Celulight, Miguel Soares 1999

Celulight, 1999
cell phone boxes, lights.
Design Inserts, Experimenta design 99, Gare Marítima de Alcântara, Lisbon

During my design graduation I learned that in Portugal it used to be not worthy to cast steel moulds in order to produce plastic objects, since
there was no market for all the objects you had to sell, in order to pay for the mould. Perspectives of exportation were weak as well.
Suddenly in 1998, the 3 portuguese mobile phone companies start competing with each other through expensive, designer-like, plastic
containers for their cell phones: TMN - Mimo, Telecel - Vitamina and the Optimus - Boomrang.
People were throwing away tens of thousands of these objects every day.
For Design Inserts, at the ExperimentaDesign99 I recycled those colourful plastic containers as lamps, making two different models for each
mobile phone company.
The audio used in this clip is Negativland's "A nice place to live" from the album "Points", 1981.
This is not a Negativland videoclip!

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Film & Animation

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[inliner4ever]

what the hell is the point of this, its just weird looking lights