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THAW 2006
Podcasts | Jul 11, 2006 | Comments (0)

thaw_exhibit_2006.jpgThe Industrial Designers of Edmonton Association recently held their annual THAW design exhibition. We spoke with IDEA president Shoko Cesar and he gave us an illustrated tour of the show in the audio+images podcast below. The theme this year was sustainable design. Some of the designs featured; a coat rack with paper tube "hooks" that double as storage, a picture frame/measure for kids to track their growth with images and centimeters, candle shaped electrical lights made of candy and a table with drawers with a peeled wood handle (you have to see it). More images after the jump.

+ MP4 Quicktime Stream
+ idea_thaw_show_2006_2.m4a (5.52Mb audio iPod file, right click and "Save link as")

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onespace; day and night
Architecture | Jul 11, 2006 | Comments (0)

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+ I'm surprised I missed this back in April, here's a stop-motion video of Apartment Therapy Smallest Coolest Apartment award winner "onespace". Via Treehugger.

 
     

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Platforms
Societal | Jul 11, 2006 | Comments (0)

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Can design help cure social ills? It's a tall order, but there is no doubt that design can help. Architecture for Humanity and eco design are familiar and comfortable places where design can make a difference. Less comfortable, but no less important or worthy, is homelessness in our own backyards, and now, the Aphrodite Project's Platforms which use design and technology to bring sex workers on par with other public workers. "6-inch, silver leather sandals with built-in video and GPS technology that link the wearer to emergency services and an online community network. These design elements combine the rich mythology of Aphrodite with the concerns of sex workers on the streets: safety, advertising/promotion, and community.". Via blog.elektra.

 
     
 
Interview: Nicolas Roope
Interview | Jul 10, 2006 | Comments (0)

New media designer Sebastian Campion, who is interview-worthy in his own right, recently did an interview with Hulger CEO Nicolas Roope of retro-cel-phone-handset fame and offered it to MoCo Loco. Herewith is the interview with Nicolas, that's him in the photo below (taken by Violetta Boxill-Roope, his wife and creative director at icon):

The Unbearable Lightness of Consumer Electronics:
an interview with Nicolas Roope

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Ever since the birth of the mobile phone, its evolution has been all about one thing: size. On one hand, the phones get smaller and smaller, on the other hand they contain ever more features, functionalities, pixels and megabytes. But why is smaller more desirable? Why is new always better? Why must technology always look forwards, never backwards? It was questions like these that inspired Nicolas Roope to come up with the concept for Hulger, which in all its simplicity consists of retro landline receivers that can be used with a mobile phone or a PC. After its launch a few years ago, it soon turned out that Nicolas Roope was not the only one longing for a little anarchy in the streamlined landscape of high-tech mobile products and his first models sold as hot cakes on eBay. The buzz surrounding these new, strangely familiar, objects spread via the web to international lifestyle magazines and news media and today, Hulger is sold in stores throughout the world.

It all began as an artistic statement but within a few years Hulger has turned into a normal - well, almost normal - design product.

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FingerPrints
Art | Jul 10, 2006 | Comments (0)

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+ Let your fingers do the painting with DNA11's new FingerPrints. From the makers of DNA art, comes more art based on your identity. You send life-sized fingerprints (via a kit), they send you back a Giclee print with your prints enlarged 4000% on canvas.

 
     
 
Launch Pad Top 20
Shows | Jul 10, 2006 | Comments (0)

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Launch Pad, a non-profit program that promotes emerging Australasian designers, has chosen 20 entries (from a field of 100 submissions) to be exhibited at the Melbourne Museum in a two-week exhibition which begins tomorrow. We’ve chosen three, from left; Lilypad Seat by Bilardospencer, “a low circular fibreglass moulded form, suitable for indoor, outdoor and water use”, Unwined by Ted Smyth, “a new concept in mood lighting for interior spaces. The major component of the light is provided by a recycled wine bottle.” and Brody Sofa by Arthur Koutoulas, “a marriage of furniture and architecture. Based on the idea of seamlessly fusing a sofa with a wall”. See all 20 here.

 
     
 

1000_new_designs_where_find.jpgIf MoCo Loco was a book, this would be it. 1000 New Designs is a sourcebook of more than a thousand contemporary designs, all of them recent (none older than the turn of this century) with more than half from the last 12 months alone. Organized by category; furniture, storage, lighting, textiles, rugs, bathrooms, kitchenware, and electronic products, each object is presented with a caption providing details such as manufacturer web site and designer info. The book also has commentaries on the objects presented as well as trends and includes interviews with 33 designers. Practically every page of this 352 page book has several color images of objects. Softcover, $18.87 at Amazon.

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Meta MoCo
Meta MoCo | Jul 8, 2006 | Comments (0)

This week’s MoCo picks.

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+ Francisco Portugal e Gomes’ Casa Milhundos @ Arkinetia.

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+ John Powers archi-sculpture. Via Future Feeder.

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+ Five Royal College of Art Summer Show picks @ Cool Hunting.

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+ rAndom in New York, LightRoller and Pendant Lights shown in Ingo Maurer's NYC Shop during New York Design Week. Via Reluct.

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+ designboom’s ‘shelter in a cart’ social awareness design competition has five ex equo winners. Some might question the contest’s concept, but it’s got you thinking about homelessness right now.

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+ The language of design is universal and Japanese TV is, well, quirky. You almost don't need to know Japanese to "get" TV Tokyo's Design Channel show (click on Design Channel>enter). Download the latest .wmv show here. Via jeansnow.net and storm from the east.

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+ Britain's New Designers announces the winners of the New Designers 2006 awards, Jo Hayes-Ward for her jewellery (left) and John Slater's collapsible, integrated desk. Via The Apartment.

 
     
 
Random
Misc | Jul 7, 2006 | Comments (0)

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+ Elmanco sent us this new radiator design from Adhoc called Random designed by Giovanni Casali. Thanks Stefano!

 
     
 
This Week at Art MoCo
Art | Jul 7, 2006

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A wall mural made entirely of transparent thumbtacks sends a clear message to creative types all over: Fail Harder. Not a bad way to start the week.
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Salvatore Federico combines geometry with music, making shapes and patterns dance throughout his works.
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What looks like a security point at an airport is actually Thomas Demand’s cardboard version of one.
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Lorraine Peltz is serving up more fruit in her paintings these days, but one has to admit she had a fine way with a Hostess cupcake.
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Hard to believe that a tv dinner can be so iconic, and Stephen Shore is just the sort of photographer who is to blame for embedding diner culture into our psyche. SM

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Cholesterol lighting
Lighting | Jul 6, 2006 | Comments (8)

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Designed by Shoko Cesar, our own Greg Ball, and Darryl Barton, Cholesterol is a lamp made with reused clear plastic egg cartons. The designers explain; "North America's rich and over-indulgent culture generates millions of tons of waste that flow into the landfill every year. Cholesterol lighting helps to block the flow of waste by adding beauty to our devalued waste products. By reusing material that is on its way to the landfill, Cholesterol adds aesthetic value to a disposable material and asks the user to reconsider: what materials are disposable, and what materials can be reused for their aesthetic value.". Cholesterol is a project designed for the THAW 2006 show.

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truth
Art | Jul 6, 2006 | Comments (2)

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Polish industrial designer and street artist 'truth' tags buildings and structures not with paint, but with his own 3D industrial design/architecture. Says he; "I play with surroundings, architecture and passers-by... ".

+ truthtag.com

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