Modern Wild Looking Tables. "QUANTUM SHOT" #665Link - article by Elena Pushkelia and Avi Abrams Strange surfaces to keep your food from tipping over... supposedly Since our last Psychedelic Furniture Showcase modern custom-designed furniture did not become any tamer - the wildest forms and strangest materials continue to appear disguised as tables, chairs and other humble furniture items. Underneath their sheer utilitarian, even prosaic, use there hides a STYLE STATEMENT worthy of late Beatles Sgt. Pepper... See for yourself: Levitating Cube Tables by Rock, Paper, Robot have become quite a rage since Wired Magazine's recent exposure.
(images via) Trinity is a variant of the award-winning 'Infinity + 1' table, designed by Jason Heap: (images via) Another interesting "Infinity Table" based on the well-known symbol of infinity, can be seen here (left image below): Infinity Mirror Table (also seen above right) can be quite mesmerizing for those looking deep into it: (images via) (the Domino table by designer Chris Pritchard)
Magic Spoon by Ivan Erkic. The Magical Bend I have seen tons of elegant flatware but none of them as ingenious as this! The Magic Spoon is a delightful set of spoons, knives and forks that have built-in clasps at the end. Yes, exactly the hairpin kind! You can cleverly cling it to your plate while clearing out the dishes, seal pouches or simply be this show-off with cool cutlery! Magic Spoon is a 2010 Kitchen Tools Winner! Designer: Ivan Erkic. SWITCH Screwdriver by Liu Yunlong , Jia Peng, Cheng Peng ,Wang Dongdong & Xin Yaoyao.
A Practical Screw Who wouldn’t like a screw…umm screwdriver that’s practical! The Big O in this concept is that its offers better grip, with the handle swiveling a cool 90 degrees to stand perpendicular to the metal shaft. Now if you want to read a deeper meaning to this post, be my guest…because phrases like “force can be applied with a much stronger grip” and “toughest screws can be tightened more easily” makes me think of double meaning stuff! Designers: Liu Yunlong , Jia Peng, Cheng Peng ,Wang Dongdong & Xin Yaoyao from Jiangnan University. Nail Hammer by Jinsoo Cho & Ahjin Choi. I see carpenters fumble for the nails in their span or gripping a mouthful quite hazardously. The Nail Hammer is an easy solution, where the handle holds a silicon case full of nails and is easily accessible.
I guess this means one less nail swallowed, one finger less hurt and a nail hammered right on its head! Designers: Jinsoo Cho & Ahjin Choi. Bedroom in a box. Bedroom in a box Everything is more convenient when delivered in an all-inclusive box. the Bento Box, the Happy Meal by McDonalds, the iPhone, and now a bedroom. The “Casulo” by designers Marcel Krings and Sebastian Mühlhäuser is a neatly packed box with an entire bedroom suite ready to go. No tools needed and minor assembly required for this IKEA worthy design. The use of styrofoam packing materials has been completely eliminated making this (unofficially) a “Green” product by design. My knee-jerk reaction upon seeing this impressive packing job, had me imagining Wile E. Coyote ordering an entire bedroom from ACME in another misguided attempt to lure the Roadrunner into a trap. Designer: Marcel Krings & Sebastian Muhlhauser [ Via: TreeHugger ]
201011191019.jpg (JPEG Image, 442x700 pixels) - Scaled (79%) Transparent Punch by Kisang Yoon and Kyubok Lee. No-Guessing, Only Clear Punching The Transparent Punch allows you to see where exactly you will be punching the hole in a paper. The red ring guides your placement and saves you from doing a shoddy job. I’m used to the double punch machine, but if a fancy-looking, practical one like this appears, I’m all for it!
Designers: Kisang Yoon and Kyubok Lee. TetraBox Light by Ed Chew. Liquid to Light Designer Ed Chew takes a green step in the right direction with the TetraBox lamp, a light object made from discarded drink packets that would have otherwise ended up in landfills already packed to the brim.
The design is achieved by unfolding the packets and refolding them into hexagonal and pentagonal sections that are then pieced together to form a geodesic sphere or any other desired shape. Here, the Epcot-like ball makes an attractive overhead light and casts an impressive web of shadows and shapes on the surrounding space. Designer: Ed Chew. Simple Ideas That Are Borderline Genius. Looking for more about [term]? Simple Ideas That Are Borderline Genius part 2 Simple Ideas That Are Borderline Genius part 3 Simple Ideas That Are Borderline Genius part 4 Simple Ideas That Are Borderline Genius part 5 Top. Imeüble 2.5 dimension shelf system by Bjørn Jørund Blikstad.
Second and a Half Dimension Shelves This project goes by the name “Imeüble” and it’s a shelving system that accesses not just your eyeballs and book-storing hands, it works with your mind to help you store information the same way you learn to associate words to their meanings! The easiest comparison is one the designer uses: when you read the word “cornfield,” you imagine a field full of corn, not the word “cornfield.” In that the shelf appears to be 2D but is actually 3D, this whole system works in the same environment of learning. Confused? It’s really quite simple and wonderful. As you look at the shelves, they appear to be flat, sideways, weird in some way or another to your eyes. In reality, they’re simple plastic, shaped in a way that instills an image that’s much stronger than it’s actual simple function. In this fabulous work of associations, designer Bjørn Jørund Blikstad hopes to inspire you to take another look at what storing items on these shelves really means.
Fabulovely! Shair single or multiple chair by Jie-Jyun Lyu. Is it One Chair, or is it More? There is more! But there is also one. It is like a spore. A good spore! As the designer Jie-Jyun Lyu says, those who live in a small apartment like to have few pieces of furniture. But when too many people come over, you’ve gotta have more! Each cushion chair combines to become Voltron, which is really big awesome and comfortably powerful. It’s the “Shair.” Course Director: Dr. Designer: Jie-Jyun Lyu. Fruit (Bowl) Loops: 8 Circular Wood, Glass & Metal Designs. Circular forms are a clear choice for storing the rounded forms of fruits – but these creative modern design ideas are anything but obvious. For starters, when someone asks you to pass them this vertical wooden fruit ‘bowl’ just give it a nudge and send it rolling their way – just don’t slip while sliding them the bananas! This nifty set of wood, metal and black-painted plastic half-bowls – also by the artist Helena Schepens – does not have quite the same moves but is still quite dynamic.
From tiny grapes to sizable pears and appleas, each piece of fruit added to or subtracted from the mix changes the angle of the centerpiece. To round it out, other designers have developed turn-style systems allowing you to rotate your fruit into place and pop it out of the mix (like the metal one shown on top or the white wall-hanging repositories at the bottom.