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A surprisingly upbeat song about acknowledging both loss and the beauty of life
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Tag Archives: Design
Project Womb
What happens when you mix philosophy, technology and end of life? You get Project Womb, a "media-driven time capsule" and contemporary casket
“After birth, the second biggest event in life is death. And, yet, across cultures, our relationship with it seems based on avoidance and denial. We asked ourselves, ‘why isn’t death treated as naturally and gracefully as birth?’” These were the … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Coffin, Contemporary funeral, Death, Design, Design for Death, Diddo, End-of-Life Planning, Lady Gaga, modern casket, Modern funeral, Project Womb
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As Time Goes By: Chinese Designers Zijina Li and Xueping Chen’s “43 Minutes With Grandma”
Designboom’s Design for Death competition features an interactive urn for cremated remains.
Chinese designers Zijina li and Xueping Chen want to redesign the way we look at urns and cremated remains. Their design, “43 Minutes With Grandma,” was featured by Designboom’s Design for Death competition last April and makes urns much more … Continue reading
Jonas Dahlberg to Design Norway’s July 22, 2011 Memorial Site
The Swedish designer plans “an active and poetic” memorial for victims of the 2011 Norway attacks.
Today, the immediate grief and exhaustion following Norway’s tragic July 22, 2011 attacks have passed. But as Swedish designer Jonas Dahlberg says, this doesn’t mean “the wound” of the painful deaths has been forgotten. If anything, says Dahlberg, the … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Dahlberg, Death, Design, Jonas Dahlberg, Memorial, Memorial design, Norway, Norway 2011, Norway attacks, Sweden, Swedish designer
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