Four Fifths Design

Inspiration for the Creative Mind

Month: July, 2008

Popup Delicacies


Designer: Marina Lecade
Fine tableware is a victim to the rhythms imposed by modern society and globalization. Everyone is in a hurry. Time is money and food storage/portability is more important than actually enjoying what you eat slowly.

Popup Délices, a concept by Marina Lecade is a beautiful lunch box of sorts that not only look great but pops open to present your food like a pop-up book. Each case can be intricately decorated to meet your tastes and customized for your eating preferences; chopsticks or forks – not a problem. Bon Appetit!

Bezpieczenstwo

Designer: Bumrae Jo & Zemzem Kaya
You are sitting at home. You have your favorite show recorded ready to go and your favorite take-out was just delivered. It’s a cold, grey night outside but you are crinkling your toes like a kitten on weed. You are about as cozy as you can be and thanks to your good design sense and ability to create your perfect habitat. Well Bumrae Jo & Zemzem Kaya want to be a contributing factor in your perfect dwelling moments. They have designed the dreadfully named “Bezpieczenstwo – Feeling secure” radiator design that hopes to reinforce your nesting tendencies by creating…well something that looks like a nest in a tree. They even threw in an incubating egg that acts as a humidifier.

STALKER

Designer: Kevin Judlin
In the XXII century, the Earth has become a technogarden. Humanity is gathered in gigantic green megalopolises, in which technology is implemented everywhere for the inhabitants’ security. Great wild spaces still exist but are super-protected. In this technical and ultracivilised democracy, there is little place for adventure and change of scenery. This can only happen in highly respectful conditions.

Designer Kevin Judlin has extrapolated the present into the future and is already solving tomorrows problems. The Stalker is an airship vehicle that enables humanity to explore these superprotected realms symbiotically from a small detachable boat suspended from the main body. We assume it’s not as volatile as the Hindenburg.

It’s Real

Designer: Benedict Radcliffe
British artist Benedict Radcliffe created this amazing, full-scale sculpture of a Subaru Impreza. It looks like a computer model overlayed on a street photo, but it’s real, complete with Yokohama wire frame tires. Apparently local traffic cops weren’t pleased that the art was parked outside of the gallery on the street, as over the course of a few days, it was issued a few parking tickets!

Show Me The Way

Designer: Hayley Rosen, Dan Tafe, Dan Fichter & Keshia Stole
Light Way, a fiber optic baseboard lighting system, designed by Industrial Designers Hayley Rosen, Dan Tafe, Dan Fichter and Fashion Merchandiser, Keshia Stole is your ticket to a home or office installation

Light Way adds light to offices and residences where lighting wouldn’t normally be found or permitted by building codes. It is a good solution for people who want to have light in a less frequently used area of a home or building without having to leave the ceiling lights on all the time. Light Way illuminates as soon as someone enters the space. Motion sensors embedded in the molding turns on the fiber optic strands within the molding.

Fiber optics is light conducting rods that can carry light far distances. Light Way uses fiber optic strands to deliver light from a central “light source / generator” to luminares located throughout a space. A typical installation of Light Way places the light generator close to an electric utility and pipes the light to where it is needed, for example a long hallway. Light Way offers an interior designer the ability to sculpt the light in the hallway and provoke an interaction between passersby without having to extensively rewire a space.

Light Way features extruded aluminum moulding. Extrusion allows for manufacturers to make longer lengths and then cut them down to a specified size. Extrusion also helps the durability of the mouldings because it is one continuous piece that houses the fiber optics. The extrusions are powder coated in several finishes including a primer finish.

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