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CLS Mobile Drive by Sylvain Willenz
Brussels designer Sylvain Willenz drew on cassette tapes and floppy disks for the design of these external hard drives.
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Called CLS Mobile Drive, the design features paper labels behind removable windows for marking the contents of each drive.
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A dock allows three drives to be connected at once.
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Willenz created the design for German digital storage company Freecom.
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Photographs are by Julien Renault.
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Here's some more information from Willenz:
New CLS Mobile drive designed by SYLVAIN WILLENZ for FREECOM
Following the success of the XXS Mobile Drive and other products, Freecom commissioned us to develop a new concept for collecting and organizing data.
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The response is the CLS Mobile Drive, an external mobile hard drive that incorporates a labeling system on its side, enabling users to organize their data and identify hard drive contents at a glance.
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Witnessing the growing number of hard drives owned by individuals for their data (music, data, films, back-ups...) and inspired by the old cassette tapes and floppy drives, we imagined a drive that could be labeled in a very simple and personal way.
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The label is kept behind a removable window set in the side of the drive. The CLS comes in a stackable see-through case with spare colored labels and a small USB cable. Alongside, we also designed a dock, allowing for 3 drives and 1 extra peripheral to be connected to the computer simultaneously.
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Materials: Injection moulded plastics, 2.5" Hard Drive
Dimensions: 109.8 x 79.5 x 13.5 mm
Project Assistant: Robbie Van Nieuwenhove
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