designboom ICFF sampler  

Thanks for posting that--
I love the Herman Miller residential line, and the Takumi Shimamura umbrella.
(I'm left wondering, though-- what IS it about Karim Rashid, that makes me want to punch him?)

Practical, Gimmicks &
A whole lotta whimsy. Thanks SDR
Highlights for me
glass knives-modern primitivism
Coin couch-35,000 welds, ouch! Someone had to do it.
Cube jigger
Gooey Duck lamp
Herman Millers Aria desk
David Truebridge
Excel floorlamp
One concern is nanotech. I realise the positives that this technology will spring forth. I'm concern about the potential for a new pollution it could create. Any other perspectives on this?

Some interestiung things
but very few items that will sell successfully.

nanotech
A colleague of mine was consulting a project where nanotech (some kind of silver component) was infused with under-armour type workout clothing to facilitate blood flow.
Perhaps a bit off topic, but may be beneficial to the senior community in maintaining physical fitness?
Despite the significant manufacturing cost savings and the ideal of having every "atom" in the right place, concerns lie with the use of synthetic/man made chemicals that require the use of another man made chemical to be created.
Definitely interesting, to say the least.

Nice we also could have a quick visit to the fair too!
Thanks SDR,
Oh? Fairs! We need a complete review on the subject someday!
The fair is very large, to say huge, with lots of stands.
So each selection could be as subjective as each selector.
I also funded interesting:
The Cube jigger
Takumi Shimamura umbrella
Herman Millers Aria desk
This wallpaper http://www.tracykendall.com
And here is another link:
ICFF day2 http://mocoloco.com/archives/005492.php#more
ICFF day1
and good comments,
Try to read the comments in the link below, very interesting, and think could fit almost in every fair(of this kind), any year, mix of related-designers attendees, non-related-design attendees, exhibitors and ex-exhibitors.
http://mocoloco.com/archives/005491.php

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Oops, look at this:
http://www.desfurniture.com/

Nano pollution is...
significant and it will likely wind up killing millions over the next century, just as macro and micro pollutions reputedly did in the past two centuries.
Humanity has a poor track record of avoiding new forms of pollution from new technologies before they happen. Humanity, its firm incentive systems and its sticky institutional and regulatory frameworks seem predisposed to waiting for mountains of evidence of evidence of lethality of pollution, rather than preventing such pollution before hand.
The most obvious form of nano pollution will be the engineering of objects so small that our bodies, based on present evolution-derived defenses, cannot protect ourselves from them. Simplest case? The particle gets past my nose hairs.
This is in principle, no different than what has happened with any other new technology.
We learned to use fire and heat as technologies and quickly discovered that our skins had not "evolved" to protect us from burns. We got (and still get) horrible burns. I suppose practically every person on the planet has been burned one time or another.
We learned to mine and use coal and discovered that our nose hairs were not quite up to the task of filtering out coal dust. We got black lung. Literally millions suffered the lethal effects of coal pollution.
We learned to inhale nicotine for stimulation and learned that our lungs couldn't handle the tar. They killed my mother with that one. They addicted her and knowingly murdered her with that one, because they knew here evolutionary defenses against nicotine just weren't very good.
We learned to split the atom for energy and destruction and found our skins just did not protect us from the radiation emissions. Millions dead.
We developed religious technologies and found that our psyches had not evolved quite far enough to protect us from the cognitive dissonance that yielded a temptation to run off and slaughter folks who believed in different religious technologies. Billions dead over the centuries and we are still killing ourselves with this one.
Nano technology?
Oh my, I would guess a lot of us are already dying from the stuff. Every consumer electronic it seems is suffused with nano particles now. I sincerely doubt they are all staying put inside the personal digital devices. In turn, I doubt my nose hairs can filter them.
Look for millions to die from nano technology before it is even "empirically" verified.
Wise, pre-emptive choice regarding technology seems not to be part of our evolutionary legacy yet.

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I love that des furniture, gustavo. I think I saw the tall bookcase at a local design store several years ago, maybe in standard plywood ?