Oh, what a great wow when today I found out about Lamponi Slamps: from old stuff that we throw away every day they created amazing lamps. Look: how cool are they?
Instead of heading to the art supply store Lamponi Slamps just collect common trash and turn it into works of amazing art.
Look at Lamponi Slamps’s website and enjoy your green life!
The young Julia Lohmann from German recover bones and other animal waste materials to turn them into design objects: lamps, vases and silverware.
She graduated at The Royal College of Art and at first her graduation show appears repulsive and callous: a series of lamps made from sheep’s stomachs called Flock.
Have a look at the image below, one of the “light’s series triggers feelings oscillating between attraction and disgust, the former through their warm luminosity and the latter as soon as one learns more about their material origins. The honey-combed texture of the second stomach (every cow has four stomachs) envelopes the lights in a beautifuI, billowing lace.”
Lohmann says “You kill and cut up a cow and people are outraged. Yet we do that every day. And what percentage of that meat is being thrown away?” Lohmann’s work is an attempt to create something useful from every piece of the dead carcass – even the cavity.
Good luck Julia, we trust in your idea.
Not everything you see is true and here are a series of shadow illusions:
Tim Noble (born 1966) and Sue Webster (born 1967), who work as a team, are among the most celebrated of their generation of British artists; they are associated with the post-YBAgeneration of artists emerging after the Young British Artists of the 1990s.
They live and work together in Shoreditch, East London. Some of their notable pieces are made from piles of rubbish collected from London streets. A light is projected against the pile, and the shadow on the wall creates an entirely different image, typically one of the couple themselves: this is not at all apparent from looking directly at the pile.
The art of projection is emblematic of transformative art. The process of transformation, from discarded waste, scrap metal or even taxidermy creatures to a recognizable image, echoes the idea of ‘perceptual psychology’ a form of evaluation used for psychological patients. Noble and Webster are familiar with this process and how people evaluate abstract forms. Throughout their careers they have played with the idea of how humans perceive abstract images and define them with a meaning. The result is surprising and powerful as it redefines how abstract forms can transform into figurative ones.
You can find more information in Tim & Sue’s gallery site
Amazing idea from Nidhi Gupta: film roll lamp is made from spools of old film that are strung together and assembled into a circular shape.
If you like us love how the successive series of stills creates a shifting pattern as forgotten scenes weave a new narrative about sustainable design, vote for it now in inabitat ’s Spring Greening DIY Design Competition
“CAN DELIGHT” is the title of this amazing idea designed by Slovenian ZEK. These recycle aerosol spray cans, virtually useless, were make for the Light Guerilla competition. Each spray can is emptied and filled with a light bulb. The outer layer of the can is then paints with desired graphic. While the light looks simple, we basically can paint our very own picture to suit every occasion. Just a little creativity, and we get unlimited ways to display our light!
The “ZEK CREW” “produces random and conceptual visual interventions”, so have a look at their website.
Enjoy your green life then.
What is that? A beach ball? Or a lamp? We met Toby Sanders at his show at Tent London and The Dock, during Londons Design Fare. Toby is Design Director of TOBYhouse, a creative interiors studio founded by himself and based in London. It develops its own range of Home Accessories, as well as offering interiors consultancies in retail, domestic, exhibitions and environmental design. We was very surprised. ‘Cause that was both a ball and a lamp. BEACH BALL LAMPSHADE is a 40cm diameter ball lamp created by Toby. It’s a real PVC Beach Ball that has been transformed, by hand, using a process he has pioneered.
The outside has the surface of an actual inflated beach ball, even the ‘blowhole’ is visible. Yet It has a ‘rock hard’ inner shell that holds it inflated, and allows us to turn it into a really playful lampshade. Each piece is hand made to order with a dispatch time of 3-4 weeks.
The outer skin is made of a real PVC beach ball. Toby had developed a process to spread a thin polyurethane shell on the inner surface of beach balls. The inner surface has a ‘blackout’ white spray finish so it is totally opaque. He applies the edge trim, and applies a made to measure lamp shade holder.
This lamp shade is made with the guidance of the British Lighting Association and adheres to their best practice guidelines. It’s easy to fit, you will not require an electrician, or particular expertise. It is fitted in the same way as any normal paper lamp shade.
Before founding TOBYhouse, Toby has directed major international retail interiors projects for global brands such as Giorgio Armani, Habitat and Mandarina Duck as well as private domestic commissions and environmental design projects. He loves the way creativity can connect different areas of design, and provide serious responses to real problems.
Discover all the fantastic design ideas of Toby in his website. You can also buy his products online!
