Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Simple modular and Abstract...could this be post-modern?
a closer look at the previous.
one of the more wonderful modernist ideals was modularity. It's a post industrial ideal to be able to manufacture everything cheaply and quickly. this allowed Crystal palace in London to be built in record time but it was the modernists who grappled with finding the true aesthetic of manufactured and modular....it's just a shame it cost the earth but maybe in some small twist of fate the thing which can help us now is once again modularity with a greener hand? I don't know maybe?
I think this is wonderfully playful. I wonder how this material really would perform in the long run? I guess in my mind cardboard is a really temporary thing. but maybe I'm just full of preconceived notions. after all it is lightweight, strong, fully recycled or recyclable...and dare I say it can be beautiful too.
another cardboard bookshelves I think this could be MDF but I'm not sure.
cardboard tubes make interesting shelves

Monday, 24 January 2011


I Love the way there is a real charm about the simplicity of this . It gets you to focus maybe on the details of an object that maybe you never even looked twice at before.