The box that is no box at all. fuseproject, working with Puma, have redesigned at one element of shopping in the shoe world. Check out fuseproject’s other designs, it’s all pretty beautiful, and always under the helm of Yves Behar:
Béhar brings a humanistic approach to his work with the goal of creating projects that are deeply in-tune with the needs of a sustainable future, connected with human emotions and which enable self-expression.
Behar/fuseprojects is notable for his work in the design of the laptop in question for the ‘One Laptop Per Child’ project, among other projects which he discusses here:
As with any occasion on which a designer discusses their work which is aimed at being environmentally and socially sustainable, especially when discussing projects aimed at ‘developing nations’ he makes many points both intentional and inadvertent which point out the good and the bad aspects of Rich White Designers doing work “for” the Poor Brown Folk of the world.
But as i said: it’s all pretty beautiful, and coming from an honorable impetus. Perhaps i’m over critical because he’s doing something very similar to what i would like to be doing.
incidentally, is there anybody out there? comment on this post if you’re reading. i see the stats, and it seems people are still looking at this thing, but i wonder who you are (probably just my mommy).