In an effort to investigate design and push creative methodologies we hacked existing dollar store items, designing, sketching and building a variety of personal and home goods. All our materials were acquired at the dollar store. Our goal was simple; design by hacking cheaply made plastic junk, and hopefully, manipulating some irony and employing some criticality in an otherwise humorless and often anonymous world of product.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
lindsay aucoin
kid's swim goggles into jewelry
cheese grater lamp
a lovely snorkelabra
head of toothbrush becomes keyboard cleaner
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I love everything! But "Snorkelabra" made me laugh outloud!
I totally love the results of this exercise. This relates very well to the real world of design. It's easy to pull out all the stops for a cool client whose product you love. But in the real world, you don't get to choose the client. So when the pill box manufacturer comes calling...
just wanted to say love the ideas. love the whole project. luh-hove the cheese grater lamp. went to my nearest dollar store today hoping to find similar goodies... found only a large collection of crap. Even the cheese graters were sub-par. I suppose this means I don't have the eye for it but thanks for sharing the inspiration!
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The cheese grater lamp is fantastic. It's all really great but I love the lamp. Do you have any pictures of it being lit in the dark? Very nicely done.
I too, build these things and shop at dollarstores for tons of things.
a. There are nice shower curtains to "build" in layers using cutouts or making your own out of designs for an artistic bathroom: stencils of animals, frogs, use a sponge and cut it out, make paint on the wall or wallpaper border to match.
b. build candles for the wall (got the idea from a roommate) buy jelly jars, clear spray paint, small tea lights, twist copper or aluminum wire and hang up as a lamp that's safe and candle lit in a hallway.
c. using odds and ends from tools section and arts section you can build towel racks, suspension materials for curtains, etc. ...
i LOVE the dollarstore and curated part of a 40,000 item e-commerce checkout dollarstore (dollarchimp.com).
I love these ideas on this page. Especially the table made out of serving trays. How cute!
24 comments:
I love everything! But "Snorkelabra" made me laugh outloud!
Clever and resourceful: great job all 'round!
I totally love the results of this exercise. This relates very well to the real world of design. It's easy to pull out all the stops for a cool client whose product you love. But in the real world, you don't get to choose the client. So when the pill box manufacturer comes calling...
Great job everyone!
snorkelabra... brilliant!
Cool I'll also try to clean my laptop keyboard. :)
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Genius, and yet so simple.
just wanted to say love the ideas. love the whole project. luh-hove the cheese grater lamp. went to my nearest dollar store today hoping to find similar goodies... found only a large collection of crap. Even the cheese graters were sub-par. I suppose this means I don't have the eye for it but thanks for sharing the inspiration!
Those swim goggle jewelry pieces are brilliant. I think I've got at least 3 broken pairs of those lying around house. I'll have to try this.
Thanks!
work well for balls ?
Simply superb !
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i really like the cheese grater lamp. I bet it looks cool in the dark. Can you upload a picture of that?
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This was fabulous and I've got to admit that I'd use most of that!
seen on stumbleupon!
Thats a very interesting post. I have been inspired. Thanks.
That is very interesting and inspiring ideas, really nice work
great post, just wanted to let you know I have bookmarked your site and will visit again.
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hello, I am going to try and create something cheese grater lamp-esque myself but yours will probably win in the category of awesome, for sure!!!!
The cheese grater lamp is fantastic. It's all really great but I love the lamp. Do you have any pictures of it being lit in the dark? Very nicely done.
The sponge wrist-pads made me laugh :)!
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I love the cheese grater lamp
The toothbrush as keyboard cleaner was lame- that's a hint from Heloise from the paper! Otherwise, pretty coll stuff.
This is a nice dollar store item. I've never seen a cute but definitely useful item like this:-)
I too, build these things and shop at dollarstores for tons of things.
a. There are nice shower curtains to "build" in layers using cutouts or making your own out of designs for an artistic bathroom: stencils of animals, frogs, use a sponge and cut it out, make paint on the wall or wallpaper border to match.
b. build candles for the wall (got the idea from a roommate) buy jelly jars, clear spray paint, small tea lights, twist copper or aluminum wire and hang up as a lamp that's safe and candle lit in a hallway.
c. using odds and ends from tools section and arts section you can build towel racks, suspension materials for curtains, etc. ...
i LOVE the dollarstore and curated part of a 40,000 item e-commerce checkout dollarstore (dollarchimp.com).
I love these ideas on this page. Especially the table made out of serving trays. How cute!
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