Hasta La Ideas

The London Design Festival is just about to kick off so it is time to give you a little preview of what to expect. We will be out and about to cover the most interesting stuff around, reaching from the young gunslingers to the old stagers.

For example there is Dream ball, a brand new soccer ball, which is made by recycling famine relief packaging. Since buying a soccer ball is a luxury for children living in third world countries, they usually make one out of ropes and trash. Aid provided from the UN and RED CROSS to people living the third world is usually packaged in boxes, but most of them contain medication, food and other fundamental commodities. Unplug design wants to give something that will put a smile on childrens faces, a toy that can give them hope and joy. They have redesigned relief packaging in a way that after it has served its primary purpose, it can turn into different types of balls depending on the size of the boxes. They are made by simply cutting by hand the perforated cardboard boxes and weaving the pieces.

The makers are Hwng kung chan, Jin song kyou, Lee hak su, Han min hyun and Jun jin of the Seoul based design studio Unplug . Showing as part of the Designersblock, the designers describe their design approach as follows: “Pull out the plug from the system and plug into the community.”

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