Sebastian Campion of Guerilla Innovation recently interviewed Nicolas Roope: the artist, designer and CEO behind Pokia, which later became Hulger.
Touching on subjects like the idea behind the first art project which started it all, the name change, the recent Hulgerisation project... And why it's not just the ones who knew the fixed landline that take an intrest:
For me some of the resonance comes from the days when I had such phones at home. Nearly everyone I knew had the same, a rare technological ubiquity that will never be repeated, a moment when rich and poor shared the same object. But from experience it is also clear that younger generations still like them although for other reasons. 18 year olds have had mobiles around them most of their lives and so to them they're not new or different. They're often fascinated by what we do because it’s such a departure from what they've seen before
Read the entire interview here.
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