Meta MoCo | 26 Apr 08 | Comments (0) | Stumble
This week's MoCo picks.

+ Day 2 of the CA BOOM guided home tour in West Los Angeles featuring five modern homes at Land+Living.

+ Method Homes debuts modern green prefab design, they are "targeting LEED-H Gold certification for the five-module abode, which will be about 1811 sf with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.". Via Jetson Green.

+ Flickr photoset of industrial designer Ross Stevens' New Zealand container house, "The bottom two containers, with no apparent windows, actually has a series of dinner plate sized peep holes (the grey spots on the outside), so the world passing overlaps in the lense view next to it.". Via Jetson Green and materialicious.

+ my new cottage, fabprefab reader kt's container cottage under construction, "I got my site scouted, foundation laid and containers placed before winter last year.". Via materialicious.

+ Judith's 101(!) sq. ft. "Lux Pod" is entered into Apartment Therapy's Smallest Coolest contest. Watch the slideshow.
And more Milan Design Week coverage:
+ Dwell blog's Milan Report: Prefab, "At least two were shown at the Milan Furniture Fair last week, including Joshua Tree by the Hangar Design Group... and Planit a modular prefab designed by Studio Bestetti".

+ DESIGNWS.COM's daily photo reports for Day 5, and Day 6.

+ Core77's Milan 2008 Design Coverage Roundup: All posts in one place!

+ Gestalten.tv's video of Jaime Hayon, presenting "the unveiling of the first half of his Fantasy Collection for the Spanish porcelain manufacturer LladrĂ³". Via Dezain.

+ Ingo Maurer's lighting exhibit at designboom featuring Early Future, a limited edition lamp designed by Maurer for OSRAM using "OLED or organic light emitting diodes [that] are a new form of lighting technology that emit light evenly from a surface instead of individual points, like LEDs do.".

+ Front's Shade project at Dezeen, objects and furniture that are "like materialized illustrations".

+ Gareth Neal's George3 console table. Via Sub-Studio design blog.
+ Cool Hunting interviews designer Maarten Baas, "For me it was really the next step after Smoke, Clay, Sculpt...".
+ Designguide.TV's video of Studio Job's The Farm, "In an amazing barn-like space in the centre of milan, twenty-four bronze works and six pieces of pallissander furniture will evoke the archetypal artefacts of the low lands".
+ Package design blog TheDieline.com has two Milan Design Week posts; one for Italian fashion magazine Velvet and another for Droog.

















