09.21.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Living
Medical

17 Comments

Visually Impaired with Fine Hands

Visually Impaired with Fine Hands

A new dimension of sightless awareness equipment. This is the “VIA” Visually Impaired Assistant, a pair of hand-centric devices to make the day of a visually impaired person a whole lot easier. These devices use VMD Video Motion Detection technologies, 4 mini cameras, and a voice operated GPS receiver, all to act as both a walking stick and a mapping system. All the while looking rather fabulous on the hands as sensually molded pieces of jewelry (or “super heavy-duty metal equipment” if you’re too masculine for that sensual “J” word.)

0 Designer: Noam Klopper

09.14.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Furniture
Living
Seating

30 Comments

Chair on One Foot

Chair on One Foot

What stands on one foot, is usually very useful, but upon its intended function is functionless? Trick question! Nothing is functionless. This is “The Balance,” and it stands on one leg OR can be used as a chair. Designer Pascal Anson has a trick to play on all of us and its called PERFECT CUTS. Three very accurate, precise cuts to be exact, and a very deep message one doesn’t often see in industrial design that’s often very far away from so-called “useless” artistic expression.

0 Designer: Pascal Anson

09.10.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Furniture
Living
Seating

23 Comments

A Black Steed for Reading

A Black Steed for Reading

This is one skeletal couch. That’s not to say it’s not comfy and full of love though, because it is! This is the “Bucefalo Sofa” designed by Emanuele Canova for a new generation of book holders and readers. That’s right BOOKS! I’m sure it’ll hold your laptop just fine too. Made to be elegant, simple, stark, and powerful. Like a majestic black horse for you to ride into battle upon.

0 Designer: Emanuele Canova

09.10.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Kitchen
Lighting
Living

3 Comments

Lamp and Vase Display

Lamp and Vase Display

Two items, one intent. There’s the “Platevase” combination plate and vase and the “Favourite Things” pendant lamp. With the Platevase you can place not only a lovely flower or flowering treebranch, you can fill it with chocolates and other lovely edibles! What a fantastic combination of smells and tastes made possible by a round porcelain vase! Then there’s the Favourite Things, a pendant lamp with room for all your most awesome little items. Put anything you want in there and bam! Lit well, displayed well, makes the item feel really important. A real esteem booster for trinkets!

0 Designer: Chen Karlsson

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09.09.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Furniture
Home
Interiors
Product Design

26 Comments

Table On The Wall

Table On The Wall

The scene is this: you need a table but only occasionally and you don’t want it to occupy much space in your home. So how do we do this? Build it into the wall or take the innovative “hang it on the wall” approach? I vote for the latter and hence The Folding Table! It stays on the wall…doubling up as a bulletin board, but when you need it…3 easy steps and it’s a full-fledge table. What’s really cool is that Endrit has designed the wall hooks to function as a coat rack when the table is in use. So thoughtful!

0 Designer: Endrit Hajno

09.09.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Interiors
Living

8 Comments

Sensual Geometric Wallpaper

Sensual Geometric Wallpaper

You’ve always dreamed of that perfect roll of wallpaper. It’s got squares in it. Or diamonds, or perhaps it’s got some randomly placed stripes. Yes, all that you desire and more are here now, in this collection of beauties. It’s the “Shape & Form” wallpaper collection from Graham & Brown. Behold all these lovely shapes and sheens. These wallpapers feature geometric shapes, optical illusions, and a plethora of ways to play with light and shadow. High gloss, metallic lusters, and the finest of tones.

0 Designers: Graham & Brown

09.08.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Home
Interiors
Living
Product Design

25 Comments

Hanging On The Drying Rack Chair

Hanging On The Drying Rack Chair

This is such a clever idea, especially if you live in a small apartment and need to stash up on multifunctional gear. Here’s Lean, a chair with rails for its back…nothing path breaking so far; but drag it to your radiator and hitch it to lean onto it, and hey! you have a stand to dry your clothes! Super neat and super useful, especially if made with the right kinda materials.

0 Designers: Eunggyu Lee, Junghoon Baek, Sangmin Yoon & Samuel Sari, Seonggeun Chio

09.08.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Lighting
Living

15 Comments

Infinite Candle

Infinite Candle

This project goes by the name “One Makes Another” and it takes one candle, a spool of string, and a little bit of metal. Bam! Infinite candle. Right? Sort of. Designer Yuya Kurata describes this project as a candle holder which makes another candle underneath as it melts, but one that isn’t quite complete. The concept is here, the candle isn’t quite ready for it. Because candles do not gutter as much as would be necessary, a slightly distorted candle is made. However! One Make Another does sort of work. It’s nearly there. All they’d need is a different candle consistency and a little bit of the ol’ modification of physics!

0 Designer: Yuyu Kurata

09.07.10
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Interiors
Living
Product Design
Seating

21 Comments

These Stretch Marks Are Good!

These Stretch Marks Are Good!

Moran Ein Dor is passionate about surfaces and effects of stretching; as a result he’s crafted this brilliant piece of furniture called Stretch no.3. It’s a chair where the stretching poles functions as columns and compliment the surface, which forms the seat. It’s currently under production, so an affordable version should be out for those of you who have taken fancy to this scrunchy-clip lookalike!

0 Designer: Moran Ein Dor

09.06.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Living

8 Comments

Iron Woman

Iron Woman

This project goes by the name “IronwoMan,” capitalized just like that. It’s made by designer Muzaffer Kocer, who tells us that ironing clothing is a boring and difficult process, especially if you are a man. I tend to think that it’s a boring process for ANY person, but Kocer’s going to relieve that. This IronwoMan capitalizes on what Kocer notes that researchers have found out about men: that they like wheeled vehicles, cars, and rotating objects. Weird! Kocer found this out and created an iron that works like an asphalt roller with a rotating tambour.

0 Designer: Muzaffer Kocer

09.06.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Furniture
Living
Seating

11 Comments

One Loose and Tight Chair

One Loose and Tight Chair

When I was a kid, I had a toy made of plastic and string. It was a pile of body parts all connected by the string. There was a button on the bottom of this toy and at the push of this button, the spring would be sprung, the string would be taut, and all the pieces would be held together tight, revealing Mickey Mouse! I can’t remember a single place where this lovely concept had been used, until now, in a chair!

0 Designer: Fresh West for Laikingland

09.02.10
Chris Burns

Categories:
Audio
Furniture
Living

7 Comments

Beats by Eames

Beats by Eames

This right here is a wireless speaker system inspired by the works of Charles and Ray Eames. Specifically, it uses the “Eames Quadraflex Speakers” system as a drawing board to create this DIY project. Designer Joel Pirela built a wooden box with an access door in the back, jammed (with care) a bunch of amazing speaker components in there, and created an opening for sound at the front, covered with a black aluminum grill. Painted all in an off-white shade for that “vintage look” and set it right up in Pirela’s house.

0 Designer: Joel Pirela

09.01.10
Long Tran

Categories:
Furniture
Home
Interiors
Tableware

3 Comments

Scratching Beneath the Surface

Scratching Beneath the Surface

Hip hop is a rich culture that has deep meaning to those who live it. By interviewing DJs, MCs, B-boys and Graffiti artists involved in the hip hop community, designer Vanessa Chew create a series of table pieces called Scratching Beneath The Surface. It’s energetic and expressive, modern and emotive, just like hip hop.

0 Designer: Vanessa Chew

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