i³ Lab: Full Moon Mattress & Cushion

i³ Lab is a design laboratory focused on “utilizing the imaginary, illusory and ideal aspects of time and space” to “give meaning to the modern people’s lost dreams through our emotional designs.”¹

In keeping with this edict they have produced a series of items inviting the user to literally embrace the moon as a vessel of passage into their dreams.

“Full Moon Odyssey” is a floor-mattress which gives you a dream-like experience of sleeping on the moon. It was produced in collaboration with photographer Chin Wei Loon who took the photos of the moon from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on January 29th, 2010 using a 6 inch telescope and DMK CCD camera. The final visual featured on the mattress is composed of 26 segments of lunar images.²

“Nocturne by Moonlight” is a full-moon shaped cushion which glows in the dark like real moonlight. It features 65 individual frames of lunar mosaic images taken from Nantes in West France on February 23rd, 2005 by photographer Norbert Rumiano. The pillow illuminates in the dark, projecting a soft, dim light.³

Personally, I don’t know how well I would sleep with a glow-in-the-dark pillow, but it’s a cool concept. Between the two I’m leaning toward the mattress—its large size and realistic detail give it a real sense of fun and child-like wonder.

¹i3lab.com
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