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.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
August 21st, 2008 at 12:44 pm
i dont get it….
August 21st, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Much Better than the girl with a bulb up her vagina!
August 21st, 2008 at 1:45 pm
ha! i couldn’t have that lamp around my house - poppy petunia would go berserk
cool concept though
and the candlesticks are brilliant
August 21st, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Great. All the three of them. I smiled to myself.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:45 pm
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.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Why?
August 21st, 2008 at 6:05 pm
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 !!!!
August 21st, 2008 at 6:06 pm
look at http://www.sandermulder.com
August 21st, 2008 at 8:26 pm
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!!!
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:17 am
beethoven was actually deaf, not death (although he can be a little tedious)
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:27 am
nothing new here.
August 22nd, 2008 at 4:58 am
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!
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:03 am
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?
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:14 am
I must have the Beethoven bust iPod dock!!
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:22 am
yeah. real classy.
i think the local asda is missing a girl at the checkout counter.
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:42 am
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??
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:15 am
pom pom pom design is dead!!!
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:09 am
Just horrible !
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:14 pm
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
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:31 pm
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…
August 24th, 2008 at 5:11 am
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…
August 24th, 2008 at 11:00 am
idea from the city of light : a lighting buddha singing rap
http://www.madeindesign.com/imgzoom-Buddha-Lampe-a-poser-Slide-reflpbud035a.jpg
August 24th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
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
August 25th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Cordless Candelabra…..kinda cool, i guess.
Not really a fan of the other 2 i must say.
nothing new here.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Ok with Joolzy !!! led candeladra
August 25th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
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
August 25th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
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
August 28th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
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.
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:39 pm
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.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Those young designers full of papa’s money make me sick.
Kill that dog and do something useful.
TC.