VIIIVIII
Sustainable by Design
9.10 Wall Phone: Reused electrical parts, plywood, cork, brass
hook, dowel, acrylic paint 91
9.11 Solar Calculator: Reused electrical parts, recovered
mahogany, cardboard, paper 92
9.12 Lumière Floor Lamp: Threaded rod, recovered ash wood,
handmade paper, steel rod, pebble, standard
electrical parts 94
9.13 G-Clamp Nutcracker: G-clamp, concrete 95
9.14 Remora Box: Recovered wood, hinges, threaded rods 97
10.1 Crystal Radio: Newspaper Article 107
10.2 Cable Radio: Family Memorabilia 108
10.3 Boy’s Own Radio: Children’s Annual 109
10.4 Kind-of-Blue Chair: From a Cabin Wall 110
10.5 Hermit Radio: Recipe 111
10.6 Tin Radio: Resistance 112
11.1 Local designs 1: Purses fashioned from the ring-pulls of
drink cans, market stall, la Rochelle, France 123
11.2 Local designs 2: Small metal suitcase made from
misprinted food can stock, metal workers market,
Nairobi, Kenya 124
11.3 Divested Design 1: Ad hoc torch 131
11.4 Divested Design 2: Ad hoc remotely operated doorbell 132
11.5 Minimalized Design: Remotely operated doorbell, uses only
functional parts 133
11.6 Ensemble Design: Ad hoc CD player/radio
13.1 Roadside advertising signs, Canada 150
13.2 Explorations of enclosure and exposure in electronic
products 152
13.3 Board Radio: Unadorned, exposed circuitry mounted
on a board 155
13.4 (a) Circuitry and enclosure; (b) Circuitry and façade 157
13.5 Product permutations as a function of design variables 158
13.6 Reversal of convention: From façade to chassis 161
13.7 Three White Canvas Clocks: Analogue, digital and digital
powered by fruit ‘battery’ 163
13.8 Three White Canvas Clocks with ‘batteries’ of lime,
tomato and orange 163
13.9 White Canvas Clock with tomato ‘battery’ 164
13.10 AM Radio, 340mm × 1620mm 165
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