Notes Design

For those of you who aren't slaving away in the kitchen today, check out these clips of "future kitchens." The first two were produced in the 1950s; the last, a GE piece, seems to be from a more recent decade. Call us crazy but we think the '50s ones look way better.

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Providing an informative, interactive, and completely engaging exhibition at the Eco City Lab pavilion was Debra Solomon's Lucky Mi Fortune Cooking, a mobile snack wagon (well, pretty mobile) transforming food flows (waste) to delicious in-situ snacks (kimchi...yum!)

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One of the most narrative installations in the Eco City Lab pavilion of the Saint -Étienne Design Biennale 2008 was Franççois Jégou's Sustainable Everyday installation--a series of small LCD screens with an array of personal stories displayed on each. Here's François:

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The video above is Réservoir Dog, by Charles Mazé. You could hear this thing barking and squeaking throughout the Bâtiment 335 pavillion, but until you turned the corner and looked down, you had no idea the surprise awaiting you. "My kid could've done that"? Well, I suppose she could have. And perhaps with less racket too. Still, this was one of the more delightful pieces in the entire Biennale.

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The video above is Réservoir Dog, by Charles Mazé. You could hear this thing barking and squeaking throughout the Bâtiment 335 pavillion, but until you turned the corner and looked down, you had no idea the surprise awaiting you. "My kid could've done that"? Well, I suppose she could have. And perhaps with less racket too. Still, this was one of the more delightful pieces in the entire Biennale.

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Architect Ben Sato exhibited his multipurpose chair 'four' at Design Tide Tokyo, the chair can be used in 4 different configurations by rotating it to the desired side.

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