PearApp ceramic lamp by gt_2P

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'Dragonfly.MGX by WertelOberfell-Platform

The Munich and London based designers of WertelOberfell-Platform created this pendant light for Belgian manufacturer .MGX. The ‘Dragonfly.MGX’ draws its inspiration from the curved honeycomb structure of insect eyes and their three dimensional array of light emitting cells.

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'Shine' by Geoffrey Mann, 2010, photo by Nick Moss

Objects made from sound waves and movements, shapes that seamlessly morph and merge with each other and new forms that self-generate; the Crafts Council launches ‘Lab Craft – Digital adventures in contemporary craft’, a new touring exhibition opening at the Turnpike Gallery in Greater Manchester on 30 October.

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'Six-Forty by Four-Eighty' by Zigelbaum + Coelho

MIT Media Lab research students and self-avowed nerds Jamie Zigelbaum and Marcelo Coehlo have presented a compelling light installation at this year’s Design Miami Basel, called ‘Six-Forty by Four-Eighty’. Working at the interface between design and digital technology, the duo, one of four recipients of the show’s W Hotels Designers of the Future Awards, have created a modular, interactive lighting system that encourages the user to touch, move, compose and recompose its constituent parts to create a rich visual drama.

'Six-Forty by Four-Eighty' by Zigelbaum + Coelho

Based on the idea of the pixel, the installation features 220 magnetic tiles, which, when moved, change colour. Dynamic light patterns across multiple pixels can be produced by simply pointing at them. Most fascinating of all though is the way that they can communicate with each other via the user: touching two of the tiles at the same time allows a current to pass through the person’s skin, which has a synchronising effect. Never was nerdiness so beautiful.

'Six-Forty by Four-Eighty' by Zigelbaum + Coelho

'Six-Forty by Four-Eighty' by Zigelbaum + Coelho

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