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Insect Printer
What better way to tell someone you love them then to have nature’s creatures do the dirty work for you? Now you too can play God by having and army of caterpillars spell out your stalker tendencies. Yes, I realize this is not the usual “product concept” you are used to seeing here on Yanko Design, but it is an interesting way to work with nature as a replacement for your tree killing printer. No? Not buying that? Ok, that was a stretch…sorry. The point here is that with the simple use of some honey in a squeeze bottle, you can make animals do almost anything for food! Genius!
Text from the designer: The various messages on the leaves depend on the leaf consumption of the caterpillars. This design originated from one of disturbance in Korean history. A message of environmental protection is created by a caterpillar, an organism or nature, by eating the honey pasted parts of the leaf. The environmental protection message is more affective when it is delivered by nature itself rather than humans. And in such way man is automatically criticized. (The natural model which has no artificial factor is a beautiful book mark that carries a message.)
Designer: Kyung-Ah Park
26 Comments »
Nacon says
Love me? Don’t you mean I love you?
I think it’s a dumb idea… clearly I don’t see what’s so neat or new about it. It has been done before and it’s still stupid. I’m pretty sure people are going to complain about how we’re still trying to save the world by NOT killing plants?
Plants = Air = Breathes = Stay alive. Duh?
(I’m wondering why did you even bothered to post this stupid idea?)
Chris says
Love me, love me not, titty….get it?
And as for the comment about saving the world…you think that a caterpillar eating a leaf is making a big contribution to destroying the world? I think you need to re-think who is the dumb stupid one.
designer says
well….
this design does not focuse on “save the world by NOT killing plants”
the point is the way to express the message.
amy, duh says
-_- how extremely lame of you to totally make everyone who just read that whole article feel like a dumbass for thinking it was a GOOD ONE!!!!! im totally using it in school….hahaha
金金乐道 says
that’s fantastic!
I love it
nice design!
designer says
thank you.
zuy says
designer Kyung-Ah Park said “thank you.” to “fantastic.” comment … It’s clear “your product ” is a conversation starter , a provocation so tell us more about your goal, think, design, green, bee ….
ééä¹é says
that's fantastic!
I love it
nice design!
m0r30rl3ss says
err.. sorry but where’s exactly the Design? am I missing something here..?
zuy says
金金乐道 that’s fantastic !
We think chinese are numerous, yes they are but compared to insects they are like germans. or french in the world…so i suggest to use insects instead of chineses to manufacture product at low cost…thanks you very much 金金乐道
Robert says
I’m losing interest in this website, shame
bystander says
why is that? Content not interesting for you?
amy, duh says
ditto ^^^
if your losing intrest why dont you find something to write about and make other people intrested instead of relying on others to satisfy your needs.
zuy says
Dutch designer made vase with bees…and is now in “design with elastic mind “in moma newyork…Could a designer designs with nature instead of software?
Jeremofer says
How does this work?… So you tell a caterpillar to right something on a plant?
TJ Kim says
um… I am korean and don't understand what the new concept is.
It is a very ,i am sorry to say, stale idea and i don't think the caterpillar will make the same shaped latter as you want on the leaf
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