Blogging... Bright Blinds for a Blank Wall

Heh. Check out these faux Bright Blinds created by two Japanese designers. They're made specifically for blank walls to simulate the presence of a window thanks to electroluminescent sheeting behind the blinds. We'd say that these Bright Blinds would probably be more effective in a gloomy cubicle-filled office than an apartment, but the concept is pretty neat.

[ via Geekologie ]

Comments (16)

There's the answer to a question nobody asked...

As somebody that was delegated to a gloomy basement bedroom as a teen, I would have loved something like this!

No. Creepy, and blinds are ugly to begin with. Nope.

I've seen sort of solution before and I can't stand it! It's got to be on my list of top 10 useless ideas.

You could pretend you have the corner office with the window, if you had six of these babies on two adjacent walls.

The effect would be disorienting to office visitors.

It would have been a good solution for Agent Mulder.

Hmm, if you're going for a whimsical solution to your lack of window, why not really make it whimsical? I'd maybe take one of those backlit fake waterwall paintings and put curtains on the sides, or something. This is too sleek.

i work in a gloomy cubicle filled basement....at the lowest part of my office building. we always joke all the time about putting up a picture of a window on one of the walls

Now all you need is a sound machine with tweeting birds, and voila! You still have an apartment with no windows.

http://www.dcrinteriors.com

Maybe this would be more appealing if it didn't look like the "window" was pouring out light from a nuclear blast.

This idea depressed me the last time it was posted, and it continues to depress me now.

As a conceptual piece I "get it", but as something you'd actually consider putting in a house or (ugh) a cubicle it is just an atrocity. I mean, mini blinds with glaring white light behind them? Really?

I'm just curious - why does most everyone here dislike window blinds so much?

Hey, when you work 8 hrs each day in an office with no windows at all, something like this starts to look good.

My cubemate agrees we must get this. We already have table lamps in here, we need something more outside-y. It's a CAVE.

I think with the right decorations around it... it could work, but knowing me I'd get excited and forget it was fake... rip it open wanting to escape the office... and be pissed. I hope I never find myself working in a basement or cold cubical... but if you do and you like these, get them!