Blobalicious!

The San Jose Museum of Art is holding an exhibition of organic design, the products of which are sometimes called blobjects.

Here's a link to the Museum site.

There's a concise summary of the exhibition, accompanied by excellent photos, in Metropolis magazine, and interviews with exhibition curators Steven and Mara Holt Skov.

Link.

Design has always aimed to strike an emotional chord in its users, but perhaps no style does this better than the amorphous blobject. At once organic, tactile, and ergonomic, the blobject is inspired by the curvy shapes in nature--the human breast, a weathered stone, tear drops--but forged via cutting-edge technology.

“Blobs can too easily be seen as superficial, but in reality they are the answer to marrying ecological concerns, emotion, cultural expression, and state-of-the-art technology” said Holt.

I couldn't have put it better myoself.