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Celulight
lamps made out of mobile phone boxes.
Design Inserts, Experimenta design 99, Gare Marítima de Alcântara, Lisbon

During my design graduation I learned that in Portugal it used to be not worthy to cast steel moulds in order to produce plastic objects, since there was no market for all the objects you had to sell, in order to pay for the mould. Perspectives of exportation were weak as well.
Suddenly in 1998, the 3 portuguese mobile phone companies start competing with each other through expensive, designer-like, plastic containers for their cell phones: TMN - Mimo, Telecel - Vitamina and the Optimus - Boomrang.
People were throwing away tens of thousands of these objects every day.
For Design Inserts, at the ExperimentaDesign99 I recycled those colourful plastic containers as lamps, making two different models for each mobile phone company.

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