spectacular lighting ideas

just browsing through dornob's blog again and stumbled across this new modular lighting system that is really eyecatching and steps away from that regular office fluorescence that is so painful to deal with you just block it out.

this entry led me to some other related articles with respect to lighting and i fell inlove with this idea of peel away lighting panels that provide ambient light in a room. such a brilliant idea for an intimate space. take a look at the pictures below to see what i mean.

some other design spots of interest...

two other blogs/design mags that i find insteresting to check out daily.

there are always some great ideas

boing boing

and

design boom

the persistence of memory

for assignment one i chose to work on salvador dali's the persistence of memory

i did a poster mash up replacing the melting analog clocks with digital ones.

i call it the persistence of digital memory

product family tree

my chosen product was the gaming console and i can honestly say this was one of the most enjoyable projects i've done yet.

i hope you all find it interesting

City of Sydney going 100% green in 20 years?

according to this radio interview i just listened to, the City of Sydney has big plans ahead. They intend on producing 100% of their energy locally in the next 20 years. with energy being transferred in from as far away as the Hunter region right now i find this very hard to believe.

i sure hope its doable as the price of energy is about to go up again in a month or two.

have a listen here and see what you think

Core77: design magazine

for those curious to learn a little more about what industrial designers worldwide are putting their minds to, and whats out there to read worth reading, maybe you're interested in some new emerging technologies, I definitely recommend core77 as a top notch design magazine that really covers it all. it also has plenty of job listings around the world for those looking for some work or just to see where you might end up working when all the hard work at uni is over.

i suggest you check it out here...

Dornob Designs - Double Your Pleasure: Two-Headed Handheld Rain Shower

From a Former Industrial Design student at UNSW, I happened to stumble across Tom Baker's Dual headed shower design. This is a sleek and elegant design that allows the user to remove the detachable head to wet localised areas of the body whilst still remaining under a nice warm flow of water the whole time.