Anna Carnick's Design Voices

Anna Carnick: Do you remember what your first official "design" project was?

Dror Benschetrit: My first design, yes. I was interested in physics, something that has some magic, that plays with gravity. And it was something that played with mass and volume, transforming back and forth because of gravity. It’s hard to describe, but I was just playing with that as my portfolio pieces in order to get into design school. And those were my first experiments.That’s very interesting, particularly given your professional portfolio to date—and especially considering the release of QuaDror in 2011. It seems you’re still focusing on the same elements today—toying with gravity and physics, for example—that drew you to design early on. It’s so true. I don’t know if you’ve seen this, but I came home yesterday, and saw an interview on CNN with Johnny Depp. He repeated himself a few times, saying, "You know, I’m still the same guy as I was when I pumped gas." There are certain things that just don’t change. Somebody once told me that you could find enough ideas in your first sketchbook for the rest of your life, and it’s true. There’s something in our DNA that has been there all the time, and, of course, we progress and learn more, and it becomes more sophisticated maybe, but there’s a certain DNA that is always there. When you look around at the greater design landscape today, what do you see?