Patrik Palovaara

Microwave oven - Why shouldn’t we make microwave ovens more beautiful and pleasing instead of making them as complements to the rest of the kitchen? This MWO was created for a compact living and to appeal to a young user group who are aware of brands, trends and style. The idea is to take an ordinary dinner plate put together with a standard size MWO and then peal off the rest. The result is a small, but spacious MWO. This concept was in 1999 later adopted as a new compact MWO for Whirlpool. The Maximo and the Maxi advanced series have been very well received on the European market and has rapidly become one of Whirlpools best sellers.

Audi 4 - Ruff sketch, approx. 20 min

Viewphones Ericsson - Imagine that you´re sitting on the beach and watching the waves roll into the shore, while you hear the sound of this, but really you´re in the office........ In today´s stressed information society is it hard to find environments where noise and other information do not disturb. This overflow of information is contributing to stress and there is a great need for relaxing environments.The idea is that you choose what kind of information you want, and the viewphones shield off the rest, and you are only receptable for that information you want to reach you. With sound, music and images creating an alternative environment that stimulates relaxation in an entertaining way, creating a “room in the room”. With the product comes a personal web page on the internet that is working like a library, where you store all your information. You connect to the webpage via bluetooth or the third generation GSM-technology. This makes it possible to listen to sound, music and even watch movies in real-time without carrying the computer hardware with you.

Bluetooth headset - This concept was created for an OEM headset module platform for Bluetooth chip made by Teleca. The whole process from idea to concept was generated in just 1 week.

Sony Ericsson MCA-10 - The MCA-10 was the first step in the process of integrating the camera into the cellular phone. Oscar as the project was called at Ericsson was an accessory device, a so called a dummy that is attached to the old flagship T-68 model phone. The formal approach was to adopt design features like the wave lines that were a characteristic trait on the previous models.