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Tree Envy

Choosing a Christmas tree used to be a simple three way decision: with roots, without roots or plastic. Not any longer. You’ve got the responsive social media tree, the art installation tree, the product inspired tree (see Jack Daniel’s barrel tree or Lego’s St Pancras tree), the recycled material tree, and so it goes on. Here are some of our favourites.

Not sure why, but then again why not? It’s a smoke breathing Godzilla tree for Aqua City Odaiba shopping mall in Tokyo.

Closer to home, you’ll find this amazing 38ft Lego tree at St Pancras Station.

Complete with QR code baubles.

Designed by Paprika this ice tree sculpture features 300 recycled water bottles and hangs in the window of a Montreal furniture store.

Sharp’s 2008 tree at New York’s Grand Central Station made up of different sized plasma screens synchronised to show falling snow flakes and the like was rather special.

This year Jack Daniels have created their 26ft Holiday Barrel Tree and used it as content for an integrated campaign developed by Arnold Worldwide.

Another one in the recycled bottle mode, artist Jolanta Smidtiene used a staggering 40,000 bottles to create this gorgeous glowing tree in Lithuania.

42ft from ground to fairy!

Electric Tree – as part of his exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami Mark Handforth has lit this giant banyan tree.

Madrid’s 2007 animated Pac-Man tree (photo by alvarezperea).

If all this inventiveness has left you feeling worn out, you could always just knock a few books over.

Happy Christmas.

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