Design Finds: 09/25/07

The Design Finds keep piling up:

• Hugo Tillman interviewed Chinese artists, then photographed them in 3-D interpretations of their psyche (top and bottom left images, via BB-Blog).
• Sika Designs combines modern patterns with traditional West African prints (via Clothes-pin).
• Alexander Lervik designed these tree-shaped streetlights with over 2000 meters of fiber optic cable. They can also change color, but white is the most poetic (via Designer’s Block UK).

A few more:

• Roxana Zegan transforms cracked streets into art with acrylic paint (via Design*Sponge).
• Up-and-coming designer Gudrun’s “Robots in Disguise” series combines patchwork and machinery. Her “Dia de los Muertos” series also reinvents the hackneyed skull (via The Coveted).
• Little Otsu has some amazing 2008 calendars. This one, by Lart Cognac Berliner, envisions months as territories, and a year as a physical journey (via Modish).
• Katja Prins’ jewelry mixes the organic and the mechanical (via dear ada).
• Game studio Three Rings Design transformed their office space into The Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Check out the wall-size map and the tentacle couch (via Boing Boing/Wired).