London Design Festival 09: Spanish designer Oscar Diaz has designed a set of red, green and blue vases that nest inside each other to appear a specific hue of purple.
The vases are hand-blown and will be exhibited as part of an exhibition called Eyes on Spanish Design at 100% Design in London in September.
Diaz also designed the Ink calendar in our previous story.
See all our stories about London Design Festival 2009 in our special category.
Here’s some more information from Diaz:
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Oscar Diaz Studio
RGB Vases – P242
Project Description:
The RGB vases combine the excellence of a process like glass blowing, refined through more than two thousand years, with references to the contemporary culture, were screens are extremely common, and its colors, based on the RGB color system.
The vase works as a three dimensional pixel were the RGB colors overlap to create a specific color which appears only once the vases are nested. Each vase is made using the values of red, green and blue that make up the specific purple color (P242). When the three vases are nested, the light passes through, and mixes the three colors so that the purple becomes evident.
A computer is used to calculate the exact amount of color that each vase must have in order to achieve the desired color.
The RGB vases will be exhibited as part of ” Eyes on Spanish Design” an exhibition about emerging Spanish designers organised by the ICEX together with the DDI which will take place at 100% Design during the London Design Festival next September.
Designer: Oscar Diaz
Name: RGB Vases ( P242-color)
Material: Hand blown glass. Limited edition.
Dimensions: Nested 526 x ∅ 325 mm
August 6th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
really great!
congratulations
August 6th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Bodkin – please email Oscar and tell him that this doesn’t work.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
wow..simple idea..
nice..like it…
August 6th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
That’s dope-now if it could just appear white or clear when it’s in the nested state.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
I like that purple: almost an amethyst. Glass insulators (very thick) used to be that colour in the olden days of the Canadian railways. Now that was really great.
August 7th, 2009 at 8:45 am
DONT WORRY OSCAR, BE SURE THAT ASDFGHJKL IS AN envious, GREEN EYED SPANISH MAN..
VERY GOOD WORK, OSCAR
August 7th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Subliminal!!!
August 7th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
absolutely brilliantly simple and beautiful, i love the form too
August 7th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
I don’t really see the need for the green cylinder if the main idea was creating the purple hue – the purple is a product of the blue and red vases.
However, the colors look nice together, especially in the final picture.
August 7th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
I like. But you can throw any kind of geometrical colored glass anything at me and I’ll bubble up with gleeful “ooooohh cooool” everywhere.
August 10th, 2009 at 9:36 am
i don’t usually leave vases nested together, it makes it difficult to get the flowers in. and i’m always being ‘encouraged’ by my partner to make sure the vases are always filled. i like the colour purple though.
and i’ve had another idea, maybe you could fill the vases with coloured liquid, stick the calender from the previous article in and voila! more colours and a calender at the same time.
also could you tell us what is special about the specific colour purple p242?
August 10th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Absolutely beautifull. Design and science can be a very good combination.
August 11th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Well done Bodkin, you lived up to your reputation 100%.
Jesus man, you really missed the point again.
Here be haters.
August 16th, 2009 at 11:23 am
bodking is obviously jealous again, and his idea of what is design is from last century. Move on or you thinking will be become soon extinguish.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Bodkin:
Why are you trying to rationalise your desire to write totally negative and totally unnecessary comments for their own sake?
Come on be honest, you’re just a hater trying to look like a (failed) critic.
Nobody cares if you can’t put flowers in a vase.
Nobody cares if you don’t normally stack them.
There is no need to write these things, but you do. This doesn’t make you intelligent or insightful – it simply places you in the category of ‘hater’.
Oscar was right in saying that you were simply jealous – and his refusal to sink to your level of commentary is an affirmation of your lack of intelligence. Thank God there are losers like me who enjoying arguing with numpties like you.
Sorry, but I’m just gonna push your dumb ol’ big red ’stop talking nonsense’ button.
….and tell you to capitalise your ‘i’ in future correspondence.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:27 am
my wife cares if you can’t put flowers in a vase and i care if calenders don’t tell you what day it is. is this really hate?
if hate is not liking someone trying to present something that does not work then i embrace your description. otherwise you may need to consult a dictionary.
i can’t wait to present my next architectural scheme to my clients on your basis of what makes a good design, i’m sure they’ll be most pleased when the roof leaks, the stairs don’t go up and the doors won’t open. at least it will look nice and we can all congratulate ourselves on how good the design was
September 1st, 2009 at 9:59 am
No Bodkin,
you can put flowers in this vase.
But that’s not what’s intersting about this vase.
Open your eyes for God’s sake.
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:14 am
…. and just to be a pain in the butt, I’d like to mention that the flat roof of Corbusier’s Villa Savoye leaked like buggery and drove the owners out.
It is however an architectural masterpiece.
Touche.