Joe Colombo is dead as a doornail
December 1, 2004
Here is the amazingly efficient Joe Colombo designed mini-kitchen. R.vT. tipped me to him a few days ago as I lamented giving up my superflous spoon collection. As my most informative blog-reader to date, R noted that Joe Colombo designed the Alitalia tableware in 1970.
Apparently the ‘MINI-KITCHEN’ designed in the year of my birth and produced in the year of my brother’s birth contains ‘all the electrical appliances and necessary features one needs to cook for and accommodate six people, in just one-half of a cubic meter’.
Well, both the rice-maker and the staff-mixer are nowhere to be seen and I don’t see where one would stow them in the mini-kitchen, but the MK remains an inspiration. Joe Colombo died on his 41st birthday of heart failure.
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Wired Juice
November 30, 2004
Who will design tomorrow’s Information Products and Services? It seems that I will.
My good friends at the Centre for Knowledege Societies in Bangalore, India are not afraid of connecting this image of a juice vendor to the concept of wiring up the street. The Nomadic Banquet morphogenetic meme is breeding since DoorsEast2!
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Recycle and Re-Use your Superfluous Spoon Collection
November 26, 2004
I just can’t do it. I can’t give away my superfluous spoon collection and my small liquid container collection. I know the rules for our Jewish-Occitanian (SinterKlaas) holiday require us to give presents that we have culled from our closets, recycled and re-used, but I just can’t part with these beauties. No one else could possibly get as much joy from this collection as I do. Would anyone else carry a rainbow of plastic icecream spoons around with them for 6 months hoping to brighten an adhoc picnic?
Certainly considering the developing food-related projects that I am working on, owning these objects is justifiable.
Once I shared my spork with a friend and upon completing his icecream he threw his spork away! How could anyone confuse a spork with trash?
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