The schools in Mdantsane, South Africa are poorly equipped and lack basic facilities such as chairs and desks which are required to run the schools. With over 7000 students and only 3 schools, the volume of desks to the space available is another key factor to consider. For this reason the design is a combination of both a desk and chair. Each desk is formed from recycled rubber.
Designer: Thomas Brown
Ilo is a furniture collection for children and teenager, which convinces through its modular composition, its ability to grow with the child and the convertibility of parts of the collection. The heart of Ilo, a quarter-circle-shaped corner piece, connects the end walls and can easily be assembled by the customer.
Designer: Carmela Niederhauser & Nadine Grau
M-toy is a new type MP3 music Player for kids. Most often and not, kids love to draw pictures. In this new interface the OLED display shows multiple distorted images. Spinning the display helps reveal what that image is and if it’s correctly identified, the music starts to play thru the integrated speakers.
Designer: Sung-kyu Nam
The action of this vase illustrates the state of the flower within. Made from handcrafted pewter, the vase stands proud when it is full of water, though as the level of water evaporates, the vase starts to lie down. An obvious metaphor for life. A great visual cue to know when to add more water. Now you have no one but yourself to blame if you can’t keep that precious rose alive longer than 2 days.
Designer: David Sweeney, Jeff Virangkabutra & Michael Korn
This workstation lets people works outdoors. It belongs in urban, public spaces and can serve as an accessible alternative to stuffy or claustrophobic offices. The Workstation can be set up on a university campus, in the backyard between apartment buildings, or in modern office landscapes. The Seats have circular segments, allowing people to sit next to or across from each other.
Designer: Mathias Schnyder
The Guide Dog is a lamp that shows you the light, literally. When you enter a dark room, just whistle and fido will light up. This concept attempts to bring a more humane approach to technology, creating a natural interaction between the user and the product.
Designer: Nicolas Gonzalez Garrido
Magnetic Salt and Pepper Shakers come together in a warm embrace to add a stylish touch to your table setting. Based on the power of attraction, the set conveniently seals at the center thanks to magnets positioned on the shaking surfaces. Each side has holes in different places so as not to mix their contents, and the set can be a napkin weight when not sealed together.
Designer: Anju Dixit
This cordless hanger phone enables new ways and new spaces to place your phone when not in use. “Hanging up” your phone takes on a whole new meaning as phone calls are ended by simply the hanging action. Letting it stand on a table also turns it off. Comes with an induction charger and transmitter in the form of a hook. It looks a little uncomfortable to hold and I assume it’ll using some sort of motion sensing technology ala iPhone.
Designer: Alec Wong & Donn Koh
Picking fruit from a tree could be a metaphor for recharging and reusing. This hollow steel tree is exactly that. It charges three pear-shaped lights that can be picked off for use. They’ll stay illuminated for an hour and when you’re out of “juice”, just put them back on the tree.
Designer: Nick Foley
The innovative puzzle dinner tray is intended to make children become aware of a correct table setting as early as possible – a simple and amusing way for children to learn. The tray includes a large and a small knife, fork and spoon, as well as a plate and tumbler. The tray is made of melamine and stands firm on non-slip feet.
Designer: Leon Ranmeier [ Manufacturer: RoyalVKB ]
When furniture is fused with high tech kit the results are often about as comfortable and stylish as sandpaper g-string. But the new Speaker Chair by designer Pinju Chen defies the norm with its charmingly curvaceous lines and comfy interior cushion, which sent us from nought to napping in only a few seconds… until we were suddenly awoken by some beefy rock riffs.
Designer: Pinju Chen
A magazine rack designed to purposely look disheveled and disorganized. Each rack can be rearranged to create all kinds of chaos tho I have a feeling, as anal as I am, I’d probably just line them all up in a neat way. Ugh, that so defeats the purpose.
Designer: Evan Gurgui
Not by itself of course. You have to do it yourself but what’s interesting here is that it can be used as a chair or chaise lounge. The design is a bit weird with that heeled foot. They should have taken it a step further and lined the interior frame with rawhide and wood to triple as a cat nook.
Designer: Boris Novachi Bojic
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