Floppy disks are a thing of the past. The best use today is to put them in the dust bin. Wrong. At least for the 2nd chance design, the Brussel based designer company that believes obsolescence and design could be mixed.
Bulky waste of VHS tapes, audio cassettes and 3.25 inches computer floppies each had a story to tell. Each had a soul. Lying waste on the streets as if it never had any relevance.
Such bulks were hand picked by personnel and the ‘souled part’ (the tape inside the VHS and the disk inside the floppy disk), all transformed by hand into lamps, cloth and cushions, a new gush of life for old and forgotten memories. Designers Carolina Bertomeu Sanchez and Juan Fransico Mortier have with the help of innovation, creativity and their experience turned waste into respectful products to adorn living rooms.
As the note on their website goes:
“Death of the memories could not go on, we had to offer them a second chance.”
Via: Superuse
