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Here is the optimal solution after a house party… Garbage Lamp by the student Peter Castellucci, an efficient and creative way to illuminate and pollute less, all at once.

[via Core77]

I don’t like wearing watches (and am thus often late!), but I really like this one: LED Watch is simple, clear and elegant.

Designed by the Japanese Hiranao Tsuboi and prized at the Tokyo Design Week 2008, this digital gem is perfectly functional and will soon be on the production line, according to the Japanese studio. What do you think?

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[via Inspire me, now!]

Translated by Silvia – The objective that designer Oskar Daniel fixed for himself was to create a “wall of sound” to enjoy the soundtrack of a good movie and his favourite music: he got exceptional results.

The young Swedish talent (class of 1983) conceived HIVE, a compact and modular sound system made up of hexagonal panels for acoustic diffusion, decidedly geometric and inspired by bee’s nests.

More images and details in the link below.

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Translated by Silvia – Rise and Sigh, a collection of sheets that leave on our skin intriguing and intimate messages about the night we just spent at the hotel is the amusing and tantalizing suggestion made by Martina Carpelan (class of 1979).

Presented for the Helsinki Hotel project, the young Finnish designer has literally transformed the candid, but often anonymous, hotel sheets into typographical models that will temporarily stamp phrases on our skin according to where and in what position in the bed we spent the night.

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