If I've learned anything from watching movies, it is that you usually get involved in a motorcycle chase through narrow European alleys at the same time that two workmen are transporting a large sheet of glass. I believe this will change, and in the future it will be two workmen transporting a DesignLine television.
With 46" and 55" screens, Philips' new DesignLine TVs might not be as large as Samsung's recently-unveiled behemoths, but they arguably have a more elegant design approach. Whereas Samsung's designers created metal frames—albeit sleek, sexy ones—to support the screen, Philips has adopted a monolithic approach for theirs. It simply looks like a gi-normous piece of glass leaning against the wall.
Cynical industrial designers will see this as the World's Simplest CAD Job, but there was a quite a bit more to it than that, as you'll see in the video below.
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