11.25.2009


When I look at my computer setup I have in my room, there is always one problem I notice, cable management. I have too many cables as it is, and when they are grouped together they always seem to form a life of their own and tangle in many unimaginable ways to the point in which they are almost impossible to separate. I have always had a problem with cable management, so whenever I come across a way to organize my cables in a neat and orderly fashion, my eyes get wide and I get excited. Which is pretty much what happened when I came across this photo of a cable management design by Maisie Broadhead. While it may trick the mind at first, it is pretty much exactly what you imagine it to be, one long cable fashioned into a very neat form to where it looks acceptable. Even though this seems like an extravagant solution for the problem of just one unsightly long and obtrusive cable, it does make a couple very good points about design. Such is that, if you can't find a way to hide something in which you can't get rid of regardless, your best bet is to make it look pretty with the means you have available to you. So the long and the short of it is that you must be resourceful to find ways to make things work, and this is especially prevalent in design. In this case they are killing two birds with one stone, making the cable look like it belongs there, and also filling the very empty void that sat atop the fireplace. This has certainly inspired me and when am I am such a situation next, I think I just might follow along in their design footsteps.

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