Tinker.it!, a company dedicated to bringing creativity and technology together, is hosting an event on April 18th to design a piece of lighting using left-over materials.  Following the success of their Makers and Hackers event, the new Slow Lighting Event hopes to achieve similar results in a new field.  The event is a new spin on product design where the audience is expected to utilize the opportunity as a making day, not a teaching day.
The hosts hope the collaboration of innovative teams will yield fresh results despite strict restrictions on materials and time.  Instead of The best products will be [...]

Artist Mark Langan has figured out a beautiful way of reusing corrugated cardboard as a medium for his artworks. Using only found cardboard, non-toxic glue and cutting tools, Langan creates intricate three dimensional pieces that recontextualize the unique qualities of the different kinds of packing materials into new meanings.
Mark Langan
[via Treehugger]

A group of 51 artists from all over the world are celebrating the art of the everyday object at the Museum of Arts and Design’s exhibit “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary”. In the spirit of Marcel Duchamp’s “Readymades”, these artists transform items that would normally blend invisibly into the background of daily life into stimulating works of art. Using found and mass-produced things like vinyl records, dog tags, thread and telephone books as their raw material, they have squeezed out new meaning, and beauty from ordinary stuff.  The show runs till April 19 at the Museum’s new Columbus Circle location. [...]