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Showing posts with label mexican designers. Show all posts

Space Loteria (Star Wars Mexican Bingo) By Chepo Pena Is Now Ready for Purchase!




Back in May I introduced you to Chepo Peña's fabulous Space Loteria, an originally illustrated sci-fi take on the traditional Mexican Bingo game that uses Star Wars characters and references in place of the traditional icons, like the example below.



Well, just in time for the holidays, Chepo has finally finished the deck and turned it into a full fledged bingo game you can purchase. The complete Space Loteria game is entirely hand made and includes all 54 cards, 10 playing boards, and more.

The 54 cards:






You can also purchase each one of the 54 cards shown above as an individual 8.5" x 11" print (or a complete set) here

Chepo Peña's Space Loteria Bingo Game Set $45



* 10 TABLAS (GAME BOARDS)
* 54 CARDS
* BAG OF DRIED PINTO BEANS
* RULE SHEET
* SHEET WITH ORIGINAL CARD IMAGES
* COMES IN A WOODEN BOX
* SIGNED
* SHIPPING is $5

Buy it here

Pack Of Dogs Furniture by NEL, Now Being Produced By Proteak.





At the 2007 Salone Satellite in Milan, these pieces were based roughly on the shape of a dog, in different sizes and positions.



Above: Pack of Dogs pieces as they were first introduced

The characters, named after famous Mexican wrestlers (Dos caras Jr, Aguayo, Superastro, El Santo, Alushe and Mistico) follow you around your house or office, and may work as a side table, stool, bench, bookshelf, magazine rack, newspaper holder, bookends, etc. By the way each piece is used, and the objects that interact with it, a different story is told.

The pieces were manufactured by way of traditional woodworking techniques using scraps of solid wood such as tzalam, ash, red oak, poplar, alder, walnut, and pine.


Above: the teak version now being produced by Proteak.

Now, with a slightly different design, the pieces are being manufactured and mass produced in teak by Proteak. The pieces shown below are made of FSC certified young teak.






In September of 2007, during the Designboom's "Handled with care" exhibition at the London Design Festival, NEL showed their collection "Pack of dogs". This time the pieces were made in ceramic.

The "Pack of dogs 2" is a series of ceramic multifunction pieces based roughly on the shape of a dog, in different sizes and positions. These characters, named after famous Mexican wrestlers (/Dos caras Jr, Aguayo, Superastro, El Santo, Alushe /and/ Místico/) may work as a side table, stool, bench, bookshelf, magazine rack, newspaper holder, bookends, etc.




The Pack of Dogs collection is now being manufactured by Pirwi, using FSC certified young teak from Proteak. Please visit Pirwi's website for more information.

The Pack of Dogs collection is available in the US through Kirk Gallery in Austin.

For sales in the rest of the world you can order the dogs online at www.proteak.com , or by contacting Pirwi at www.pirwi.com

As far as I can tell, the ceramic version is not being mass produced.

Pack of Dogs designers: Ricardo Casas, Héctor Esrawe, Emiliano Godoy, Cecilia León de la Barra, Óscar Núñez

About NEL:



NEL is a platform for experimentation formed by an evolving collective of Mexican designers. The collective serves as a channel to create and exhibit projects that focus on the conceptual and playful side of design. The organic nature of the collective allows for an ever changing pool of designers, which in turn generates a wide variety of projects that range from political statements to playful storytelling or aesthetic explorations.



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