Today Japan, tomorrow......
Danish design company, Essey, was recently honoured with the Good Design Award 2005 in Japan for their intricate wastebasket, Bin Bin. The competition is through the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO), which is apparently the countries only comprehensive design promotion body.
With Bin Bin, designer John Brauer has definitely created a wastebasket that easily stands apart from it's contemporaries. Made of high density polyethylene, Bin Bin was designed to look exactly like the crushed paper it was meant to contain. It's a case of re-thinking an everyday object that normally gets taken for granted, and breathe some new life into it.
Link: essey
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GORGIOUS