yesyes! i was right! "hair salon"!!! *strut* \


heh

Constant Garden Speakers: Make Your Desk Look Like Shrek Crop Field

A design team at Umea Design School created Constant Garden to act as a desktop speaker that gently plays gardeny sounds ("Oh— would you look at those weeds?!") and act as an audio secretary, prompting you about appointments. It's designed in rubber, and each of those Shrek-ear-like fronds holds a mini speaker that also lights up with LED magic. Apparently it's an attempt to "coordinate audio visual mechanics and integrate them more seamlessly into our daily lives," but, whatever— I reckon it'd look sweet on my desk, pouring out tunes as I work. Shame it's just a concept.

Designed by D-Vision Bubblicious is a fruit bowl comprised of varying volumes of spheres. It allows you to place fruits of different sizes, in a way that enables to position the object in a new equilibrium each time, due to the change in the center of gravity.

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Fantastical!

Ammonite washbasin made from patented concrete, with fossil-shaped basin - hightech

cantilever stool on semigood

nicko said...
Tetris shelves!

cool - does the line clear if you fill it?

they are led, so shouldn't really need changing very often. also, the units aren't that big, so i guess taking them off the wall should be a doddle!

ah. thank you mr sock

~still hunting lamps~

over time it has become an 'i'll know it when i see it' situation. there's a lot of imho ugly lighting fixtures out there. these links have been helpful in eliminating possibilities.

if i were short on chairs and light, this would be just the thing.

i'm seriously considering a yard-sale collection of Bad Lamps, just for kicks, to see if there is a quantity of ugly light fixtures in a group that will make the point to the collection obvious.

like many of these

or maybe these

i like spotlights shining up into trees in the garden, i like big light bouncing off walls in the house. i like strings of lights in certain circumstances, and i like pinhole up/downlighters in ceilings, skirting boards, stairs, floors and decking.

i recently saw some philips ambient lighting modules that would probably bore me to tears due to their looks in mere weeks, but they were multicoloured led things that you could set the colours on, or even vary over time automagically. amazon had them for £100 a pop, which is totally stupid money to pay for a light - i'm off to maplins

chris said...i think that i am interested in lights. thing is, i've never really been able to find a light fitting that i like for longer than a year. this leads me to believe that it isn't actually lights that i like, it's light, falling on objects and planes around the source.

i agree, and this is definitely a part of the issue for me. my first choice would be larger/more windows. it's not an option unfortunately. i'll end up having to make the fixtures and shades, not that bad a thing but adding another project to the do-list was not really what i had in mind. oh well

lighting interests me, too, and i've seen plenty of lighting strategies that i admire, but would never even consider.

that's why i generally end up making my own. my solutions are usually short-term, as mostly i make lampshade/sconces out of paper or something similar. the loveliest sconces i ever made were from gluing 20lb test fishing line to an inflated balloon and then cutting the balloon shape to fit what i wanted. those sconces lasted 3 years. they were replaced by woven twigs in an open wall-basket.

the lamps i made for the gallery out of old fancy hats lined with aluminum kitchen bowls are fantastic, and i'd never for a minute want them in my house.


my problem these days is projecting towards no more incandescent bulbs. i DEEPLY dislike fluorescent lighting. LEDs are fun to experiment with, but it takes a lot of shiny to project their light very far.


in short.. of course you're going to have to make your own, bull.

that washing machine one sprays a pretty nice pattern. but i'd soon get over the initial "cool light!" thing and feel a bit silly for having a washing machine drum hanging from the ceiling in my living room.

(A: Grater)

aha, are these ones that you have made, mick? why on earth haven't you posted them in here before?!

maybe i should send you a digital camera...

bookshelves!

all found items. the shade was an amazing discovery.

it is indeed. did you click through and look at some of his other stuff?

BILGE LOUNGE, humphump! from uhuru

table concept by french designer john nouanesing.

patio furniture.

yep with you there. some really fun and interesting concepts, catalysts inspiring some fun thoughts...but i wouldn't want to clean them.