Design Inserts – Experimenta design 99, Gare Marítima de Alcântara, Lisbon

1999.Sep

Design Inserts, Experimenta design 99
curated by Marina Gomes Alexandre & Marco Sousa Santos

September 15 > October 05, 1999
Gare Marítima de Alcântara
Lisbon, Portugal

exhibited works: Celulight

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Celulight

1999.Sep

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variable dimentions
1999
mobile phone boxes, lamps, blasts, cables, etc.

lamps made out of mobile phone boxes.
made for 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,
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.

celulight_brancusi-01

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