Meta MoCo | 08 Dec 07 | Comments (0) | Stumble
This week's MoCo picks.

+ Make It Right calls for the building of 150 affordable & environmentally sound houses over the next two years to help the homeless victims of Hurricane Katrina. Brad Pitt commissioned 13 architecture firms to help rebuild New Orleans’s impoverished Lower Ninth Ward, one of the neighborhoods hardest hit by the 2005 disaster. Via eye candy and Core77.

+ The first prefab Weehouse built in a major city has 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, a heated tuck-under garage, and many floor-to-ceiling windows. Via materialicious.

+ The Prototyp Einfamilienhaus by AKA architetti is an eco-compatible, low-energy single family wooden house design contest winnner. Via Dezeen.

+ Domestic's Narcisse collection of artists’ mirrors with designs by Matali Crasset, 5.5 Designers, Geneviève Gauckler, Ich&Kar, Rolito, Tado, Antoine+Manuel, Pierre Marie, Ana Mir+Emili Padròs. Via Dezeen.

+ Marina Bautier's furniture collection for Tokyo brand Idée. Her Desk has metal components that transform a standard table into a desk. Via DESIGNSPOTTER.

+ Anna Gotha's multifunctional Modulo radiator with upholstered aluminum core modules that "gives you the opportunity to use the installation as a piece of furniture to lean up against. Also, the core is warmed up by the radiator and therefore you can take it with you to bed, or maybe outside in the cold.". Via DESIGNSPOTTER.

+ Musician Mark Mothersbaugh's art rugs, a collaborative effort with wife Anita and Walteria Living. Via Daddy Types and LAist.

+ Nervous System' experimental jewelry which uses "unique materials like silicone rubber and stainless steel, along with rapid prototyping technology.". Via designboom.
+ Philippe Starck's Why design? TED conference video, "Along the way he drops brilliant insights into the human condition; listen carefully for one perfectly crystallized mantra for all of us, genius or not.". Via Core77.

+ Mark Reigelman's Ode to Oldenburg light switch and plastic onlookers. Via pan-dan.

+ The Karim Rashid designed Opus No5 digital server, "Music is fluid, music is movement, music is sexy. So, for the new Olive OPUS Nº5, I designed fields of digital graphics with a repeated element symbolic of binary notation for a perfect container of sound.". Via Unplggd.

+ Wine no Hajimekata DS, a wine tasting game for the Nintendo DS, "the game teaches wine enthusiasts how to taste and pair wines, and to facilitate the process, the first 1,000 units include a bottle of Dourthe No. 1.". Via Cool Hunting.














