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Anti-Fly Sphere at Milan Design Week

Anti Fly Sphere

Visit a taco kiosk on the streets of Mexico and you’re sure to see a plastic bag full of water hanging from the ceiling.

Anti Fly Sphere

It’s a traditional way to scare flies away and is used in most of the food markets in urban Mexico. Light is refracted by the water, the colours and movements of the bag are amplified and the fly is confused and flies away.

Anti Fly Sphere

It’s a sustainable, environmentally-friendly pest repellant suitable for use around food, that doesn’t harm the flies – just keeps them away from your tacos.

Anti Fly Sphere

Jose de la O has simply taken this ingenuous idea and made it beautiful. (Below is the first iteration of the design, created in 2008.)

Anti Fly Sphere

José de la O is a Mexican-born, Netherlands-based designer who is focused on creating a collection of products inspired by sustainability and cultural ingenuity.

Anti Fly Sphere

He has recently been recognized by Architectural Digest Mexico as one of the country’s top ten young designers.

Anti Fly Sphere

Our trip to Milan was supported in part by Airbnb.com.

Katie Treggiden is a purpose-driven journalist, author and, podcaster championing a circular approach to design – because Planet Earth needs better stories. She is also the founder and director of Making Design Circular, a program and membership community for designer-makers who want to join the circular economy. With 20 years' experience in the creative industries, she regularly contributes to publications such as The Guardian, Crafts Magazine and Monocle24 – as well as being Editor at Large for Design Milk. She is currently exploring the question ‘can craft save the world?’ through an emerging body of work that includes her fifth book, Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure (Ludion, 2020), and a podcast, Circular with Katie Treggiden.