New Designers 08: Sit, a dog-shaped lamp with a glass shade for a head, is one of a range of designs based on 19th century forms by graduate designer Fiona Thomson.
Thomson, a graduate from the University of Brighton, presented the lamp and the two other products shown below at the New Designers showcase in London last month.
Here's some info from Thomson:
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My collection re-visits a selection of 19th century iconic forms, which i have adapted and utilized for modern 21st century products. Each piece embodies hidden technology, transforming an ornamental object into a functional and practical object. Or as i like to say intelligence beneath the elegance!
Cordless Candelabra: A superior and celebrated icon of traditional ornate lighting design is transformed into a cordless lamp when lifted from its charging dock.
Ode to Beethoven: These Mp3 speakers provide a mass-produced, popular piece of technology with a decorative alternative accessory. This product raises the visual status of what is normally regarded as a subordinate attachment.
Sit: Inspired by large animal statues found in grand 19th century homes, this light combines the lavishly luxurious with the familiar nodding dog. Through the re-appropriation of the stately dog statue, the user is provided with a loyal obedient companion.
i dont get it….
ha! i couldn’t have that lamp around my house – poppy petunia would go berserk
cool concept though
and the candlesticks are brilliant
Great. All the three of them. I smiled to myself.
Can someone please tell me how this piece of “design” makes this place a better world? How does it contribute to this society? How does it help the world evolve?
I just don’t see the use of this or most of the other stuff I see around here. It’s just pointless.
Why?
With the title “sit dog” i hope some more function for this dog, a stool for example as Magis did, not a crazy kitch lamp deja vu !!!
Beethoven was death and design critics are not blind !!!!
look at http://www.sandermulder.com
Ok Tom You use an old object and you put function inside (light , MP3 reader …) You dunnot need to be designer . Marcel Wanders introduced retro design but it’s innovative!!!
beethoven was actually deaf, not death (although he can be a little tedious)
nothing new here.
who said everything has to save the world? what wrong with a bit of good old fashioned humour? relax. this girl is funny and the designs work, the lights lights as well as any light, Beethoven’s bust was never more useful and the candles are class!
OK Emerson Beethoven is alive but design will be dead with this type of stuff
Sure Beethoven was deaf : i comment this product in a french blog : why not introduce MP3 in his ear?
I must have the Beethoven bust iPod dock!!
yeah. real classy.
i think the local asda is missing a girl at the checkout counter.
Could some one please tell me where they have seen beethoven used as an ipod dock before? If you can then go ahead and call these design unoriginal. In my opinion these designs are innovative and playful. Obviously you need to have a sense of humour to understand these objects… what more can i say??
pom pom pom design is dead!!!
Just horrible !
Hello,
Thank you to everyone for your varied comments, I seem to have really sparked up a debate. I appreciate the CONSTRUCTIVE feedback/ criticism but have no plans to work at Asda in the near future.
I will be exhibiting in October at Menagerie at The Jones exhibition, in association with Dezeen and i will also be at London Design Festival.
Please feel free to email me with any queries or questions you have regarding my products.
Thank you!
Fiona Thomson
the dog light does strike me as a rip off of the dog body speaker : http://www.gnr8.biz/product_info.php?products_id=626
just saying…
When i see the design history there some designers with humor , it’s design with a smile and there is an exhibition in Belgium.but there is a difference between humor and kitch.
When you blow on electric light as Marcel Wanders did, it’s humor but when you put your put your epod onBeethoven ‘s head it’s only kitch…
idea from the city of light : a lighting buddha singing rap
http://www.madeindesign.com/imgzoom-Buddha-Lampe-a-poser-Slide-reflpbud035a.jpg
i listen to Beethoven with my cup of coffee
http://www.core77.com/gallery/CERAMICS%20AND%20SOUND%20EXHIBITION/25.asp?current_image_number=53&album_id=66&page_no=3&context_id=1¤t_photo_id=7898
Cordless Candelabra…..kinda cool, i guess.
Not really a fan of the other 2 i must say.
nothing new here.
Ok with Joolzy !!! led candeladra
near product from Switzerland
http://images.google.fr/imgres?imgurl=http://deco-design.biz/wp-content/good-night-eileen.jpg&imgrefurl=http://deco-design.biz/tag/led/&h=396&w=500&sz=68&hl=fr&start=1&sig2=zUPhBd5E5zDH_zKbVWXwGA&um=1&usg=__mwj67ozKZ5kDZuDy6Av_1Hjy6-Y=&tbnid=7DoQlOh4XUFIlM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=130&ei=-QWzSL7AF4K60gW03fjtDw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpostfossil%2Bdesign%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dfr%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:fr:official
near product by Marcel Wanders
http://images.google.fr/imgres?imgurl=http://www.design-conscious.co.uk/mall/designconscious/customerimages/products/FL-BLO.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.design-conscious.co.uk/mall/designconscious/products/product-609881.stm&h=400&w=300&sz=44&hl=fr&start=37&sig2=4tyMlm45coTw9Kmgv6GjwQ&um=1&usg=__18zfAlZJvW6doWiX_Opfs0_4ZFE=&tbnid=V3H-yQv-0iJxZM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=93&ei=rAazSNyGJ4Xe0QXStO3lDw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwanders%2Blamp%26start%3D21%26ndsp%3D21%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dfr%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:fr:official%26sa%3DN
I don’t like that much the dog. The candle holder is beautiful and definitely the best from the other examples that some of the guys refer to. There is rarely uniqueness in design today. The Beethoven mp3 is brilliant. is my favorite by far. The connection between Beethoven and the music as is being used and transfered today is very successful.
watch this:
http://www.dalesioesantoro.it/ITA%20Content/wiw.htm
it’s the same product showcased by D’Alesio e Santoro 3 years ago at the salone satellite in Milano.
Those young designers full of papa’s money make me sick.
Kill that dog and do something useful.
TC.
So many haters. These blogs should be called “Let’s hate on things because we’re narrow minded with zero sense of humor and whiny twats who think everything they dont like is crap and serves no purpose.” I’d much rather have a Beethoven Mp3 speaker dock then some molded plastic piece of shit. Kill yourselves please.
the dog is pure copy of this one …
http://static.blogo.it/designerblog/italia-design_kit-_-di-dalesiosantoro/DAlesioSantoroWishYouWelcome.jpg