Another beautiful product (soon to be released) from KithKin‘s “Some Rights Reserved” open-source design collection is Matthew Appleton’s “Afterlife” poster – it builds on the growing trend of product dissections for good by depicting the relative geometric footprint of a printer’s many parts as compared to a pencil. The project claims to show how complex […]
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opportunity carbon cost
Posted in 2d, energy, environment, materials, possessed products, product design, traceability
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light blocks
Yesterday at the Salone Satellite in Milano in the taro & sarah booth I was struck by this modular lamp: you can add polyhedral modules in any direction to change the shape and brightness of the chandelier in crystalline fashion. Each module is made of folded translucent plastic with magnetic contacts acting as both structure […]
Posted in customization, fabrication, product design, soft/glowing
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Clear Conscience
Philippe Starck is showing his concept for a transparent home-sized electricity-generating windmill at the Interni Green Energy Design exhibit at the Statale in Milano for the next two weeks. It is a small prototype windmill that is designed to function in urban settings, and it has even been designed to be transparent so as not […]
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open books
The best part of the China China China! exhibit at Florence’s Strozzina is the reading room: unlike all the boring, walk-by-and-out-the-door reading rooms you see at every art exhibit in the world, this particular room captivated us. Why? Because there was a photocopier in the room – a wonderful breach of copyright law, an encouragement […]
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baby fendi
fendi + baby = ? please comment
Posted in children, marketing, product design
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animated paint
Flickr introduced high-quality video to its amazing array of social image sharing functionality – a new medium for the web (see the best videos here). To celebrate here is Orit Zuckerman‘s freshly uploaded video of Moving Portrait 2 (above) and this AWESOME three-dimensional image (if you cross your eyes)(below).
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recording elegance
HARUO OBA presented “special moments” today at CHI 2008 – two brilliant tangible recording interfaces mapped to physical phenomena. The BOOK RECORDER consists of two clips – one in the shape of an owl and the other in the shape of the moon – placed on the front and back covers of a child’s book. […]
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tragic toys
Healthy Toys keeps track of the deadliest children’s products on the market – in terms of lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, bromine, and antimony (in parts per million). You can check out the ratings of your children’s belongings, ask for toys to be evaluated, or use the site to shop for less-toxic options. Good luck!