Dutch Design Week: designer Anke Weiss has created a series of lights from used food and drink packaging.
Weiss traces the patterns and text on the packaging with hundreds of pin-pricks, which allow the light to shine through.
The lights were exhibited at Eat Drink Design in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week last month.
Update 20/11/07: Weiss has just sent us some further information about the project. Here it is:
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The packaging lights show the transformation of a mass-product into a unique item. Through individual adaptation, the packaging of products like juice, cookies or soap gain a new purpose. The packaging (the purpose of which is to support the sale of its contents) becomes a product itself. It survives the point where it usually turns into garbage.
Elements used in the layout of the packaging which call upon the emotions and desires of the consumer are isolated, and selected parts of the graphics are highlighted. Symbols, words and the structure of the designs make use of deeply rooted spiritual feelings and subconscious longings. The packaging exceeds its original context and gains the radiance of a shrine or icon.
For me making something equals thinking about something. I not only see my pieces as being functional but also as a medium for critical exploration and analysis – a visual form of communication.
I wish to challenge the perception of today’s products and technologies, exploring how I as a visual communicator can be part of a political, environmental and social debate.
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
November 15th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Love this.
November 16th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
beautiful
November 16th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Beautiful!
November 16th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
commercial zen.
November 17th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
moooi
November 17th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
the contemporary shiny consumer’s world in a different light! alle achtung.
November 17th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
What a fantastic use of so called “waste”! Go urban ore!
November 18th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Anke, ik ben onder de indruk! Super product
November 19th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Anky, kijk nu toch anders naar mijn pak granaatappelsap!
Erg mooi.
November 19th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
amazing effect with minimal effort n much thinking!
sUPERB!
November 19th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Geweldig!
November 22nd, 2007 at 10:27 pm
i am really proud about finding designer creating luxury beautiful sparkling effect in our daily life ustensils what a pleasure during shopping
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:56 am
Great stuff!
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:58 am
Divine!
November 23rd, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Hi Anke, bin beeindruckt! Gibt es so etwas bald in den Regalen zu kaufen? Wäre cool!
November 27th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
she stole the idea from an argentine artist luis teran…
November 28th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Luckily there are many people with good ideas
on the planet.
You are a bit fast shouting about stealing.
There are more artists around who are concerned
about the same things.
(and that is a positive thing- . . .ever heard of the term ‘generation’ ?)
Can’t google any images of this luis by the way. . .
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:55 am
Toll!!!
Weiter so
January 4th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Anke, super!! Eine tolle , kreative Idee!
January 30th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Nice Idea!
March 4th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Superb, Marvellous, excellent etc, etc… No matter what I say in appreciation but my words may not match the beauty of the work that has been displayed, its like a view of a life time
I would love to share such creative ideas which can provide another boom to this industry.
Thanks and Best wishes
Harry Bradman.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:35 am
smart use of this packages!
November 4th, 2008 at 9:00 am
so magical! i love it!