Philips lighting

 

My father used to work at Philips Lighting and gave me these vintage items to share. The flashcubes are such a trip down memory lane!

Cardboard drums

The other day we were at a big flea market where we noticed this guy who made these little cardboard drums for children. In no time both our children had their own drums!

I did a quick Google images search on 'cardboard' and came up with a few results shown below:

Above: Cardboard office, Nothing Agency

Arik Koudenburg & Joost Bleiswijk

Above: Aza Raskin

Above: Piotr Pacalowski

Above: Leo Kempf

Above: David Stark

Above: Cardboard Safari

Above: Mark Langan

Above: Yuki Matsuoka

Graduation Show 2010 Design Academy #6

Michelle Baggerman graduated from the design department 'Man and leisure'

Precious Waste is a new strong material from poor quality plastic bags. Michelle has succeeded in processing her used plastic bags wihout heating or added chemicals. She has turned them into durable but fine threads with which she has weaved a new fabric. The woven product is much stronger than the original, which will considerably increase the lifespan of this material that takes so long to decompose.

Wilco Spruijt graduated from the design department 'Man and leisure'
Table Tones is a table and a musical instrument in one. It offers an accessible way to make music and to communicate together at the table. By turning the boxes upside down you change the table surface from a flat colourful tabletop to a landscape of wood. From table to musical instrument. The basis for this table is a musical instrument called the tonguedrum, which is in essence one of the first instruments man used for communicating with one another.

Nel Linssen

Nel Linssen is a Dutch jewelry designer and paper artist. Her amazing designs are beautiful pieces of art.

'My work arises intuitively and in an empirical way. I am continually trying to discover logical constructions, inspired by rhytms and structures in the botanical world.

In the development of my ideas the use of paper as a means of expressing myself was an obvious choice. As a material, it possesses a lot of qulities that come in useful to me. Moreover, the tactile qualities of paper are important in connection with wearable objects.

The cause for a new type of research is often quite coincindental. Struck by a certain form of material, I start a quest in which an interaction arises of thought and action in order to attain a useful concept. Finding the appropriate technical solutions is an important challenge in connection with this.'

Discovered at Mein Inspiration

Graduation Show 2010 Design Academy #5

Sophie de Vocht graduated from the design department 'Man and living'

A piece of lounging furniture (Loop chair) on the cutting edge between chair and carpet, Sophie de Vocht has caught the comfort of the two and united them to become one product. She has created a hand-tufted cover out of a piece of knitting yearn measuring a staggering 300 metres, created especially by the Textielmuseum in Tilburg. 

Yuya Ushida graduated from the design department 'Man and activity'
SOFA_XXXX is made of just 4 different lengths of bamboo sticks, rings and joints. the parts on their own don't seem to be special, but when put together in a regular pattern their beauty appears.
It can be contracted, which makes it easier for transportation. While contracted it can be even used as a chair.

Graduation Show 2010 Design Academy #4

Garance Echazarreta graduated from the design department 'Man and well being'
This mysterious creature is a striking appearance in the interior. The Beast is organic, soft, hairy and exurberant. Its foam rubber antennae or tentacles will offeryou an unusual but comfortable seat, allowing you to immerse yourselfin foam. Hide under t, play with it, flump down in it and The Beast will come to life.

Chloé Pouzoulet graduated from the design department 'Man and well being'
This hand-knitted woollen rug Dune starts off oblong and rigid, but ends in a soft cylindrical trunk in the middle. The trunk can be rolled up to form a comfortable pillow to sit or lie down on, but you can also crawl into it. Those who find he opening and allow themselves to be pulled in will become one with the floor and fuse with thedomestic landscape. Caught in the knitting, your body will give the rug a new shape. A pact between body and architecture in which the two become one.