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Torn Disguised Lighting Looks Like Slits into Parallel LED Universe

Gizmodo US Edition — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:18:00 +0000

Designer Billy May has come up with his Torn Lighting concept as a discreet way of adding some light to your apartment. The installations conceal LED lights, and look like you’ve got some kind of weird space-time holes torn into your walls and leaking light into your room. Pretty neat, and a nice way of getting mood light from LEDs without the risk of you being dazzled by their exposed faces. Now if only there was a way to animate the walls to get a proper rippling effect… [Yanko Designs]

Your Fridge Gets the Forest Effect with Leaf Magnets

Gizmodo US Edition — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:30:00 +0000

Forget fridge magnet poetry— you know you only used it to make up smutty phrases anyway—stick these fridge leaves on that boring metal door, and you’d have your own indoor forest. Granted it would be much more “lovely” if it was made of real leaves not plastic ones, but I reckon they’ve got a charm all of their own. Designer Richard Hutten created them for office ceilings in a Rotterdam museum, and now they’re being commercialised. No word on pricing or availability yet. [Dezeen]