Gizmodo: milan design week

It's Not a TV, It's a Tati Lamp

Mark Wilson — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:00:00 EDT

Maybe it's just me, but I've been staring at this image for a while now, waiting for a baseball game or something to pop on the "screen."

Called the Tati Lamp, it's one of many of Ferruccio Laviani's designs being shown off during Milan Design Week 09. Completely black when off and white when on, this photo skews the lamp's scale in an enjoyably preposterous way. In reality, the Tati Lamp doesn't take up all the space of an old rear projection big screen. It fits right on the table. [designboom]

Eleven Design Makes Foosball Beautiful

Kit Eaton — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:42:39 EDT

I've gone off foosball since I had my ass royally kicked when playing with a bunch of friends at a music festival, but Eleven may turn my opinion around. Hand crafted by GRO design and TIM modeling, because they thought foosball was "lacking serious design attention in recent years", it's just gorgeous. The players are machined in brass and chrome, the table itself is meant to be a bit architectural, like real stadiums, and minimal to not distract from the game. It's on show at the upcoming Milan Design Week, 16th to 21st April, and tragically it's just a working model. [Eleventhegame via Uberreview]

Modal Water Speaker Sure is Purdy

Adam Frucci — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:10:00 EST

Now this is one pretty speaker. The Modal Water Speaker, designed by Kunihiro Tsuji, is supposed to represent the human body's composition of 70% water. Whatever, dude, it looks pretty sweet. How it sounds is another matter entirely, but we'll give ol' Tsuji the benefit of the doubt on that one.

Look for this at Milan's design week, that is if you're going to be there rather than reading blogs in your underpants. Hit the jump for a giant pic.

–Adam Frucci

Modal Water Speakers [MoCo Loco]