The Wii Sauberman Controller was the result of a 4-day workshop held by Britta Pukall of Milani Design & Consulting, Zurich. Each participant got a random brand and a random object. The task was to develop a new product for this brand and legitimise it. I drew Nintendo Wii and a scoop/brush set, which I thought had quite a lot in common.
Wii‘s clean, childlike and social friendly image, in fact, tries to clean up with all kinds of negative aspects associated with the gaming community. Wii users are no longer inactive and lazy thanks to the motion sensitive controller. Child friendly multiplayer party games even bring the entire family together, or help to make new social contacts at any teenager party, if you believe the pictures on the advertisements. Nintendo Wii cleand up the cliché of the lazy socially isolated teenage kid playing ego shooter games.
I wanted to go a step further and developed a controller clip-on brush set for a new game, Sauberman. The aim of the game is to work through different levels with different game genres, having to clean up messy situations created with usual gaming actions.
Who knows, it might even positively affect one or the other gamer.
