Yanko Design » Textile

Big Eye Needle

Long Tran — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:08:00 +0000

Where was this invention when I was in Fashion Design school? Big Eye Needle is an ordinary loop-eye sewing needle except it’s made of some new fangled metal. With a bit of pressure, the tiny loop-eye expands to the size of a button hole making threading a cinch – literally. Gone are the days of far sighted clumsy hands and sore thumbs. Damn thread never seems to want to go in without a fight. I need the Big Eye Needle now. Appropriately, I rate this a DO WANT!

Designer: Woo Moon-Hyung

Transform and Clock Out

Chris Burns — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:30 +0000

For the child-hearted reversible-accessory loving design-conscious sleeping-person, there is the Wollip-Bear. Have you had a long day that only the loving arms of a lifeless bear impersonation can give rest from? Have you always wanted to own a form-changing creature that doesn’t just turn into a truck or motorcycle? Here is something softer. Here is Maja G’s Wollip-Bear.

The most excellent and kind Maja Ganszyniec brings the cuddly: “Wollip-pillow is an alternative solution for people having problems falling sleep and are considered too old for sleeping with a teddy bear. Wollip is a reversible pillow which turned inside out becomes a teddy bear. The Wollip-Bear allows you sleep with a teddy bear, without anybody suspecting a thing. Sleep still, knowing that in case of nightmares or as soon as feeling lonely, the regular pillow will turn into a soft, cuddly toy. Avoid the inconvenient and unnecessary questions in the morning simply flipping it back.”

This is the cutest ever. Awww.

Designer: Maja Ganszyniec

Jacket Pillows, With Heads?

Long Tran — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:24:49 +0000

Designer Ximena Orozco had an old wool jacket she hadn’t worn in years. Instead of throwing it away she thought, why not make a pillow out of it? She’s created a whole line of them, each with a story printed on a label inside. Some are childhood attachments, some were gifts from an ex. We love this idea. What a great way to reuse something you don’t wear but too attached to throw away.

Designer: Ximena Orozco