How simple a light do you want for your desktop? How about one with a couple joints, a base, a wire, and a bit of shine? Well hay! We’ve got that right here! Designed by Swedish design and architecture studio TAF for Scandinavian design company Muuto. One of the most prominent hopes for this project was to project the idea of Honesty. That’s why all bolts, joints, and screws are emphasized.
Designer: TAF for Muuto
Here’s something I believe I’ve seen in Gotham City, that mythical magical city of futuristic proportions you’ve all glanced upon in the series Batman. But this is more real! Depending on how you look upon it. It’s a train system designed by two loving designers who want to make transport for the people also above the people and looking upon the people. Transparent sides!
Designer: Elisa Sayuri Freitas Irokawa and Rafael Osmar de Oliveira e Costa
Lapware exists in the realm between traditional tableware and cheap plastic/paper plates. There’s a contemporary approach to this eating style. It’s suggestive of a more casual experience that’s highly focused on social interactions. Each piece looks awkwardly shaped but exquisitely molded to fit the unique nooks and crannies of the human body. It’s adaptive and functional and I’m hungry.
Designer: Andrea Marin
What will education be like in the 21st century? The “Conceptual Age” has just begun. In this era, the creative and sensitive, conceptual thinkers will play a major role and in their education, school plays the most important role. Human intelligence produces technical and social change at a pace the traditional classroom can no longer deny. Since students have the opportunity to research online, teachers no longer have mastery over knowledge. They become mediators and facilitators, they need to promote the students‘ ability to work scientifically.
Designer: designaffairs STUDIO
Why is it the kitchen and dining area are in two separate rooms? They function together in a symbiotic relationship more so than any other in a house. Space is a premium so designers are thinking modularity and this exercise in efficient cooking/dining is probably just one of many concept we’ll see . It’s a dining table with a work/cook top; or is it a work/cook top with a dining table? In one fell swoop, you get both with the added bonus of an office nook. The ceramic cook top is insulated with silicon to protect that beautiful wood beneath. I want this badly.
Designer: Jonas Buck
Under normal circumstances a drinking glass with an extra hole in it is a messy proposition. Unless that hole was designed by Alvaro Lagos Vasquez. His “O-Glass” design cleverly uses the base of a normal lowball glass by inserting a hole. Now you can use this magical hole to hold a napkin, pencil, spike etc. Plus, it creates an easy storing potential in bars. Genius! This got me thinking, what other common items could be improved by the simple inclusion of a hole?
Designer: Alvaro Lagos Vasquez
And that’s where it stays, until of course you want it offa there! It’s also easy to clean. What I’m talking about of course is “Board Stories”, a collection of furniture made for your customization in any chalk color you do so desire. What we’ve got here is the table. So nice you aughtta be able to use it for meetings, dining, drawing, and whatever else you might seem to beed it for. It’s versatile.
Designer: Board Stories
I swear this lampshade has nothing to do with the occult. Really! Actually it has a lot more to do with nature and the unzipping of poly propylene sheets. That’s what the “ZIPP Lampshade” is made of, poly propylene, all arranged nicely in a flower-like shape for your total enjoyment in brightness! In its flowery flower state, the shade is approximately 50cm in diameter. Zip or unzip however you choose. Will you make an American football? Or maybe a jellyfish?
Designer: Arash and Kelly
I am not even kidding. This project has German people, lasers, and dentists who use lasers on German people in it. German people in the pre-cursor to the project, if you will. The designer of this project, Muna Sawas, found 50% of Deutsch citizens to be totally afraid to visit their dentist. So what’s to be done? Make a practically pain-free, totally awesome laser therapy method. With lasers! On the teeth!
Designer: Muna Sawas
Oh Cup Noodle, you fed me all thru college when I was broker than a joke. You flavored my palette with harmonies of sweet and saltiness. How I enjoyed the gummy texture of your noodles and fondly remember burning my tongue several times because I couldn’t wait for you to cook and cool. Sadly Cup Noodle, your styrofoam packaging is a big no-no so I want to show you this one; collapsable, disposable, and much easier to ship.
Designers: Joonggeun Ahn , Jeongmi Lee, Hyunseok Moon & Donghee Suh
OM is a wireless, optical mouse with an incredibly slim profile. If you thought Apple’s Magic Mouse was too slim, your hand is probably cramping up just thinking about using this. Wait up tho! Studies show most of the strain on your hands comes from the extremities so this mouse was made extra wide – almost as wide as an average hand to provide full support. At only 10mm at the highest point, it almost feels like you’re using nothing at all – just a bunch of people pawing at their desks. I’d love a picture of that.
Designer: Lukasz Natkaniec
The City Cycle is a chainless bike that uses a pedelec system in tandem with new belt technologies. Designed for urban commutes, which on average are shorter than 6 km, the City Cycle is intended for people who would otherwise stick to cars. Ask most people why they don’t ride their bikes to work and the answer is distance. Nobody wants to walk into work exhausted. Comfort is a key factor so before you naysayers poo-poo electric bikes for being an oxymoron, think about what it will take to get masses of people to switch back to two wheels.
Designer: Christian Vollmer
I am starting to lose sight of what is more important as we all try to move forward in the green movement. As global warming converges on us all, is conserving water or conserving trees more important? Can both these conservation efforts live harmoniously? Case in point: this design by Yang So-yeon called “Foldish”. It is a wonderfully thought out design that creates paper barriers for your meal, therefore eliminating the need for separate disposable dishes for each of your courses.
Designer: Yang So-yeon
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