Indisposed

Before the news is completely old-hat, I thought I’d post some of the pictures from the InDisposed show. Apologies for the iPhone quality pics. For those not familiar, the show is composed of completely original pieces designed around the theme of disposability. Above is the “Dough-Dough” bird house by Jeff Miller. If you haven’t gotten it yet- it’s a solid, birdhouse-shaped, bird-feeder made out of left over bakery dough. Not sure I buy it as a viable means of disposal of leftover dough, but the concept and outcome are rather nice.

This new piece from Design Glut pretty much speaks for itself.

Takeshi Miyakawa’s piece, “Furniture ToGo” is a concept for Lego-like ToGo containers that can be used to build playful, trash-art, furniture.

Tobias Wong’s submission, like the majority of his work, is conceptually stunning; however lacking in the photographability.

“Rather than design an object to be disposed of, Wong decided to not make anything. Or rather, to create a conceptual piece by ‘unmaking’ something- a strategy that likewise reduces waste. Using a magazine as his medium, Wong collaborated with PAPER to ‘edit out’ a 10 page section and make it only available online. Converting the pages from print to digital format saved roughly 13 trees, decreasing PAPER’s footprint for the month.” – InDisposed

“Pleated Paper Can” by Paul Loebach and Chris Specce. It’s pretty much just a more iconic looking version of the paper-grocery-bag turned trash can that already sits under my sink; however, it’s still a really nice looking piece, and sustainably minded.

And finally. To end on a less conceptual note- Susan Tick, textile designer for Knoll, made these wonderful wall hangings out of plastic bags and waste wire material. I can’t wait to see Knoll turn these into upholstery.