Daylight Entrance by Daniel Rybakken

If you look the first pictures you are not looking what you think you are looking... There is no window anywhere and the light you see it is not natural it's artificial.

Easy to guess why is posted here... Really realistic, it makes you feel as if you where looking to the light path of a window so it seems like true daylight. The light is made using LED panels that simulate light  casting trough windows. The last picture is how the stairs looked before the LED panels were installed.

By the way, you should surf this guys web because he has some neat things... And he has a lot of light control with some interesting ideas going on.




Daniel Rybakken Design Studio

Twist and Lock by Harry Thaler

The whole concept is really simple, and you can do infinite things with it. The crates used in the pictures are special ones but you could translate this into regular crates in some similar way and also get funky results.

'twist & lock' by harry thaler is a system that allows the user to lock special crates together
in order to create different combinations according to the desired needs. users can apply
the system in different ways, for instance, as a book or wine shelf.

Harry Thaler

NAP by Kasper Salto

A chair made of pure nylon (polyamide-PA6). It's a simple good design that is also very slim and made with few parts. There is a picture of the vacuum suction mould which is interesting to see (I am obviously not in the field...) and a seating sample made to test basic geometries. The company that is going to sell the chairs is Fritz Hansen.










Kasper Salto

The Page by Jae Kim

As you can watch on the video below this is just a prototype (semi transparent e-ink) of a newspaper e-reader. The concept seems bold and clever to me.

And I am one of those that like to think that color e-ink is the future of print (or not printed really). Sorry for the ipad, which I love (Mac lover and happy user) but for reading e-ink is superior.

The video explains the idea perfectly.


THE PAGE_Adaptive Delivery Device from Scott Liao on Vimeo.







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Seasons by Nao Tamura

An inspiring idea... flexible plates that resemble natural leaves but made of silica sand. There is not much that I can add after looking the pictures. The pictures are self explanatory. You can use it like regular plates or deform them for different culinary presentations, you can even give a roll with the food inside and unroll it to eat the food. It Seems like fun.

Nao Tamura

Max Lamb for Commissioned

I like the fact that this stone alike furniture don't have anything to do with rock but they have a really interesting process of making them. Just watch the video...

Poly Chair from Max Lamb on Vimeo.


"amongst his pieces
is 'scrap poly furniture' whereby a process of destruction is used to create a chair, stool
and bench. here a variety of simple tools are used to make the furniture manually. the piece
are carved and the soft tactile polyurethane rubber finish is applied on top."

Max Lamb

Elastic Wood by Gilli Kuchik

Ok, I completely dislike the chair... but the empiric investigation of flexible joints for wood furniture is really interesting. Think of the possibilities, and when you think about flexible joints it doesn't need to be wood, it could be any material really...

What you can follow in the sequence of pictures is that the chair is really easy to assemble thanks to the flexible material used with the wood. It would have been nice to know what is the flexible material we are talking about as there is no info on this matter.



















Gilli Kuchik of Israel design group Bakery

Chairless by Alejandro Aravena for Vitra

I like the concept but I am sure that after a while it gets really uncomfortable... I don't get why they produce something that is an uncomfortable design, specially when we are talking about Vitra that has a history of great design. It doesn't make much sense, at least to me... Maybe someone can give some other opinion here!! Just feel free to leave a comment.






Alejandro Aravena

Alpha Blast by Marco Dessi

I just discovered sandblast... It's not like I haven't heard it before, but I never realized how easy is the process and how many things you can do with sandblast. Looking through this article about a Mouthblown glass designed in 1952 by Hans Harald Rath and redesigned thanks to a really easy sandblasting technique on its surface, really opened my mind to a whole new set of possibilities. The designer of the reinterpretation is Marco Dessi. You can just check in the pictures the whole process:






Then I am posting some videos (nothing great to speak in the name of truth) with some of the infinite posibilities of sandblasting and different examples of sandblasting machines depending on the material applied. And this are just few examples:

Metal:


Jeans:


Glass: