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Travis Barker designs skull homeware collection for Buster + Punch
Drummer Travis Barker has collaborated with London design brand Buster + Punch to create the Skull Collection of homeware items, which includes a table lamp, candle holder and bowl.
Barker, who is best known as the drummer of pop-punk band Blink 182, designed the collection for Buster + Punch with the aim of bringing a motif that is common in tattoo and skate culture into interior design.
Travis Barker designed the Skull Collection for Buster + Punch
"I've been obsessed with skulls forever – from the first time I saw artists like Pushead, who put skulls on the Misfits and Metallica albums, and Zero skateboards back in the day," said Barker.
"I've always loved them, they scream rock 'n' roll, they scream danger and poison. Skulls stand against everything, so to present them in a way like this and take it to a new level is special."
The collection includes a candle holder and bowl
Named the Skull Collection, it includes a table lamp, doorstop, bowl, cabinet knobs and a candle holder alongside several pieces of jewellery and a drum key described by Barker as a "super niche" piece.
Made from solid stainless steel or brass, the majority of pieces in the collection are sand cast so that no two pieces are exactly the same.
It also includes a door stop
Each piece incorporates a solid metal skull. The candle holder, doorstops and cabinet knobs themselves take the shape of a skull while the domed table lamp features a skull on the end of the pullcord.
The bowl, which the designers suggested could be used to "put chips in" or "as an ashtray", takes the form of the top of an upturned skull.
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Barker hopes that the pieces will add drama to sometimes mundane homeware items.
"You never think of a cool doorstop, until there is a cool doorstop," he said.
The lamp was made in brass and stainless steel
The collection was created after Buster + Punch contributed to the renovation of Barker's studio in Los Angeles.
Each of the pieces was informed by an initial sketch of a customised drum key – a small tool used to adjust the tension of the skin of a drum – drawn by Barker.
Buster + Punch founder Massimo Buster Minale believes that the final collection reflects the brand's overall ethos.
"The range grew from a beautiful sketch Travis made of a drum key and ended up as a statement of design today – unexpected, functional, fluid and most importantly, impossible to pigeonhole," said Minale.
"In this way, it's a collection that reflects our outlook on creativity."
Previous interior pieces that have incorporated skulls on Dezeen include a 24-carat-gold skull-shaped armchair designed by French design company Harow and a chair covered in a traditional sugar-skull pattern by Fabio Novembre.
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Ohmie is a 3D-printed lamp made from orange peels
Milan-based start-up Krill Design has 3D printed Sicilian orange peels into a tactile lamp that can be composted along with organic household waste.
The designers at Krill Design turned to orange peel to create the lightweight lamp because of the citrus fruit's ubiquity in Sicily, Italy.
Each lamp is made from the discarded peels of two or three oranges sourced from a family-owned food producer in the Messina province of Sicily.
Top: each lamp is made from two or three oranges. Above: Ohmie retains the natural bumpy feel and smell of oranges
"We needed a material that would not run out and given that Sicily alone produces about 3 per cent of global oranges, that allows us to stock up on the peels and be able to always produce Ohmie," Krill Design told Dezeen.
"We are keen on promoting a local and fully Italian supply and production chain. Oranges are one of the many Italian produces renowned worldwide and we believe it is a nice symbol."
Ohmie is made from locally sourced Sicilian oranges
From its patterned surface to its orangey smell and vibrant colour, the 23-centimetre-tall lamp was designed to reflect its origins.
The designers hope the lamp demonstrates how food waste can be successfully repurposed into an "eco-design product that is both "beautiful and functional".
The peels are ground down and combined with starch before being 3D printed
After use, the Ohmie lamp can be broken down by hand into smaller pieces before being thrown away with the household's organic waste, the studio explained.
"The orange lamp, at the end of its life, can simply be broken into fragments and tossed with the household's organic waste to be disposed of in composting facilities and be turned either into compost or biofuel depending on local dispositions," said Krill Design.
Currently, the remains have to be sent to a composting facility instead of decomposing straight into nature.
"We decided to develop a material that, for now, would only decompose in industrial facilities for performance and durability reasons, but we would like to research more and achieve a biopolymer that can be durable and sturdy as well as easy composted in nature or in an at-home compost," it added.
The light can be broken down and composted in a composting factory
Krill Design used 3D-printing techniques to "avoid any form of waste during production". The orange peels are ground down and combined with vegetable starch before being 3D printed.
"Once the peels have arrived in our office in Milan they are dried – the organic scraps need to have moisture level below 4 per cent – ground to a fine powder and sifted to make sure all grains are fine enough," the studio said.
The designers hope to show how food waste can be effectively repurposed
The peel powder is then sent to a compounding facility where it is added to a biopolymeric vegetable starch base. Afterwards, the orange biopolymer is produced in the form of pellets.
This is the only part of the production phase that is outsourced, the brand said.
"Only this phase of the process is outsourced as the machinery needed is extremely bulky and expensive," Krill Design explained.
"After this, we extrude the orange filament from the pellet and use it within a 3D printer to bring Ohmie to life."
Fruits have been used in a number of designs. Copenhagen-based brand Beyond Leather combined apple juice leftovers with natural rubber to create Leap, a plant-based alternative to leather, while Júlia Roca Vera has created a cosmetics line made from discarded fruits.
Photography is byKrill Design.
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