rip off wall with lights......

In reference to the idea of people taking something off the wall............


Light Form: Gorgeous Wood Wall Panels Flip Up to Reveal Light Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World: "Even the most basic origami figures prove that a few simple folds can result in an intricate and captivating sculptural design. Expanding upon the concept behind this Japanese art, designers Francesca Rogers and Daniele Gualeni Design Studio have created “Light Form” – a beautiful modular lighting system consisting of wood panels that can be flipped back to expose energy-efficient electroluminescent lights. The system can be easily affixed to any wall, creating a luminous mosaic that balances modern design with with a grand nod to traditional Japanese art.

A structure of warm and soft light enclosed within dual-toned wood, Light Form allows the user to create a desired lighting pattern by manipulating folding tiles embedded in each modular panel. Encased in rich dark European maple, each module either holds either a light made of electroluminescent film or a bare white surface that increases available light through reflection.
Light-Form has been designed for ILIDE – Italian Light Design and is on display from April 14-19 at the Word Join Center, as part of this year’s Milan Furniture Fair.
+ ILIDE"

light displays inside objects

an idea to think about....

Newsworthy Wall-Covering is Made Entirely of Up-cycled Newspaper | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

Newsworthy Wall-Covering is Made Entirely of Up-cycled Newspaper Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World: "Textile and product designer Lori Weitzner makes breaking news with this textural wall-covering made up of 100% up-cycled newspapers. Cleverly titled “Newsworthy“, the design is created by taking strips of recycled newspapers and weaving them together by hand. Once the covering is hung, the walls come to life with subtle yet eye-catching headlines that one can actually still read.


Weitzner’s Newsworthy textile is made through a technique similar to the one used to make wall-coverings from grass cloth. An interactive quality emerges when replacing grass cloth with the newsprint. To ensure good quality and durability, Newsworthy’s paper strips are woven with nylon thread and finished with a water-based topcoat that protects against yellowing and staining. Newsworthy measures 47 inches wide and runs $125 a yard (to the trade).
All of Lori Weitzner’s 2010 wall-covering collection is focused on a sustainable future. This year’s product line centers around green production principles, and each covering is made of natural fibers such as banana leaves and paper pulp.
+ Lori Weitzner Designs Inc."

Prefab Bar Made From Tubs

Prefab Bar Made From Tubs Lights Up the Night Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World: "Spotted on Arch Daily, this temporary bar was the winning design for the annual Oporto School of Architecture’s bar design competition in Portugal. Diogo Aguiar & Teresa Otto came up with the surprisingly simple but effective idea of building the walls with Ikea tubs and lighting them up with LED lights. The effect is great signage, fun design, and a building you can simply take apart and reuse for more domestic fare.
So before the party crashers holler that this isn’t green let us point a couple of things out. The tubs are a simple, low waste polypropylene plastic (#5) that is particularly easy to recycle. Ikea does not specify how much recycled material is in the manufacture of the tub but there is real cradle-to-cradle potential with this low-toxic material. For a light weight, high-profile, and lively looking bar this is good prefab design. The Architects website explains “A huge LED net was fixed behind the boxes, allowing the bar to dramatically change its appearance: by day a white abstract and closed volume; and by night a box of changing light following the DJ set.” The students were able to produce it from scratch in less than a week and most of the materials are reusable afterwards. I’ll drink to that.
+ Diogo Aguiar & Teresa Otto"

Human-Powered ‘Rolling Home’ Rotates as You Run Around « Dornob

Human-Powered ‘Rolling Home’ Rotates as You Run Around « Dornob: "Roll It is more than just a toy, though: it represents surprisingly subtle and complex approach to modular housing design, complete with its own ‘exercise room’ of sorts. By walking in the middle, a resident can rotate various ‘rooms’ into usable positions. Tables become chairs, chairs become beds, beds become walls and walls become desks, all depending upon the configuration, which is in turned all controlled by the user.
The hidden structure consists of a series of solid rings that provide circular support and the basis for a set of curved wooden interior and exterior shells. The inside is divided into three conceptual sections. The first third is a living room, bedroom and office space for sitting, sleeping and working; the last third is a kitchen and eating area (complete with a sink and seating but not much else for cooking); the space in between is sunk down and out – the area for walking the house into motion.

