Some shots from the Design And The Elastic Mind Show at MOMA in NYC. Both the phones and Plumen bulb concept made it into the show alongside what looks like a fascinating and thought provoking collection.
Thanks Glen Jackson Taylor for the images
Technology is often at its best when it’s invisible. That’s why we’re so keen on these solar roof tiles that can be laid in by any tiler to fit neatly into any standard pitched roof. Here’s a UK company offering them and an old story we spotted on the BBC about a guy generating so much with his solar roof tiles that he’s selling electricity back to the national grid.
The HULGER SALE is now on
Design and the Elastic Mind at MOMA New York runs from February 24–May 12 and features amongst other things Hulger’s Plumen CFL and a selection of our phone designs. The show is curated by the illustrious Paola Antonelli
From the show’s synopsis:
In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance. One of design’s most fundamental tasks is to stand between revolutions and life, and to help people deal with change.
Here are some photos
Light Drop by Rafael Morgan (thanks Malthe)
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Hulger isn’t into arms in general but we found these strangely attractive. Antonio Riello explains of his Ladies Weapons:
“In 1998 I decided to focus my artistic research mainly about a “fashion-fiction” visual story regarding an old passion of mine: weapons - objects full of symbolic senses. I want to mix, in an artistic way, traditional ‘female stuff’ like fashion with very traditional ‘male stuff’ like guns. It consists in a restyling of real military weapons into fashion items for ladies”.
Whilst we’re generally unimpressed by people copying the Hulger idea, occasionally we spot things we like. Here’s one from Bmeres that installs Bluetooth tech into an old Russian handset, one with a mouthpiece that seems to have inspired lord Vadar’s mask design.
We like the Wenge Series by Jason Linde.
We like this idea
