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Weekly MoCo picks, The London Design Week edition, Part 1...

+ The Swarovski Crystal Palace video series by Dezeen: the Tom Dixon in Trafalgar Square movie with still images here, the Ross Lovegrove and Future Systems movie with still images here, and the Trash Luxe at Liberty movie with still images here.

+ anamorphosis attends the show, "As I sat outside the Royal Festival Hall this morning, I watched the 150 blocks of black pre-cast concrete of Zaha Hadid's sculpture "Super Fluid Tiling" be constructed, polished and curated.". Flickr group here and here. Via UnBiege.

+ Puff out lights designer Benjamin Hubert's Impression Crockery, "formed from a single surface" and Foam twist lights "made of re-used foam medical packaging". Via swissmiss.

+ Jason Bruges' Light Garden, "an animated garden of raised flowerbeds made up of hundreds of elevated cfl bulbs that glow and respond to passers-by." at designboom.

+ Cool Hunting spots Three Jewelry Designers from London Fashion Week, "a noticeable trend of delicate jewelery caught our attention.". That's Clara Francis' work with beads above.

+ Alexander Kneller's Side Chair One & Two could be seen at TENT London (formerly 100% East). Via pan-dan.
+ Core77 was there, and at I.DOT, and at 100%. And in Helsinki with Harri.

+ TreeHugger takes the Open House London tour and discovers some green houses people rarely see, or not at all. More here.
And beyond London,
+ BLDGBLOG's Dwell on Design show posts 12 Houses: The Wonderfully Puzzling and Colorful Use of Spatial Volume and Limey take a look at architect Lorcan O'Herlihy's work, "Lorcan has both a great sense of modernist architectural volume and a brilliant eye for color".

+ The 700 s.f. eco-prefab home Zero-Energy MkLotus debuts at Inhabitat at Dwell on Design, the "modular construction allows for customization and flexibility, while sliding doors allow residents to open up their house to the elements.".

+ bevk perović arhitekti's House HB at Arkinetia, "The house, situated on top of a low hill, appears like a transparent object rising from the ground.".
+ Three Layer Cake attends Maison et Objet, "compared to what has already been seen over the past year, most of what was exciting at this year's fair was really just...nice.".

+ The Livit Fly shelf with integrated projection screen. Via HemFeber and The Red Ferret.

+ The Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 6 MP3 player as only B&O can make an MP3 player (and earphones and speakers and software), "it comes natural for us to put emphasis on the acoustic performance of a music player.". Via Designscout.dk.

+ Industrial Facility designs a portable disk, called little disk, for LaCie. Designer Sam Hecht tells the story on YouTube. Via Dezain and Dezeen.
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+ LiteTouch's customizable Light Icons light switches. Via Behind the Curtains.

+ Rodrigo Alonso's N+ew "no more electric waste" Light with help from Recycla. Via designerblog.it.

+ Designer Soo-Yeon Yang's Live Book, a book-shaped terrarium "with a removable vase for drainage and cleaning.". Via designklub and Yanko Design.

+ The AquaVista 500, an aquarium that "hangs on the wall like a flat screen TV.". Via Apartment Therapy.
+ Watch Undoboy install his Blik Dreamland wall graphic in one minute. Via Josh Spear.



















