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June 10, 2010  |  Collection & Exhibitions
Taking a Hammer to Modern Design: Jordi Canudas’s Less Lamp

I love Jordi Canudas‘s Less Lamp, seen in the video above—a super playful and no-nonsense approach to the business of bringing light into a space. Assuming that the primary purpose of a light fixture is simply that of casting light, you can’t get more explicit than a bulb, a hanging cord, and a shade to cut the glare and to reflect and amplify the light.

February 25, 2010  |  Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Design
Signs of Life: The Life of the Exit Man

Freddie Yauner. Signs of Life. 2007-09. © Freddie Yauner

Signs of Life, the animated pictographic exit sign by British designer Freddie Yauner, takes the most banal everyday object—something that we see daily but rarely notice—and brings it to life.