select_iPhone.aspx
Anyone know where to find one of those sharp BLACK iPod Docks as shown in the 2nd to last photo?
Here, you can just buy the back in matte black..
http://cnn.cn/shop/apple-iphone-c-256_374.html
'He's dismantled it, errrrrmmmmm, re-coloured the WHOLE of the outside and put it back together again'
Absolute classic. Unlike this 'design'. I do hope this is a spoof, like the fact that Tobias Wong didn't turn up for that recent talk on his work and sent someone else. Wow, alternative. If this is for real, I think he's running out of ideas.
Au contraire Gary, check out today's latest post. (http://tinyurl.com/39b4m8)
Design classic? Already? Don't you think thats a tad dramatic? And repainting the shell hardly seems buzz worthy.