The Charge-Box offers an attractive place for keeping and charging mp3-players, mobile phones or digital cameras. A multiple plug socket is hidden away in a solid coated steel body as well as unpleasant battery chargers and their cable spaghetti, while the devices are located on a felt pad. No matter whether the Charge-Box is mounted on a wall or put on items of fitment whats left is simple beauty.
The tilting concept used in these chairs has been awarded The Nordic Design Award “Nordiska Designpriset”, at the Stockholm Furniture Fair in 2007. The concept allows for entirely new possibilities for movement by means of the controlled torsion twisting of laminated wood. Precise cut-outs create the desired dynamics in the back and seat of the chair. As a rule, the technique behind forward and backward tilting chairs lies hidden in mechanical devices and mechanisms.
Designer: Peter Opsvik
Poznan’s Modern Art Museum is to get a futuristic, funnel-like roof extension, courtesy of London-based Claudio Silvestrin Architects. Come 2008, the museum, which was built in 1900 and added to in 1976, will boast a new gallery on the top floor, a space previously inaccessible to Poland’s art lovers. The configuration is intended to be a statement of contemporary and future architecture.
Architect: Claudio Silvestrin
‘One’ provides a real solution to the problems involved with urban transport. With congestion rapidly clogging up the roads the need for products that can free individuals from their car are in real demand. When open, ‘One’ is a comfortable stylish bicycle that not only offers all the benefits of cycling (like cheap travel and exercise) but with its revolutionary power assist system the user can cruise around with ease.
Designer: Thomas Owen
Brazilian designer Rafael Simoes Miranda brings his design talent to the coffee table, creating this cunning flatpack cardboard design. the table folds together like a piece of origami, creating an design that is green in more ways than one. Shown at the Milan furniture fair in 2005, this table created quite a stir, both for its functional and decorative design, and for the way that simple cardboard was transformed into a complex, load-bearing design.
Designer: Rafael Simoes Miranda
Flo is inspired by a simple observation; water moves in cycles. It flows into our homes, it’s used, and flows out. Water moves the same way in our homes as it does in the natural environment. The filtering process is revealed through an arterial network of tubes. We can trace the water as it rises up and passes through the various filtering stages, finally emerging into our glass.
Designer: Ashley Legg
The Blue Wave is a system for temporary living, a concrete beach where you can spend your lunchtime. It is a modular system that can produce various scales of habitation, from furniture to building. The pieces in these photos are large scale models exhibited at MU foundation in Eindhoven. They were produced as a testing phase to initiate the project at Lichtplein.
Designer: Andreas Angelidakis [ Via: Reluct ]
Belching steam across the catwalk, the volcanic eruptions from a hole in Hussein Chalayan’s runway presaged airborne drama. As the wild winds blew, the designer created an extraordinary melange of high- tech protection clothes and layered dresses so light that they rose like racing clouds across the models’ bodies.
Designer: Hussein Chalayan in collaboration with Moritz Waldemeyer
These speakers take on a shape inspired by symbols used to express sound. When designing hi-fi speakers you are almost totally controlled by the laws of acoustics. But if you follow the technical requirements you find that certain shapes have advantages when designing the housing. The cone shape is one of these. This shape also has a basic, practical aspect. When placed in the corner of a room, the speaker emits sound diagonally upward, towards the center of the room.
Designer: Broberg Ridderstrale
Von Zios is a unisex watch that can be transformed into a table clock. Besides showing the time, Von Zios is also a companion to the user during their journey, in the office and also at home. Every unit is interconnected by a cylindrical tube to enable the watch to be flexible and thus able to be worn by the user. In order to make the watch stand, two units need to be snapped together. This will make the watch strap rigid and therefore it able to stand on its own.
Designer: Siti Khatijah
WaterAid and Arup’s drawing water challenge to find new ways to deal with water and sanitation issues has come up with some potentially winning ideas. The winning entry is ‘WatAir’ – a 96m, inverted pyramid array of panels that collects dew from the air and turns it into 48 litres of fresh water per day. Designed by a pair of architects, the implication of their scheme is that it could provide a constant supply of fresh water in polluted and remote areas in just about any climate.
Architect: Joseph Cory & Eyal Malka [ Via: TreeHugger ]
Designed to sit among regular white tiles in the bathroom, these are standard-sized ceramics – but with a unique twist. Each has a different function, so there’s one with a hook to take a towel, one with a blackboard front (it even includes a little shelf for chalk), one to hold a bath plug, and another with air vents. They add a new, clever element to the bathroom.
Designer: Stefano Casanova
Pocket Library – Flexible e-ink screens, as easy on the eyes as newsprint, will wirelessly grab the documents you need when you enter a meeting. You can then unfurl them on the train or switch over to the newspaper. Researchers at Dutch company Polymer Vision have created flexible circuitry that bonds to displays at low temperatures so that screens can bend without melting or breaking. Now they’re working on circuits for high-resolution 8-by-11-inch displays.
Source: Popular Science
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