LOTSof LimitedSpring Collection 2008

We believe that the meeting of different worlds generate good things. In our collection LOTS of Limited, we have allowed opposite poles – the unique and the mass-produced – to meet on equal conditions.The value of limitations in industry has many aspects, such as the need of the individual to make a personal statement or the possibility of being unique as a consumer. The meeting of small-scale manufacturing with mass production opens up opportunities for varieties of expression, unique situations and ease of upgrading. The work with the collection also provided food for thought about the ageing of an object over time, the value of patina and even about the transitoriness of nature.

With LOTS of Limited we want to raise the discussion of the value of uniqueness in industry. Discover Shell - an urn for burials at sea that celebrates the individual and thoughtfulness, regardless of religion, or Du Lenin – a USB package for record collectors, in collaboration with the Kning Disk record company. With the Camou benches we show how the perception of public space can simply be altered through the use of mass-produced, basic concrete elements together with unique seating surfaces. In the layerONlayer project we bring up questions about a surface value and interactivity in our future public spaces through colours.

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ShellShell is an urn for burials at sea. The project builds on the humanistic burial ceremony that disregards religious tradition and instead focuses on Man’s role in Nature. The urn is made from pressed paper and dissolves in water over time. We have considered the need of the individual to make a personal statement. Messages for the deceased can be written on the surface of the urn and small objects and notes can be placed in a pocket at the top of the urn. Through the form chosen, Shell seeks to impart a natural simplicity that may reflect the personality of the deceased. Through its simplicity – both of form and material – Shell seeks to celebrate both Man and Nature.

Du, LeninÅke Hodell // ”Du Lenin” - limited USB edition Åke Hodell’s first radio play “Du, Lenin” (“Hey, Lenin,”) was broadcast on Swedish radio for the first time in 1970. Now, 37 years later, Kning Disk has dug it out of the archives for republication.

We are hurtled back into the bureaucratic office landscapes of the seventies, the clanking coffers of the World Bank and the fiery speeches of the Leader to the people, and are yet again confronted with Hodell’s critical and astute scrutiny of the world outside – as topical today as when first aired.

“Du, Lenin” is the first in a new series of sound publications in the USB format, packaging designed by LOTS and published by the Kning Disk record company, based in Gothenburg. The package combines yesterday’s archive details with today’s USB technology. The edition is hand-made and limited to 100 copies.

Packaging of Du Lenin // Åke HodellClient: Kning Disk

Packaging of Du Lenin // Åke HodellClient: Kning Disk

CamouA bench is a bench is a bench… Or?LOTS asked the question how we can develop changeable and unique collections for industrial production in a simple way. Camou is our answer.

Using mass-produced basic concrete elements and combinable seats we have developed a bench that not only satisfies the need for production flexibility, but also provides opportunities for simple changes to the nature of public spaces.The different heights and seating material options of Camou mean that a bench no longer has to be a bench.

LOTS wants to se a greater variation in the leisure surfaces available in our com-mon living room, where all cultures and all individuals can feel at home. We want to see prayer mats, chaises longues, rag-rugs and picnic fields. Do you?

Camou // Oriental

Camou // Lawn

Camou // Luminous

layerONlayerlayerONlayer is a project in which LOTS addresses issues relating to the value of surfaces, the interactivity between surfaces and the surrounding environment and the beauty of the slow process. It’s about time and space and the possibility of giving life – and uniqueness – to a static and mass-produced object. We present three concrete examples of discussions around this theme on existing objects around our office; the fuse box with the décor, whose beauty becomes more apparent as the corrosion spreads on the surface, and a visionary scenario for colour as a communicator in public spaces, ap-plied in this case to ventilation shafts and lampposts. Based on contemporary innovations in the field of interactive colour, we look into the near future where we envisage the potential use of static objects in the urban environment to communicate air temperature and even high levels of air pollution or pollen.

layerONlayerResistent colour layer under black paint, sensitive to corrosion. Decorations appears slowly over time.

layerONlayerFloral pattern, sensitive to heat. In a future scenario objects can be temperatured if high levels of pollen is measured in the air.

layerONlayerA future scenario of sensitive colours on lampposts as indicator for temperature or high levels of air pollution for example.