Hasta La Ideas

Itay Laniado has a totally bizarre project that I kind of love: “extracting genetic features out of family pictures and using them as a starting point for product development.” What? Really?

I’m not really sure what this means or how the designer chose what to “extract,” but that’s all ok. The end result—glueless birch furniture tensioned by colored string—is pretty interesting, and it’s refreshing to see a process that isn’t justified every step of the way.

One more after the jump.

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