Mythics design language is simultaneously old school and yet ironic:<p>- old school elements of wood, with metal accents like toggle switches. You can imagine this in Bakelite circa 1929.<p>- ironic in the use of curves and forms that echo Machine Age Futurism (think 1930s teardrop cars, stainless steel american diners etc). But instead of metals, done in wood.<p>It's an approach that embeds the computer, a fundamentally alien device, into a more domestic/cozy home environment. On that basis it works. But it makes me wonder what other design languages are possible, and, more fundamentally, whether the home environment itself has already changed to be more like the computer world than the other way around. Looking around my house for example I see some shiny white plastic objects that simply would not have existed if it were not for Apple using them in their designs 15 years ago. What is the standard of domestic beauty in design now? Is it wood, leather and gold - or brushed aluminum and reflective white plastic?