Ample circular side windows and slotted skylights (or are they floor lights?) along the center ‘treadmill’ allow in natural light and create controlled views, though some curtains would be a nice touch for those of us who like periodic privacy. Aside from these clear plastic openings and a few cushioned areas, the rest of the surfaces are covered in custom-curved plywood which has a nice, warm, natural look to it – though the outside could stand some more design work."

found objects

Found objects.....
milk crates painted white for consistancy!!??

Felt walls

Fashioning-Felt at Cooper-Hewitt yatzer Design Architecture Art Fashion +more: "Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum To Present “Fashioning Felt”
On view March 6–September 7, 2009

This exhibition will explore the varied new uses of felt—an ancient material, believed to be one of the earliest techniques for making textiles. Made by matting together wool fibers with humidity and friction, felting requires little technological expertise and is an extremely versatile material. The exhibition will begin with historic examples of felts, showcase innovations in handmade felts, and feature contemporary uses of industrial felt in a range of fields, including product design, fashion, architecture, and home furnishings. The exhibition is being organized by Susan Brown, assistant curator, Textiles.
Wosk Theater, Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, CA, 2007–08. Architect: Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design, Mehrdad Yazdani, Design Principal; Paul Gonzales, Project Manager; Jessica Yi, Project Architect; Hansol Park, AIA, Senior Designer; Jeremy Whitener, Project Designer. Felt walls designed and fabricated by Kathryn Walter of FELT Studio. Industrial felts (wool and recycled fibers).
Photo: Anne Garrison of Hewitt Garrison Photography"

recycled cardboard museum design

animals - Great Interior Design - Living Room,Bedroom,Kitchen,Bathroom,Furniture,Wall Design,Flooring,Lighting,Eco-friendly Interior,Car Interior,Apartment Interior,Villa Interior,Hotel Interior,Bar Interior,Cafe Interior, etc.:

Incredible Recycled Cardboard Interior Design of Smithfield Shop by Burnt Toast
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Peter Masters from Burnt Toast’s company was recently completed an eclectic and 100% recycled interior design for the British menswear label Smithfield shop in Manchester.

The Sustainable material as elements of digital-age styling created by recycling a mailing tubes and shipping boxes into incredible wall coverings, light fixtures, hanging sculptures, and clothing displays.
The design concept behind Brunt Toast’s interior is that the cardboard components can be reused in a variety of configurations without added materials or cost. Although the corrugated interior is intentionally minimal, but there was considerable planning behind these well chosen forms.
All the cardboard components are made from 100% recycled materials and are sourced from Romiley Board Mill. All of the wood used in the construction came from MRC, a Manchester wood recycling company.
Smithfeild’s store blog states that “the focus behind the shop, both interior and contents, is that to stand out from the crowd it shouldn’t cost the earth.”, I think everyone will agree with that and start to go earth-friendly in every way, Let’s go green dude…!

Tubular Recycled Cardboard Wall Covering Design

Brunt Toasts Interior Recycled Cardboard Design

Superuse.org: Where recycling meets design

Superuse.org: Where recycling meets design: "Pallet Tower, Burning Man 09
K9Collective posted 280 days ago
A monumental artifact designed to be an outpost and beacon. Made primarily from abandoned wooden shipping pallets, the structure takes commonly utilized items and reinterprets their structural nature to form a vertical habitat. A system of staggered tension rods compress the pallet sections to withstand vertical and lateral loads.

The tower is the work of architects Sergio Ramirez, Timothy Leung, and Brandin Roat.
Babel Tower 2009
Superused: Shipping pallets, reclaimed building materials.
San Francisco, CA"

Superuse.org: Where recycling meets design

Superuse.org: Where recycling meets design: "The mobile Peopleskitchen makes it possible to cook and eat in inaccessible locations-at first sight-to the public. The Peopleskitchen exist from a system of wooden auctioncrates, beams and canvas. It is put together with shelfs, belts and wedges. The auctioncrates serve aswell as storage of the cook- and food material. People that pass by and invitees are invited to cook and consume a meal together. Thus there a temporary meetingplace in uninhabited urban locations arises such as construction locations, construction wells or empty buildings. The intention is to make contrast tangible between the harsh character of the location and it social of together dining. Differently said, inaccessible places become shortly a public meeting space.
www.elmovermijs.com"