11.09.09
Long Tran

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Office
Reviews
Seating

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Herman Miller Setu Review

Herman Miller Setu Review

Lets keep it real. The Herman Miller Setu is priced to sell at $650. It’s no Embody but in this economy throwing around over $1k for a chair is wishful. The good folks at Herman Miller sent one to try out and my bum (cue Brits laughing) and back thank you. The supportive mesh and innovative spinal support really do make the difference. Whatever you do, don’t call it a poor man’s Embody. Hit the jump for my review.

Updated with prototype pics!

0 Designer: Herman Miller (Buy it here)

10.27.09
Radhika Seth

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Interiors
Office
Product Design

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My Happy Office Beer

My Happy Office Beer

It doesn’t hurt to fantasize about guzzling chilled beer while working in office, except most offices don’t have refrigerators (or beer-guzzling policies), and even if they did, you couldn’t trust anyone not downing your can! So how about this personalized locker-style Flip Stacking Personal Fridge for the Office? It’s the sort of mini-fridge (for each employee) that you can stack a-top of each other. Its’ unique L-Shape makes it easy to stack and it uses Thermoelectric technology allowing it to work in any orientation, even upside-down!

0 Designer: Spencer Schimel

09.30.09
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Office
Product Design
Technology

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Single Pen Dispenses All Colors

Single Pen Dispenses All Colors

A must-have on any designer’s desk is his marker pen; the more, the merrier! Getting high-tech about the colors and tools is this Braun Markerfool Marker Pen. It’s been designed especially to provide a variety of colors from just a single pen. Kinda like a miniature inkjet printer, that has a touch screen so that you can mix in the CMYK colors and use them. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black! Altho not elaborated, it claims to be an eco-friendly concept, I assume it’s coz you’ll need a lot less pens. Just this one!

0 Designer: Hai-Ling Zhong

09.15.09
Long Tran

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Furniture
Office
Product Design

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Between Art and Work

Between Art and Work

Traipsing along a fine line of an artist’s work area and a craftsman’s work table, the L.O.F.T. Workstation effortlessly balances between the two. It’s shortlisted for a Helen Hamlyn Design Award and can be seen at this year’s 100% Future Show Design London. Quite the achievement – lets take a closer look.

0 Designer: Maciek Wojcicki Design

08.05.09
Chris Burns

Categories:
Living
Office
Seating

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Not One, But Two! In One Chair!

Not One, But Two! In One Chair!

Presenting an injection-moulded polycarbonate chair designed and made fantastic by Henrich Zrubec, who hails from sunny Bratislava, Slovakia. Zrubec is an interior designer as well as a furniture maker so you know his mind is on the environment as much as it is on the product. What we’ve got here is a chair that makes an environment wild and deluxe. A red and transparent chair which can easily split into two; one transparent chair, and one red!

0 Designer: Henrich Zrubec

07.01.09
Chris Burns

Categories:
Bathroom
Kitchen
Living
Office

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The Simplest Hammer Clock

The Simplest Hammer Clock

The simplest lockdown. The perfect form. What kind of minimalism are you into? I’m listening to one of the music mixtapes released in honor of Michael Jackson: this one has a vocals-only track of “Rock with You.” Perfect, wonderful, simple. In the clock you see here, we’ve got a companion in time. The colored circle, the giant nail marking the 12 and holding the clock to the wall, and the two hands of father time. Ow!

0 Designer: Paul Loebach

06.11.09
Chris Burns

Categories:
Graphics
Kitchen
Living
Office

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Lucky Russian Trolly Ticket Cookies

Lucky Russian Trolly Ticket Cookies

Mouthful! Believe it! These cookies were designed by returning Yanko champions at Art Lebedev Studio for the Russian Ministry of Transport. In Russia where bus, train, and trolley tickets run rampant, superstition also flows freely. The Russian ticket trick is the following: when the first three digits added up equal the last three digits, the holder should eat the ticket for good luck! Design has made this luck devouring much less ink-intensive. Yummy lucky cookies!

0 Designer: Art Lebedev Studio

06.09.09
Long Tran

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Furniture
News
Office

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OneLessDesk Series, Gotta Have 'em All!

OneLessDesk Series, Gotta Have ‘em All!

Even with my RAVE review of the OneLessDesk by Dean Heckler Designs, many of you expressed dismay with it turning towards extreme minimalism at the expense of utilitarianism. People need their printer stands and filing drawers. Now you can get the whole lot via the OneLessDesk Series. That consists of the OneLessDesk, OneLessStand and OneLessFile. Pre-order now for July shipping and in a myriad of colors. Hey, why not be bold and mix & match?

0 Designer: Heckler Design [ OneLessDesk ]

06.08.09
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Interiors
Office
Product Design

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Clutter-Free Lappie Haven

Clutter-Free Lappie Haven

For centuries my pal LT has been advocating minimalist style for computer tables and I second his choice; Happy Birthday LT, here’s the Mother of ALL minimalist Tables: Bluelounge’s StudioDesk. Why? Coz it has some really spectacular features, lemme elucidate: ALL the peripherals and excess cables get tucked neatly under the sliding desktop surface. This storage compartment can be easily accessed from the top. The long slot across the desktop allows the necessary peripheral & power cables to enter/exit at any point; Clutter-free lappie tables!

0 Designer: Bluelounge [ Buy It Here ]

06.04.09
Long Tran

Categories:
Furniture
Interiors
Office
Product Design

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Surfaces, Surfaces, Surfaces

Surfaces, Surfaces, Surfaces

I’m sort of a nut job when it comes to minimalism. If I’m going to be a minimalist, I’m extreme. I like surfaces, surfaces, surfaces. Designer Emili Diaz understands my OCD-like vice so his Table 180 suits me to a tee. On the “surface” it looks all clean and unassuming but just underneath are a bevy of panels hiding compartments for every need be it dining or working. This is concept only but I’d like to have one.

0 Designer: Emili Manrique Diaz

05.29.09
Long Tran

Categories:
General Gifts
Office

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Bluelounge CableDrop

Bluelounge CableDrop

Look around you computer. You probably have one too many cables strung about and a few more dangling off your desk. Some of us have come up with creative ways to keep them in place but for a measly $9.95, you can keep them in check without resorting to tape or ugly twist ties. The Bluelounge CableDrop comes in multi-colored packs of 6 with adhesive backs. They are uniquely shaped to hold everything from cables to pens. Skies the limit really.

0 Designer: Bluelounge

05.22.09
Chris Burns

Categories:
Lifestyle
Office
Product Design

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Worst Idea: Cords

Worst Idea: Cords

So you’ve got cords. I know you do. Here’s the solution for you. That’s assuming you’ve got beef with cords! Which most people generally do at one time or another in their cordy lives. Here it is. It’s DOTZ. It’s made up of three different kinds of accessories: Dotz™ CordIdentifiers™, Dotz CordStraps™, and Dotz ™ CordWraps™. I imagine that you’re hardcore enough to guess which is which and what they do, generally. Worth it? Cute enough colors and icons?

0 Designer: Micah L. Maraia

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05.20.09
Radhika Seth

Categories:
Office
Product Design

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Novanta Desk Revisited

Novanta Desk Revisited

What is Yanko Design? Why do you visit it? Why do I write here? Endless questions….but the answer’s always the same. YD is a place where people come to get inspired, a place that showcases innovation and the wonders of human creativity in the best possible way. If this Novanta Desk invokes déjà vu, then its coz we are showcasing it again!

0 Designer: Luke Riggall

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