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11.05.09
Chris Burns

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Desks with the Clampdown

So you’re at the library, you’ve got all your stuff spread out, and bam! You’ve gotta potty. You need to use the bathroom but you can’t leave all your stuff there! You’ve got like 16 mp3 machines and 4 laptops and 8 bars of gold! What do you do! You have to gather it all up and put it back in your rucksack and by the time that’s happened, you don’t have to potty anymore! Just say no! No more of this! We need desks that lock down! Choi Minaa has the solution to that!

Designer: Choi Minaa

11.05.09
Chris Burns

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Furniture
Living
Seating

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Furniture for a New Design School

What simplicity is this? This set of furniture, seats and tables, is made by students of the school of art and design Saint-étienne in France. What’s fun? It’s made for a new construction of the school of Arts and design of Saint-étienne in the Cité du design. In and beyond that, this is a set of seats and tables with designers in mind.

Designers: Sophie Françon and François Mangeol

11.02.09
Chris Burns

Categories:
Furniture
Living

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UNIKEA: Make Your IKEA Unique!

What do you do when you reach a design roadblock? My favorite solution is to ADD LIMITATIONS. Often doing such a thing forces you to make decisions you might never have allowed yourself to make under other circumstances. From that, beauty emerges. What’s happened in this project is just that! Designer Kenyon Yeh takes IKEA furniture and hits the remix button!

Designer: Kenyon Yeh

11.02.09
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Furniture
Green
Outdoor
Product Design

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Not Another Brick In The Wall

The Save Water Brick design is really unique; the brick is a mixture of discarded plastic bottles and dried rotting leaves molded into bricks. There are funnels within the brick to channelize the rain water to nearby plants or underground tanks. So the basic idea is that it collects rainwater for consumption. Obviously the bricks are intended for external walls so that they can absorb the water, but the question is will they be strong enough to endure the elements?

Designers: Jin-young Yoon & Jeongwoong Kwon via IIDA

10.30.09
Billy May

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Furniture
Interiors
Lighting
Living
Product Design
Seating

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Pratt’s Third+Bond; More Like Third+Awesome

Pratt, in a crazy scheme to promote its students, alumni and faculty, recently outfitted two Brooklyn condos on the corner of 3rd and Bond Street with every manner of design paraphernalia, invited a bunch of people and put up an open bar. Color me there. Drawing on past and present Pratt faculty and students like Eva Zeisel and Tucker Viemeister, the spaces came alive with conscious, inventive, often green, always cool design.

Designers: Pratt Institute

10.29.09
Chris Burns

Categories:
Furniture
Green
Living

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Not Your Everyday Satanic Shelf

Ever wonder what real impact organized religion has had on furniture design? Me too! I wonder that every day! Designer Guy Keulemans wonders that, and he’s doing something about it! Researching the ethnography of online atheist groups in addition to a historical analysis of the influence of religion on aesthetics, he set out to create a bit of furniture that inverts aesthetic function.

Designer: Guy Keulemans

10.28.09
Chris Burns

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Green
Living
Medical

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Moisture Collectors

Inspired by the Giving Tree, this project called the “Savior Bud” latches on to trees (one of Earth’s most generous living things) and uses it’s natural recycling processes to obtain water. In a simple process which basically involves collecting the moisture from the leaves and emptying it out into containers, the Savior Bud takes one more step toward acceptable living conditions in Africa.

Designers: Kim Hyo Jin and Seol Ah Sun

10.27.09
Chris Burns

Categories:
Garden
Living

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Do Not Shake Vase

We’ve had our share of vase concepts here on Yanko Design, and this is definitely one of them. It’s strikingly similar to a previous “framed vase” design we published some months ago, but it’s unique in it’s shape and execution. The line holding the frame is a wire, the wire bone’s connected to the light bone, and the light shines on the plant. Super cute.

Designer: Hwajin Jung

10.26.09
Long Tran

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Furniture
Interiors
Living
Product Design
Technology

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Gadget Friendly Hotel End Tables

I’m loving these End Table Charging stations by designer Spencer Schimel. It makes total sense. Travelers usually come equipped with loads of power hungry doodads and trying to find a plug to charge them all is a hassle. These tables have built in induction charging plates to juice up any portable device with a lithium ion battery. They even come with a cool touchscreen clock. Meh, I could do without it. I just want the table.

Designer: Spencer Schimel

10.26.09
Chris Burns

Categories:
Living
Seating

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Ball Pit Ball Chair

Is that… yes! It is a ball pit from one of those children’s theme restaurants like Chuck-E-Cheese … made into a chair! Wonderous. It’s called the “Gumball,” designed by Alberto Brogliato, and made of a soft rotomoulded plastic. Inside the plastic outer is a thousand small plastic colorful balls. I should hope that every chair has exactly one thousand balls in it. Yes. Precisely.

Designer: Alberto Brogliato

10.23.09
Radhika Seth

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Green
Living
Product Design

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Recycle Origami

Imagine putting all your unwanted trash papers into this recycle bin, and it spits out a trendy trash bin or stool made out of that same discarded paper. Call it Origami magic or Paper Mache wonders, but I think it’s an awesome game plan. The paper dumped into the Waste Paper Recycle Trash Bin gets mixed with “668 polyvinyl alcohol environment cement”, and is compressed into the trash-bin form.

Designer: Qianqian Tao

10.19.09
Chris Burns

Categories:
Automotive
Living

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Turtle Wrench

Bloody ol’ genius that’s what we’ve got here! It’s a new way to take off a tire. Stick with me here, this is really neat. You take this “Turtle Wrench,” right, and you attach it to your wheel: it connects to all of your wheel bolts at once. Now the wrench has four arms sticking out, one of them each a wrench that correlates with a bolt. You drive forward one full rotation, and as you push forward each wrench, it loosens a bolt.

Designer: Fabiano Pottes

Radia - Circular Cell Phone by Michael Laut

Timeless Designs

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10.16.09
Chris Burns

Categories:
Dining
Living
Medical

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Ultraviolet Baby Bottle

Dubbed “Pureray” by its creators in reference to its completely amazing ultraviolet rays lamp at the base and amplification pipe up the center. Each bottle is stored with a cap which screws off the top, screws on the bottom, and provides ultraviolet light to disinfect any evil viruses or germs one baby formula on the rocks might have. Made for traveling.

Designers: Hwa-yong Shin & Hannah Kim

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Desks with the Clampdown

Furniture for a New Design School

UNIKEA: Make Your IKEA Unique!

Not Another Brick In The Wall

Pratt’s Third+Bond; More Like Third+Awesome

Not Your Everyday Satanic Shelf

Moisture Collectors

Do Not Shake Vase

Gadget Friendly Hotel End Tables

Ball Pit Ball Chair

Recycle Origami

Turtle Wrench

Timeless Designs

Ultraviolet Baby Bottle

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