Metropolis Next Generation Competition
Deadline:
Jan. 30, 2009
BraunPrize 2009
Deadline:
Jan. 31, 2009
A Better World by Design
November 7-9, 2008
Providence, Rhode Island
Design Miami
December 3-6, 2008
Miami, Florida
Designers' Open 2008
Designers' Open is one of the biggest design events in the east of Germany, including a creative fight club!
99 images
DESIGN PHILADELPHIA 2008
The fourth annual DesignPhiladelphia delivered brotherly love with exhibitions, gallery openings, and lectures.
62 images
LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 2008
Now in its sixth year, The London Design Festival offers an amazing array of design and celebration.213 images
FREEDESIGNDOM 2008
FreeDesigndom 2008 is the inaugural design and fashion event in the Netherlands.100 images
ManufRactured EXHIBITION
ManufRactured is a collection of art and design objects created from re-purposed manufactured goods. 40 images
VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM SUMMER WORKSHOPS
Participants live & work for 1 week w/ renowned designers, architects and artists at the Domaine de Boisbuchet.70 images
BICYCLE
A 100-day Dutch event anchored by an exhibition at the Designhuis in Eindhoven.100 images
FARNBOROUGH AIRSHOW 2008
The greatest display of aircraft on the planet. In Hampshire, UK.194 images
CERAMICS AND SOUND EXHIBITION
The works of artists and designers recently at the European Ceramic Workcenter (.ekwc).55 images
100 PERCENT DESIGN SHANGHAI
Designers Richard Hutten, Michael Young & Patrick Jouin join creative directors Tobias Wong & Aric Chen.61 images
HAMBURG HARLEY DAYS 2008
Bill Davidson and some 75,000 (custom) motorbikes.80 images
BERLIN DESIGN FESTIVAL 2008
"The Sky Is Not The Limit" at the Berlin Design Festival.64 images
NEW YORK DESIGN WEEK 2008
A hearty collection of the best the Design World has to offer.224 images
MAKER FAIRE 2008
A wonderland of populist & homespun tech, courtesy of Make Mag. In San Mateo, CA.48 images
Not too long ago, we reported on electrical engineer Scott Amron's pet project, Die Electric, where he experiments with strange objects that abstractly conserve power. His newest product is the Off light switch hook that grants extra utility to a normal light switch in order to add a real incentive for the user to keep it in the "off" position as often as possible. Lights on? Then you can't hang your undaroos here, sorry...
London Design Festival 2008
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Core77 visits NASA:
Designing for Space with NASA's Industrial Design Team, by Glen Jackson Taylor
DesignPhiladelphia 2008
Bryce Gibson photographs this year's festival of brotherly love
UGLY:
How Unorthodox Thinking Will Save Design, by Tad Toulis
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Comments
Really nice Scott! Excellent concept!
Cheers,
Raf.
All very well, but convention in many parts of the world (Australia & Malaysia for example - all Commonwealth countries?) is for DOWN to be ON.
Cute, but what happens when somebody brushes up against the wall or backs into it?...snap, no hook, no light switch.
Sad to say, I was just thinking of rewiring a couple of lightswitches to down. Efficiency takes many forms.... what about timesaving of turning on the light by hanging up your coat? why not take the next obvious step and combine the coatrack and eliminate the switch altogether!
I feel like it is mixed up. I come home and want to hang up my coat which could turn on the lights. When I grab my coat to leave the lights turn off. So I agree with Matthew, but I don't *always* have a coat to hang up so I'm not sure I'd want to get rid of the light switch altogether.