What're your favorite non-car designs from Porsche Design, Giugiaro, etc.?

[MIE1992]

I recall seeing a train designed by Giugiaro when my family and I visited Portugal, and I know that Pininfarina designed apartments lately, as well as the Coke Freestyle machines. (Someone also mentioned that Pininfarina designed some streetcars for San Francisco.) Plus, in more recent news, we've had Aston Martin's design team making a submarine, and a bit before that, a building - something that I recall Porsche Design doing as well, in addition to the latter's suits and sunglasses. There's also Ken Okuyama, who's worked on numerous cars as an employee of Pininfarina, including the Ferrari Enzo - but more recently has made his own car designs like the Kode 9, alongside stuff like glasses frames and even cutlery.

 

[homeforsummer]

I fell down a Wikipedia hole on the Nissan Pike factory cars a while back - the Be-1, Pao, S-Cargo, Figaro and Rasheen. They were the work of an industrial designer called Naoki Sakai, and those industrial design backgrounds are often fascinating. Probably the most signficant non-car project Sakai worked on was the Olympus O-Product camera:

Quite a fun bit of design, and makes perfect sense when you see it in context of the Pike stuff, particularly the S-Cargo.

 

[MIE1992]

I really wish there were more posts like yours - I'm still very interested in this subject!