As I’m flying to Amsterdam for a few days tomorrow, I had to literally squeeze my london design festival experience in 2 days. Yesterday was dedicated to designersblock and today was 100%design at Earl’s Court. Some nice finds there, still too many tiles, bathroom fixtures and lighting design, and not much interaction design but there were a few nice things and some weird ones too.
Tomoaki Yanagisawa, former RCA student I met a few years ago in L.A. presented his fabulous project Luminos.
“Luminos are bricks in darkness. Like a candle needs a fire to light it up, Luminos, which have light sensors and LEDs, need light to turn the LEDs on.
This is a simple and intuitive interaction yet it has the possibility of complexity of a chain reaction created by configurations of Luminos like dominoes and bricks.”
Cassi Hill presented a series of fabric life-like lamps that you can wrap up around your apartment.
Yeon Juyang designed some interesting looking lamps, I can’t feeling there could be more to them, just not sure what.
And finally I had the great pleasure of seeing one of the few academics I truly admire, Jonathan Chapman talk about emotionally sustainable design in product lifecycle, at the 100%sustainable booth.
One strange thing I noticed is that several exhibitors were members of a so-called Anti copying in design association, clearly showing that the open-source phenomenon is not making any headway in product design yet.