It's in the presentation

So, Japanese people are really out there in my opinion. So I think they could really go both ways, you either love them, or you hate them. Japan is big on design and they come out with some pretty crazy stuff. You can either take it or leave it.

Let's talk about Nendo, a Tokyo based company who has recently opened an exhibition at the Friedman Benda Gallery in New York reports Core77. The company created some chairs called cabbage chairs, I'm assuming cause they have a lot of layers... they look pretty cool yes; but, for the exhibition this company decided to do something different.

Suspended Cords fall around the room giving it a ghostly feel to the whole area. The cords are used to echo the pleated texture of the chairs which are placed around the room. The chairs themselves are made out of pleated paper which is produced in large quantities to assist in the making of pleated fabric but is then thrown away. Nendo took that paper and recycled it to be used productively rather than just becoming waste. Now here is someone that is looking out for our environment.

Books

As a continuation of one of my other posts about libraries becoming obsolete I decided to write this! Well as I a still quite upset that bookstores are at a decline when I ran into this article on Core77 I had to post it.
Libraries know that with the rise of the Internet people are much less likely to visit a library. So, what do you do when you wanna seem more attractive, you redesign. Oh and what a design!
Kansas City public library and Cardiff library in the UK have come out guns flaring. I personally think it's quite clever to have made the outside of your library into books... kinda straight to the point huh.

Pretentious Pricks

So, of course everyone knows that the world is in Crisis... If you don't, you need to start going to class... or turn on your television! Or well... you could be Amish I guess... Anyway, since the world is in a crisis state right everyone is looking for ways that they can help. You can do volunteer work, you can donate money, etc... But, some people believe that they are doing enough as it is, just by doing their regular duties, hence:

Core 77 put up this poster that they found online. Well I'm trying to understand both sides of the situation, well of course the world needs more people to help others that are less fortunate. But, can people use design as a way to help with the crisis. I use to see AD campaigns about the environmental issues that we face, but now that I think of it, I don't think I've come across those in a while.

Oh God, Can you hear me now?

I just love how kookie people can be in the design world; it really shows of a persons creativity. So apparently Ricardo Garza Marcos makes lamps, really... interesting lamps. And you know who showcases really interesting stuff? Core 77.

So imagine you've done something bad and your parents come in the room and they are yelling at you about something or other and well, you want to get out of being punished. I think the Jesus lamp is the thing for you! Just picture it sitting in your living room your parents just screaming, sudden silence, and then all you have to do is give an innocent smile bat your eyes a bit, look up and say "But I was here by midnight..." and then BOMB you turn on the Jesus lamp and a halo shines from atop your head! Hahaha!!! my parents would get a kick out of it, probably let me off.

Caution: The innocent face, really only works if you're a girl.