inconvenient switch

inconvenient switch by geunwook lee from korea

designer's own words:

A inconvenient switch makes have a rethink to save energy from hard process. Easy OFF : a switch takes a one step for put out. a easy process help energy-saving. Hard ON : when you turn on a switch, need a two steps process.
step 1 - from right to left,a horizontal movement is too hard in a right hander.
step 2 - a vertical movement from bottom is a last process.
This switch is a different from others that operation is based on clockwise cycle.
It's a similar recycling marks. so we expect to remind of resource recycling.

inconvenient switch

copy_1666_2.jpg describe operation

copy_1419_3.jpg the meaning of directions