Website: Dollar Store Hack
Katherine Sharpe
Not everything on Dollar Store Hack is a gem, but a lot of it is fun and/or funny.
Above: Pistols blazing!
The site seems to be the record of a class taught by Michael A. Salter at the University of Oregon last year. It has a manifesto that reads like this:
Above: Pistols blazing!
The site seems to be the record of a class taught by Michael A. Salter at the University of Oregon last year. It has a manifesto that reads like this:
In an effort to investigate design and push creative methodologies we hacked existing dollar store items, designing, sketching and building a variety of personal and home goods. All our materials were acquired at the dollar store. Our goal was simple; design by hacking cheaply made plastic junk, and hopefully, manipulating some irony and employing some criticality in an otherwise humorless and often anonymous world of product.Irony and criticality were in many cases achieved; however, it's interesting that goods designed with junk tend, much of the time, to look like junk themselves. I don't blame the designers. I think I blame the preponderance of junk.
