Posted by sabine7
Meta MoCo | 04 Jul 07 | Comments (3) | Stumble
Recent MoCo submissions.
+ Ondine is a new flexible urban bench, designed by Michel Bihain for Belgium’s Parckdesign '07, which opens tomorrow. The theme is Hug a Tree and winning designs will be placed outdoors in a park for a three-year test period.
+ The Poor Light is a pictogram of a lamp that can help shed light in a deceitful manner. Used as a screensaver, the Poor Light provides a gentle glow, but used as a template to cut a lamp-shaped hole in a curtain it provides a link to natural light.
+ Reddot is a permanent installation of responsive architecture that uses laser sensors to project small red dots onto people’s legs and then trigger colour and light on a plexiglass grid. The flow of people in and out of the space is tracked visually, providing a dialogue based on movement.
+ Stig Skjelvik’s Dream Arrow lamp prototype acts like a compass, pointing in the direction that you choose …
+ San Francisco architecture firm Group 41 is offering to provide up to $10,000 of free design services for the design of a residential or commercial structure built out of recycled shipping containers.
+ The Bend table lamp is designed by the MrSmith Studio for FontanaArte at the recent Euroluce.
+ Sonodesign’s smoked or clear acrylic Profilelamp creates an effective play of reflections, thanks to the repetitive form.
+ The humble sandwich bag takes it up a notch. Mobi’s zipper sandwich bags (also good for organizing and toting anything that fits) are now to be designed by Todd Oldham.
Erm... What's so new about converting containers into housing or shops? What about this: http://www.tempohousing.com? And what about the Freitag tower in Zurich? http://www.freitag.ch/___shops/zurich/zurich.htm
Anneke
Yeah we COULD get some Mobi zipper sandwich bags designed by Todd Oldham OR we could be responsible designers and stop encouraging waste and disposable culture? .... maybe? .... please?
It made me stop and think. I realized I just purchased my first box of Ziploc bags ever last September (still not empty). I always used to think that they were for ‘other people’, coming from a home where there are still old margarine containers kicking around from the 1970s instead of Tupperware. Sheesh -why couldn’t re-using have been cool when I was a kid?