The Adapt Electrical System is a portable unit that consists of an extension cord on a retractable reel, a surge protector and waterproof outlets that attach into docking ports along the cord. The system adapts to a user’s varied needs for outdoor electrical power, combining the service now provided by a jumble of incompatible, inefficient and unsafe items.
Designer: Drew Johnson
The Hose Wheel solves problems of storage, maintenance and use that occur with common garden hose reel storage products. This all-in-one unit allows the user to unroll and rewind the garden hose without having to pull or touch the hose. The unit travels to point of use, thus avoiding kinks, tangles and dirty hands.
Designer: Matthew Swinton
Twin is a bookshelf representing the two sides of Istanbul, Asian and European, and the bridges connecting them. It compares this connection with the relation of twins. The bookshelf is a cabinet when closed, when it is pulled to sides, the shelves representing the bridges become apparent. Via the selves with rails the Twin becomes dynamic.
Designer: Zeynep Cinisli
Today’s range of phones leaves a lot to be desired in terms of design, the aim of the game being to cram as many functions as possible into a lumpy box of endless buttons.
The S-series however steps back from this approach and sets off in a radically different design direction by combining sleek, sophisticated styling with top quality materials all put together in a compact package, to make the whole experience of looking at and owning the phone just as pleasurable as using it.
Designer: Simon Enever
This set counterbalances the narcissistic characteristic of a mirror by superposing them with wooden frames. When we take our keys and gloves just before going out, our reflection is melting partially into a still nature in constant evolution. Between presence and image, a multi functional set whose minimalist plasticity contrasts with the dynamism of the life which it reflects.
Designer: Marina Bautier
The observatory consist of tree buildings: One building for each of the telescope, and one warm room. Around the building small plateaus are placed for parking and putting up smaller telescope.
When people reach the observatory, the first thing they will see is the rather strange and unfamiliar view of two tall cocoons like structures and in front a distorted smaller wooden building.
Designer: MAPT Studio
This chair originates from a workshop with the Campana brothers in 2003. The theme was “containment” and “constructing from deconstruction”. Furniture often take new shapes when they are being used. The user can, for example, alter the appearance of a chair by laying his/her coat over the seat and there by quietly stating “taken”.
Designer: Broberg Ridderstrale
The Tip Bright creates a more interactive experience for punters in the hopes of relieving them of precious funds for starving bar staff. In a society like the United Kingdom, tipping is not common so making an experience out of the occasion is imperative. With sound to light technology the globe glows bright when the money is dropped into it.
Designer: Steven Stewart Watts
The Origami table is a unique patented system. You’ll find other glass top tripod tables on the market, but none with an efficient flat-packed frame which works without fixing. The structure is so clever and simple that the manufacturing only needs two steps; stamp and bend. And that’s the secret behind why the Origami tables are such good value.
Designer: Anthony Dickens & Tony Wilson
Cocktail glass designed for Bombay Sapphire Design Competition. The base of the cocktail glass is solid blue glass with a “dagger like” piece of silver which would go through it. The top part of the glass would then be melted to the piece of silver giving it a delicately, elegant appeal.
Designer: Adam Pockette
The Trinity project is an important regeneration project for one of the most degraded fringe locations in the Eastern edge of the City of London. Despite being based on basic rectangular shapes, some sectors of the building’s envelopes are gently tilted in space to adjust the otherwise prismatic volumes to the geometrical specifications of the site, allowing the buildings to: Adjust to the irregular contours of the site;
Architect: Foreign Office [ Project Page ]
As a barrier-free, mobile and flexible kitchen, the Ideal Kitchen, with its L-shaped countertop, offers a high degree of design freedom and a very high level of design, in the opinion of the jurors. The countertop is suspended from the wall, so that it can be set at any height.
Designer: Holm Giessler & Sandra Leufgen
Mosquito is the result of a reflexion relating to the humanism and the autonomy of the piece of furniture. A first gesture towards the `not furniture’. The answer takes to the form an alive being. A chair autonomous, obvious, readily agreeing to play the part of comfortable chair. The Mosquito chair is carried out starting from one only bent timber sheet.
Designer: Michael Bihain
RSS
Subscribe to our Newsletter
