¡SAL! (spanish, salt; with exclamation mark: Get out!) is the memorabilia of the Industrial Design Class 07-09 at EscoLa Massana. It was a class-intern-competition and I won (!) a lot of work…

A right pinch of salt is as important for a delicious dish as a good designer for objects. In the last two years the polyurethane foam was our most important material making our ideas real, dusted air our daily oxygen, the crunchy sound eating a sandwich quite familiar… Most of us (some happy, others with sad eyes and a big piece of foam in their hands) are looking into a future of virtual 3D sketches in a very clean and dust-free workplace. ¡SAL! should remember us from where we come from and at the same time help us putting the right ingredients in our upcoming designs.

The foam-dust-cellar consists of a off-the-shelf recipient in four different kind of colors and a special designed polyurethane lid painted in another six colors. A simple sticker with the message: ¡SAL!UD AMOR DISEÑO inspired in the spanish “cheers” (¡Salud, amor y dinero!=Health, love & money!) serves as a seal. All of the foam-dust-cellars contain the same ingredient and best wishes for the future, but the colors make each of them unique just as everyone in our class is.  moremás » 

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Seen at Lyon St Exupéry International Airport. Visto en el aeropuerto de Lyon St. Exupéry.

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Seen in Geneva, Switzerland. Visto en Ginebra, Suiza.

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Skipping through old sketchbooks, I found this project: back in the days, studying in Vienna; our teacher had the idea to let us (photography and graphicdesign students) play for three days “landscape artists” in a small village in the west of Austria. With all the “Green”DesignHype* right at the moment, I may post it… Mirando proyectos antiguos, me he encontrado con ese pequeño tesoro… Cuando estudiaba en Viena, mis profesores tenían la “gran” idea de que por tres días todos (estudiantes de diseñadores grafico y/o fotografia) nos pongamos el papel de artistas…

And that’s the whole project: Eso era mi proyecto:

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It seems getting really serious with global warming!!! Even illustrators of ordinary Christmas calendars are tired to draw lies about a very, very white Christmas, which we had years ago… Belloc says: TAKE CARE OF OUR NATURE!!! Parece que vamos en serio con el calentamiento global, que ni los calendarios de navidad nos quieren vender la mentira de unas navidades plenamente nevadas. Se que no es facíl sobrevivir los inviernos españoles sin estufas electricas y reciclar toda la basura del mundo… y que las playas mas bonitas son dificiles de alcanzar en tren; pero un poquito de ojo… ! Mercí!

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