Capitalizing on the cutesyness of the car, mini sold more than 10,000 of these $100 car cuckoo clocks.
post modern cuckoo clocks
People sometimes make fun of the Swiss, since all they are famous for inventing is the Cuckoo Clock. Which is not really fair, because they didn’t - the Germans did. Here are some post modern alternatives (both intentional and accidental) to the classic Black Forest Cuckoo Clock.
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A concept by Chris Dimino. Every hour Jack bursts through the door saying Heres Johnny, while Shelly Duval screams.
One half of the clock operates like a normal wall clock. The other half is merely a pendulum with a cute 2.5D cuckoo bird sticking out of it.
Unica home have a variety of modern design cuckoo clocks for between $300 and $500. Shown here is the Kalimero.
Designed by Pascal Tarabay and costing around $200 this is a nice and simple modern take on the iconic Cuckoo clock.
A bit like the iPhone - its an alarm clock and a phone. Except that the clock doesnt actually work.
You can choose the base ornament - horse, hog, panda or grizzly bear on this grotesque item, which, for sheer exuberance transcends kitsch. An accidental post modern masterpiece.
Another post modern cuckoo clock, this time by Tobias Reischle, from 2006 and stocked by the Moma Store.
A transformed cuckoo clock, covered entirely in natural objects like feathers, snail shells, wood, eggshells, beans, wasp nests, and cicada exoskeletons.
There are dozens of cuckoo clocks that claim to be the worlds largest. This is one of them. Watching the Lederhosen figures wobble in this video and you can see why Bavaria will never rule the world.
The CuckooIP was a student project at the Royal College of Art in London, it receives alarms by phone and then replays them at set times when the cuckoo appears.
