December 2007 • Observed
Total Garbage
Konstantin Grcic, the prolific industrial designer from Munich, has a soft spot for rubbish. His trash cans for the German company Authentics were small miracles of functionalist design, and now he’s reprised them with Top, a new line of rainbow-hatted polypropylene bins. A weight in the back of the lid aids in opening and closing, and retractable connectors daisy-chain the narrow 25-liter containers into a color-coded waste-management center.
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