Posts Tagged ‘product’

Parans

Parans Daylight AB has developed a sunlight transmission system for buildings that consists of three parts: the light-collecting panel, SkyPort; the light transporting cable, SunWire; and the lightemitting luminaries, Björk. The patent pending SkyPort is Parans’s primary innovation. Two layers of...

August 2nd, 2009 | feature, light | Read More

Steel Tongue

Steel Tongue chair is inspired by the pierced tongue. The Project Import Export design is handcrafted with stainless-steel wire and recyclable aluminum strips. Adapting cradle-to-cradle concepts, Steel Tongue’s aluminum strips are easily disassembled and reusable on another chair with another shape....

July 30th, 2009 | metals | Read More

Stabiligrid

Stabiligrid is an economical, easy-to-install, load-bearing pervious-pavement lattice grid. It is an environmentally sound alternative to pavement, effectively reducing storm-water runoff and allowing the underlying soil to absorb and process environmental toxins, such as cadmium, copper, lead, and zinc,...

July 24th, 2009 | plastic | Read More

Low Rez LED Net

Low Rez LED Net is part of a custom-built interactive public art installation consisting of a series of double-sided LED “nets” capable of producing video imagery and animated text. Each net is made up of approximately 8,000 double-sided LED pixels suspended on a cable-net system. The pixels are...

July 20th, 2009 | feature, interactive | Read More

Line

Part light fixture, part timepiece, part art installation, James Clar’s Line is a linear information display that utilizes the full-spectrum possibilities of tricolor LEDs. Since Line is a programmable device, it is provided with two factory-preset functions. The first function is a clock, which attributes...

July 19th, 2009 | light | Read More

Cascade

3form Glass is based on a patent-pending liquid lamination technology that allows for even distribution of objects throughout the glass. It also makes clean, exposed edges a possibility and allows frameless applications. The newest addition to the 3form Glass line, Cascade, is produced by encapsulating...

July 14th, 2009 | feature, glass | Read More

Prism Screen

The aggregation of thin, triangular aluminum prisms, which are transformed into intriguing structures that resemble eccentric space-frames, makes up Prism Screen. Inspired by organic growth patterns, Korban/Flaubert developed Prism Screen as a reconfigurable system evoking web formations and branching...

July 14th, 2009 | metals | Read More

Live Within Skin

Live Within Skin is a wall system comprised of engineered layers of lightweight plant-growth medium. Designed by Greenmeme ecological designer Freya Bardell, the modular vertical garden integrates living vegetation with the built environment so that the walls can be proactively used to address issues...

April 18th, 2009 | feature, metals | Read More

Wet Lamp

According to Los Angeles–based NONdesigns, water and electricity have become friends. WET Lamp is an elegant and playful series of hand-blown glass lamps, each with a water-submerged light bulb at its center. This placement of an exposed light bulb in water creates an intriguingly simple dimmer switch:...

March 8th, 2009 | light | Read More

River Glow

Developed by David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang, River Glow is a system of floating pods that monitors water quality and displays a variable light signal that is visible from the water or onshore. Each unit consists of an underwater pH probe, super bright LEDs, uncoated fiber-optic strands, and photovoltaics...

March 1st, 2009 | digital | Read More