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
Alexandre Boucher believes you only need one. A tabletop is carefully balanced on one large offset pillar. This minimalistic approach creates a sense of openness above and below the table, as if it were levitating.
Designer: Alexandre Boucher
The Water Shelter project responds to the needs of rural populations in developing countries who live in areas of recurring floods, with a geographical focus on the Zambezi basin in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The design provides the user with the necessary tools and information to migrate temporarily and efficiently. Encouraging self sufficiency at each stage of the disaster.
Designer: Robert Nightingale
Vitra Edition is a laboratory that gives designers, architects and artists the freedom to create experimental furniture objects and interior installations. Their choices of materials, technologies, applications and formal concepts are not limited. Working without the constraints of market and production logic has a liberating effect and results in surprising solutions and new ways of seeing design.
Source: Vitra [ Pictures provided by: Michael Kangas ]
ADM is a concept for managing music productions on a mixerboard. The concept is based on visualising the actual route of the audio signal, using traditional paraphernalia in a structured way and in different combinations.
Mixerboards have gone through a tremendous process of development since the first analogue mixers.
Designer: Christian Sterngren
A gigantic jewellery case in the shape of a drawer where you can store your favorite necklace. Inspiration comes from intarsia*, a common technique that was used in furniture manufacturing in former times. In most cases people store jewellery in jewel cases but this becomes storage in a new way.
Designer: Malin Lundmark
Those of us that use hairdryers know the constant shake and waggle motion can be harmful to our wrists. That’s why the dual-handle Sportivo hairdryer designed by Danny Chu ergonomically corrects the way we hold our hair dryers. It even comes with a polycarbonate cantilever holder from which the second handle rests in.
Designer: Danny Chu
Based on a personal computer that accompanies you through your day and context-oriented docking stations at personal spaces like in the office or at home. Those stations are matching the needs of the user in their particular surrounding, like home entertainment in the living room or conferences and multi-tasking at the office.
Designer: Felix Schmidberger
Museum extensions are a tricky predicament and something of a teeth-cutting exercise for any architect. Steven Holl Architects’ extension to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City has torn up the rule book of established codes of extension conduct and transformed the existing building into one of the most exciting exhibition spaces we’ve seen.
Architect: Steve Holl
People often have trouble figuring out how to store their hairdryer. Some leave it by the sink, some hang it across the vanity, and some hide it in cabinetry. The Plug Hook by Naoya Edahiro solves the issue by repositioning the plug below the hook so the hair dryer’s rubber loop can hang from it neatly.
Designer: Naoya Edahiro
An exploration of tangible vs virtual in relation to real and perceived value. Using google image search, we browsed through some of the most expensive and often famous jewelry in the world, the low-res images we found were stolen, doctored, then transferred to leather, creating a tangible new incarnation.
Designer: Mike and Maaike [ Via: Mocoloco ]
When visiting a friend in the countryside, I noticed all the little nooks and crannies on his property and thought how wonderful to suddenly stumble upon a beautiful object that invites two people to sit on it and enjoy each others company. The original tete-a-tete seat was created during the Victorian era for intimate conversation in the parlor.
Designer: Laurie Beckerman
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