http://www.joeyroth.com/why-i-love-charcoal-toothpaste Joey Roth Industrial Designer Product Designer Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:50:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.joeyroth.com/why-i-love-charcoal-toothpaste#comment-22785 Sun, 04 May 2008 04:27:09 +0000 http://www.joeyroth.com/why-i-love-charcoal-toothpaste#comment-22785 Can I go to Korea Town and by charcol toothpaste or do I have to order it... Thanks for your blog GloZell Can I go to Korea Town and by charcol toothpaste or do I have to order it…
Thanks for your blog
GloZell

]]> http://www.joeyroth.com/why-i-love-charcoal-toothpaste#comment-12009 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:31:19 +0000 http://www.joeyroth.com/why-i-love-charcoal-toothpaste#comment-12009 [...] Receiving an object as a gift rather than buying it for yourself drastically changes the object’s meaning. As I wrote in my post about charcoal toothpaste, everyday products are sponges for meaning. A gift comes with a built-in story, a communication about your relationship to the giver that will color every interaction you have with the object. Like every product, the more practical the gift, the more you’ll consider its function, rather than its underlying story. That might be why money is rarely given as a gift, except to children - it’s so practical that it leaves no room for this communicative kind of narrative. [...] […] Receiving an object as a gift rather than buying it for yourself drastically changes the object’s meaning. As I wrote in my post about charcoal toothpaste, everyday products are sponges for meaning. A gift comes with a built-in story, a communication about your relationship to the giver that will color every interaction you have with the object. Like every product, the more practical the gift, the more you’ll consider its function, rather than its underlying story. That might be why money is rarely given as a gift, except to children - it’s so practical that it leaves no room for this communicative kind of narrative. […]

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]]> http://www.joeyroth.com/why-i-love-charcoal-toothpaste#comment-10644 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:06:48 +0000 http://www.joeyroth.com/why-i-love-charcoal-toothpaste#comment-10644 [...] Here’s a quote from his blog that I really liked: “Narrative is like a codec for storing and playing back memories, and people seek opportunities to build small stories in their lives. People judge products that are unremarkably easy to acquire on how well the thing works, rather than on a story they’ve built around it (if a product is super-easy to acquire, that ease could be a story itself).” (source) [...] […] Here’s a quote from his blog that I really liked: “Narrative is like a codec for storing and playing back memories, and people seek opportunities to build small stories in their lives. People judge products that are unremarkably easy to acquire on how well the thing works, rather than on a story they’ve built around it (if a product is super-easy to acquire, that ease could be a story itself).” (source) […]

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