There’s been quite a few ingenious alarm clock concepts of late. They all have one thing in common - force you to physically get up to turn them off. The Carpet Alarm Clock is a variation to that whole meme. In order to turn it off, you have to get up and step on it. If you really want to make it a challenge, place it far away from your bed. Of course it wouldn’t be a clock if it didn’t have and LCD screen to indicate time too.

Designer: Sofie Collin & Gustav Lanberg

Since space comes as a premium, we need to design for a flexible lifestyle. Case in point is the kitchen. This design by Wiwat Pitakpongsanit takes multidisciplinary worktops to the extreme. This kitchen counter top is a place to cook, serve, meet, party, eat, and work. By reconfiguring the different sections, you can create a work surface to meet your needs.

Designer: Wiwat Pitakpongsanit

The Mobius Dress proposes an inherently inside-out and outside-in garment. The Mobius Loop, applied to the body, creates one continuous loop designed to turn inside out as it unravels. Because the Mobius strip is one-sided, one-edged and has no fixed orientation, the Felt material used for the dress also has no hierarchy, no warp and no weft.

Designer: My Studio

Nowadays if you have a house, it’s reasonable to assume you have a lawn, and that means you need equipment to keep it manicured. Unfortunately that can be costly so Gustav Landberg designed one machine that does the job of 3; a mower, leaf collector, and snow blower. The concept is perfect for first time home owners and for people short on storage space.

Designer: Gustav Landberg

Sai-so is the story of a beautiful idea: to take exquisite handmade, hand printed antique kimonos, one of Japan’s greatest gifts to the world, and reanimate (Sai-So means reconstructed) these masterworks into contemporary fashion pieces, accessories and interior designs. The epitome of Sai-So’s work is their much prized bedspread, individually designed and crafted in Berlin, using the textile archive of the company’s unparalleled collection of original Japanese Kimonos.

Design: Sai-so

Vacuum cleaner that not only attracts and addresses adults, or rather parents, but also their children. The children are invited to help out with the cleaning of their home in a fun, responsible and inspiring way. The children can ride on the vacuum cleaner and welcomes them to help out during cleaning.

Designer: Kristina Andersson

Waugh Thistleton has submitted an entirely timber tower for planning in Hackney, London. To be constructed entirely in timber, the nine-storey high-rise is set to be the tallest timber residential building in the world. Comprising both private and affordable housing, the scheme will comprise of twenty-nine apartments each with their own balcony.

Architect: Waugh Thistleton [ Via: Dezeen ]

Luminos are bricks in darkness. Like a candle needs a fire to light it up, Luminos, which have light sensors and LEDs, need light to turn the LEDs on. This is a simple and intuitive interaction yet it has the possibility of complexity of a chain reaction created by configurations of Luminos like dominoes and bricks.

Designer: Tomoaki Yanagisawa

This 3D tile collection by Han Yi Huang imparts a paradigm shift in what we think as tiles and how tiles should function. No longer relegated to just a flat surface, 3D tiles take on the texture, ebb, and flow of their design naturally forming rifts, loops, and hooks. This design feature extends their range of function by enabling you to use them as holders and hangers.

Designer: Han Yi Huang

Tal Gur, a graduate of Bezalel’s Department of Industrial Design, became known in the last decade as one of Israel’s prominent designers in the area of plastic light fixtures and objects manufactured in the rotation technology. Gur has been exploring various areas of craft in domains where design forms an integral part in a dynamic texture of life-culture.

Designer: Tal Gur