Digitalresearchtools / FrontPage. Design Genius: A Shirt Created for the Modern, Gadgety World. These are pretty handsome shirts, right?
But you'll notice one funny detail in each--which in fact is a minor stroke of design genius. Those black patches are microfiber, and they're intended to allow you to wipe either your glasses or your phone: The shirts were designed by Katsunari and Ami Igarashi, whose firm, FIFT, usually focuses on product design. According to Design Yearbook, their mission is to "promote interaction between products and their users. " Which ordinarily would sound like a lot of B.S., but you could also look at the Wipe Shirt as a sort of essay about the process of good design.