LED Fever
By Jean • Mar 31st, 2009 • Category: Living Spaces
A new kind of non-destructive luminous graffiti made of a tiny LED light, a lithium battery and a magnet.
They are inexpensive and easy to make at home. Everything began with a campaign in Manhattan in which LED throwies were handed out and people were encouraged to throw them onto a large metal sculpture called Alamo. The idea spread like wildfire on Internet, and just a few weeks later they were spotted in London, Hamburg and Berlin.
Today there are LED throwies everywhere you look: on bridge struts, smokestacks, façades, trams, bike wheels… and there is something exciting about them, perhaps because they are anonymous public works of art that are spreading around the world. Who knows? This might just be the start of something yet to be invented…
Instructions for how to make your own LED throwies here
See the LED Throwies in action in NYC:
