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06.22.09
Chris Burns

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Lighting
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An Ominous Orange Glow Lights London

An Ominous Orange Glow Lights London

What’s that mass of balls there in the corner? Is it a mass alien brain invasion? Oh no… Oh no, that is the Fluoro. A haze of orange / red lighting from the mind of Tom Dixon. The Fluoro comes in two different bubbles: as a pendant or a “floor light.” Check these two iterations out and throw them up all over your room! They can command an entire house, engulfing it in the color of madness and insanity.

0 Designer: Tom Dixon

06.02.09
Chris Burns

Categories:
Dining
Furniture
Living
Seating
Tableware

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Extremely Painful Furniture

Extremely Painful Furniture

These awkward yet visually spectacular seats are the product of the wild mind of Helmut Palla. Helmut is part of an exhibition by the name of “Furniture as Trophy” featuring the phenomenon of animal materials in furniture design. These chairs plus a rather wonderful coffee table with antlers make up Palla’s contribution to the show.

0 Designer: Helmut Palla

05.28.09
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Furniture
Kitchen
Living
Product Design
Tableware

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Future of ID

Future of ID

Pratt students are making their mark at the “Design for a Dollar” exhibition, International Contemporary Furniture Fair. However I’m here to showcase how enterprising their ID students can be. Three projects: Grind by Dana de Vega, Loop End Table by Carla Franciose and Array Series by Jason Pfaeffle; reflect how simple thinking and industrious application can prove to be winning designs. Take a look at them after the jump.

0 Designers: Dana de Vega, Carla Franciose and Jason Pfaeffle

05.27.09
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Dining
Kitchen
Outdoor
Product Design
Tableware

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Salad Served Fresh And Cold

Salad Served Fresh And Cold

The “Outdoor Party Platter” is quite modest in terms of design and presentation, but that doesn’t come in its way of it being a winner concept. It’s a dish-in-dish design, with the bottom insulated part made from cork and the upper platter part made from bamboo. Place sufficient ice in the bottom half and serve cold cuts or salads from the top platter. The thoughtful (optional) inserts allow you to serve more than one food item at a time, without them running into each other. A handy-dandy for those who like to plan picnics and outdoor parties.

0 Designer: Vicki Runnegar

05.22.09
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Dining
Tableware

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Power Your Spice

Power Your Spice

The “Salt&Pepper Cell” shakers belong to the “I’m not product series” by Antrepo Design. They previously gave us the Minutuner, which was an awesome design for a clock. While that one confused us to believing it’s a Radio Tuner, the Salt&Pepper Cell serenade as a pair of whimsical D size battery. Fashioned from stainless steel and glass, the power indicators on the sides correlate to the amount of spices left in the shakers, before refill time. The Red&Turquoise and Black&white color options look fantastic!

0 Designers: Antrepo Design Industry

05.18.09
Anthony James

Categories:
Lighting
Living
Product Design
Tableware

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Simply a Bright Idea

Simply a Bright Idea

We have all done it. You might be doing it right now. If you are reading this site, then you are probably predisposed to doing it all the time. Over thinking a design. That’s what designer Sungho Lee did when he first approached his LED light design. He started by filling a box with all the requisite parts needed to generate a LED light. After stepping back, he stripped his design of everything that wasn’t necessary. Basically it’s a paperclip, slightly modified to to hug a watch battery and topped with the LED light. Brilliant!

0 Designer: Sungho Lee

05.15.09
Chris Burns

Categories:
Kitchen
Product Design
Tableware

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10 Unique Designer Breakfasts

10 Unique Designer Breakfasts

So I hear you all, all of us, love to eat breakfast. Or wish. Wish we could eat breakfast every day. Check it out. Here’s ten amazing industrial design concepts based on that old timey morning ritual. Most of them are basically made for people who’ve got time to eat breakfast, but yes, there are fantabulous designs for those of you who’ve got no time at all! Designers!

0 Designer: 10 Wild Designers

05.15.09
Radhika Seth

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Dining
Living
Tableware

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P.S. Pass the Salt and Pepper

P.S. Pass the Salt and Pepper

You’re a fine cook! You can even put the great likes of Anthony Bourdain to shame. I suggest you even take over Kylie Kwong’s show. And I’m sure Jamie Oliver and Nigella can shove their Brit Pies in the oven for good, coz you’re the next star at Hell’s Kitchen! And before you take a long walk off a short cliff, just remember to pass me some SALT & PEPPER! Coz you may be the finest cook in the world, but “P. S.” I like my dishes spiced to my taste. Post Dot Scriptum Dot!

0 Designers: Michael Paschenko & Maxim Avramenko

05.06.09
Long Tran

Categories:
Product Design
Tableware

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Portion Control is the Key to Healthy Eating

Portion Control is the Key to Healthy Eating

One can just look at the palm of their hand to calculate how much they should eat, but if you’re like me and tend to fill up a plate, then you need something more deliberate. The Plus Minus system is dinnerware with the skinny-you in mind. On one side you have shallow recesses to control food portions. Feeling portly? Flip it over and you’ve got a giant sinkhole for all your binge needs. Stack them up and there’s a gestural play on skinny vs. fat. Hmmm… DO WANT!

0 Designer: Soo Kwon

04.27.09
Long Tran

Categories:
Green
Packaging
Product Design
Tableware

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Got Me a Spoon

Got Me a Spoon

This isn’t the first time the whole world moved towards “greener” design but hopefully this time it’ll stick. Plastic spoons that come with takeout foods are inefficient and “ungreen” so the challenge was to find the most cost effective remedy while giving Earth one less thing to worry about. Ideally you should carry your own flatware but if you don’t mind a little kitsch, check out the Spoon and Box.

0 Designers: Won-Jae Lee, Jun-Yong Lee, Sang-Jun Hahn, Sun-Kyu Kim & Yeo-Wool Kang

04.20.09
Chris Burns

Categories:
Kitchen
Lifestyle
Tableware

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Ode to Das Wine Boot

Ode to Das Wine Boot

Oh, Das Wine Boot, how I wish theoretical science did work perfectly in sync with real-world physics. The three minds at Kyouei Design contain at the very least thrice the creativity that my fake-German brain does - evident here in the wine-holding “Glass Tank.” Get the wine in that bubble and you’ll be booting your way to strange wineglass supremacy. An eye opener, to be sure… or maybe an eye closer? How much you drinking?

0 Designer: Kyouei Design

04.07.09
Chris Burns

Categories:
Dining
Tableware

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Would You Use a Bone Folder as a Knife?

Would You Use a Bone Folder as a Knife?

Do you know what a Bone Folder is? It’s a plastic utensil used for scoring paper, putting folds in it. Originally the Bone Folder was made of real animal bone. Some people still use animal bones for this very purpose. It works. It’s nature. Check it out. Here’s a team of people who’ve done the same thing for eating sticks. You know, knife, spoon, fork. All those things you use for eating the meat off the bones of the recently deceased.

0 Designer: Pod Design and Media

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03.09.09
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Product Design
Tableware

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Intergalactic Fun Begins Early

Intergalactic Fun Begins Early

Do you see the look of defiance in this kid’s eyes? He’s like…Do what you want I’m gonna spill that bowl of Cheerios! Grrrr Tiger I like it! His mom on the other hand is going to have the time of her life trying to vacuum the crushed bits. Tough luck but kids are like that, they abide by Murphy’s Law that if things have to go-spill…they will. To counter this law a great arsenal to mommy’s aid is the Löopa Gyro Bowl.

0 Designers: Brad & Melinda Shepard

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