GNR8 new/s

solar wallpaper

Designers: Marta Lwin, Ty Whitfield, Teresita Cochran, and Ramakrishnan Subramanian

In a similar vein to Front Design's Light Sensitive Wallpaper, "solar wallpaper" (designed at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program) uses light (or lack thereof) as it's primary catalyst.

By embedding electroluminescent materials into the design pattern of the wall paper and incorporating a built-in light sensor, the wallpaper can respond to the lighting requirement of a room, acting as a decorative element when a room is naturally bright, and as a flat wallpaper light when the room requires more light. With power supplied from a solar charged battery, it can also be manually controlled to increase or decrease luminosity. Sustainable, efficient, functional, and technologically sexy.

liquid_light

Designers: Büro Für Form

From the designers website:

"A product needs more than perfect function and ergonomics. A product needs spirit, emotion, and poetry!"

We couldn't have said it better ourselves.

Available now ONLY at gnr8

tiretagz

Just in case you were thinking that gnr8 will sell anything with LEDs in it, here's something we don't (unless you want to buy one of course).

Created using technology originally developed for Indy Car racing (where no expense will ever be spared to logofy every last inch of available space),

"tiretagz uses complex electronic circuitry and high frequency LEDs to creat patterns, image, words and even animations within the wheels of you car while you drive!"

These would probably go great with that blue neon underbody light you just bought your car for Christmas.

jacobs light tables

 

Designer: Andrea Antoni

Beautiful. Elegant. Functional.

Only at GNR8

on/off switch

Designer: Tobias Wong

We're really happy to be able to offer this work by one of our favorite designers working today, Tobias Wong. As his entry in coroflot explains,

"Much of Tobi Wong's work plays between concept and beauty, exposing the similarities between art and design rather than blurring their boundaries. Unlike purely conceptual work - which often lacks a real appreciation for beauty, aesthetics, and a desire for consumption - his work often finds expression in real objects. He's coined the term Paraconceptual to describe it: "Of, relating to, or being conceptual."

This wireless switch can control any light fixture you choose, and you can set it anywhere in your house. Simply attach the remote component to your light fixture, open the On/Off box and flip the switch – that light on the other end of the room instantly turns on or off! The switch works up to 100 feet away and comes encased in an elegant lucite box with a magnetic lid.

US$119 Available now at gnr8.

Dear Ingo

Designer: Ron Gilad for Designfenzider

This unique design, basically consisting of 16 endlessly reconfigurable task lamps, isn't new. What's new is that it's just been "handpicked by Marcel Wanders to be part of the moooi collection."

The chandelier is scheduled to have it's "moooi premiere" at Milan this month.

Do you want one?

trophy

Designer:Isabelle Rolland

Hmmm...let's see...does the word "postmodern" ring a bell?...How about "referential"...or maybe...........GENIUS!!!

US$3299. Available now at GNR8