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"De Witte Tanden Winkel" is a shop in Amsterdam that specializes in toothbrushes and toothpastes. -----Original Message----- From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design on behalf of Raizman,David Sent: Wed 15/07/2009 13:45 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: tooth brush designs Dear Keith, I solve the problem you mentioned by pushing the brush end of the 'ergonomic' toothbrush handles up through the holes of an older toothbrush holder; perhaps not the best solution, but it works every morning and evening; guess I could look for this newer Colgate model, though of course the others come free after my regular visits to the dentist. David Raizman Professor, Art & Art History Department Westphall College of Media Arts & Design Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104 [log in to unmask] www.drexel.edu/westphal ________________________________________ From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Swanson, Gunnar [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:37 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: tooth brush designs Keith, After years of dentists suggesting various mechanical and electrical methods of scrubbing and scraping my gums to save them from receding, I went to a periodontist who told me that everyone's gums were receding because they were assaulted by toothbrushes and floss. He gave me the softest toothbrush he could find. It looked like the quintessential simple toothbrush without grips or multiple bristle types at multiple angles--the antithesis of everything in an ID magazine article about toothbrush design. Nobody sells the damned things retail so I had to buy a half a gross of them. If you buy a full gross, it costs only a few cents more to have them imprinted. I guess dentists have their names inscribed so their patients won't forget where to go for a new toothbrush. Custom toothbrushes sounded good so I had to decide what I wanted to be reminded of every morning. (I'm more than slightly bemused at a friend who writes affirmative messages on post-it notes and puts them on her bathroom mirror and here I was doing the same thing.) I settled on a phrase from Virgil that I had read as a epigraph in a Lawrence Durrell novel many years ago: quisque sous patimer manes. It was translated as "We make our own fates by the gods we choose to worship." Good advice, indeed and worth thinking about each morning. I looked it up on the web to make sure I was spelling it right. It seems that Durrell's translation was fairly cheery. Many people translate it as "Everyone carries his own hell with him." For some reason, that translation made my friend with the post-it notes smile and nod. Gunnar ---------- Gunnar Swanson Design Office 1901 East 6th Street Greenville, North Carolina 27858 [log in to unmask] +1 252 258 7006 at East Carolina University: +1 252 328 2839 [log in to unmask] To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://disclaimer.leedsmet.ac.uk/email.htm