FLATPACK LIGHTS

A continuos challenge for designers worldwide is to create nice products which performs and look great but are eighter stackable or have a minimal size during transportation.

With this aim the Netherland based Studio Mango unvealed two amazing pieces of lighting design: the Spring Lamp, a coiled length of rubber which when hung it unfolds itself like a full bell shade, and the Lygo Lamb, basically a DiY lamp made of 144 lego-like curved bricks. Both -when not assembled- are small enough to be inserted in a letter box.

Simple, smart, playfull... genius.

EYE LISTENING

Repositories of stories and its enriching emotions, the covers, that accomodate the existing panoply of musical genres, are the motto for this exibition. The focus is made on album covers that often conquer our memory even when music slightly reached our ears.

Major graphic disasters or deified, unduly ignored or zeitgeists, covers provide listening with a touch and an image, with the act of collection and share. From cover to cover, going thru all the stories (and histories), Cãoceito + Burdman wrote a new one to the sound of a song that repeats: I need nothing, I’ve everything I need.

Video shot by Moopie.

LA ISLA BONITA

If you're looking for one reason to go to Hungary the Sziget Festival is defenitely a good call. Grab your sunglasses, jump on a plane and just follow these 9 simple rules.

Filmed & editied by Marco Prestini.

Produced by Flash Factory.

Music:

intro from the movie the beach

Rule no. 1 Crystal Castles

Rule no. 2 Emmecosta

Rule no. 5 Slivovitz

Rule no. 6 Bloody Beetroots DC77

Rule no. 8 The National

INTO THE WILD

Living in the woods has never been so styish. The XXS mini-house by recognized architect Magnus Ståhl for swedish company Next House may be the most beautiful place to hide from the world.

The total area of XXS is 15 sqm with a 10 sqm terrace of exclusive Merbau wood. The pure-style lines create a modern design and a close-to-nature house. The entrance from the terrace has a large window and glass door section which creates both light and space. The façade is clad in z-panel of three different widths and painted in a black hue with Falu rödfärg.

STUDIO LIFE

By choosing a studio that measures just 12 feet by 7 feet, Felice Cohen can afford to live in Manhattan's Upper West Side where apartments rent for an average of $3,600 per month. She pays just over $700 for her 90-square-foot microstudio. After a bit of adjustment she now loves living smaller, simpler and cozier.

“I think a lot of people have a lot of space that they’re not using. I grew up in a place where my bedroom was 17 feet by 17 feet with two walk-in closets that combined where almost the size of this apartment that when I go home now I go in the closet just to feel like I’m back in New York.”

You can find more about felice's book on whatpapatoldme.com