Spirals and horns

The traditional revolver shaped of hair-dryer has been simplified here and presented as a bent horn. 
The corner motive, the elbow form between the grip and the operation area is common in many handhold utensils like door handles, faucets and smoking pipes. From the thousands of different ways to realize this passage we present here the case of a form that develops from the triangular section of the grip into an oval one at the air outlet. In this way a 'rib', a corner edge, is created that dissolves gradually on the conical surface. 
A border on the oval face consents hooking the hair-dryer unto a rhombic tile in ABS. 

The shapes of horns, and of teeth or tusks was analyzed by d'Arcy Thompson in his famous book in relation to equiangular or logarithmic spirals. It is a classic example of the interpretation of form as a result of morphogenesis, or process of growth following  certain, even simple, rules. 
A similar process takes place virtually in our brain when we design and I believe that an inverse decodifying process happens on the mental level of perception of those forms. 

The horn form is a theme with multiple meanings such as the horn as a symbol of the divine force or the horn of abundance, the cornucopia, attribute of Flora, the Goddess of flowers who, as Ovidio tells us, was raped by Zephyr from whom she receives as a wedding gift eternal spring. 
And that reveals an unexpected function of the hairdryer, namely to bestow with a whiff of Zephyr eternal youth. 
 

Coffee maker "Marzia"

This machine in the form of a missile reminds us, like its name, of mars and the Martians. The transparent window for the control of the water level is the space suit with its the porthole and vizier of this alien. The levers for the compression of the coffee pollard as aerials with ovaloid ends like the protruding eyes of certain crabs. The little tube for vapor in the folded position forms the mouth and two thin birdlike legs fixed to an metallic ring suggest a mysterious way of ambulating. "Thus equipped, this being seems to tell us, I am capable of absolving well my duties in the world of earthlings. The oval controls, red on the yellow body makes this space robot humorist, almost like a child with its yellow jacket and red buttons. The menace of the projectile form is thus dismantled and contradicted by this ufologic ludic morphology.