I found out about the Candadian Design Resource and the work of design school graduate Cristina Covello through NOTCOT, an online network that features innovations in current design through the dialogue of readers.

Cristina uses discarded materials like old tin cans and plastic shopping bags, and redesigns them into new, functional, eco-friendly products. The tin can wall storage is a great way to organize magazine, mail, stationery, and other bits and pieces that seem to gather in a cluttered pile on the tabletop.

She has also created a lighting series made from used grocery bags that she arranges into a pattern and stitches with colored thread to create soft, glowing lampshades. What a great idea! …. though I like these lights, I can’t get over how cool the tin can storage looks! I want!

August 29th, 2006