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Foam sofa search results - Daily Design Joint. A Good Companion for Daydreaming: The CIRRUS Cloud-Shaped Sofa. Company DIZAJNO comes to the market with another non-traditional piece of furniture.

A Good Companion for Daydreaming: The CIRRUS Cloud-Shaped Sofa

Soft clouds floating over the country and their gentle shapes became the main inspiration for the upholstered furniture CIRRUS. Virtually spontaneous composition of elements creates a perfect sofa for various seating and lounge positions. Zieharsofika by Meike Harde. Zieharsofika is a collection of benches and stools created by German designer Meike Harde.

Zieharsofika by Meike Harde

According to the designer, “The benches and stools translate the beauty of a controlled drapery into a bigger dimension. Wrinkles in upholstery products are often hidden by a complicate construction. The fabric should play against his rules and is used as a skin without any creases. Zieharsofika makes the wrinkles to its main topic. It rethinks common upholstery technics and run uses conventional rubber foam mats which, with the help of elastic bands, come out as an ornamental form. Dynimage.ms?v=1&w=226&h=226&img=master:RIZ804.jpg&pad=5&shadow=7&ds=ds4&fill=ffffff& (250×250) Towards happiness: Possibility-driven design by Marc Hassenzahl. Positive Design: An Introduction to Design for Subjective Well-Being.

Top 7 Companies That Let You Work From Home. With an economy based on knowledge workers, estimates suggest that a full 50% of professionals in the United States have jobs that can be performed from home.

Top 7 Companies That Let You Work From Home

In fact, according to the most recent Census findings, the number of people who work out of their houses increased from 9.5 million in 1999 to 13.4 million in 2010, indicating that many more companies are now offering remote jobs. To determine which companies are likely hiring telecommuters in 2014, FlexJobs, the leading site for job searchers seeking ideal work-life balance, has named the top 100 companies that allow or encourage employees to work from home. "From our 2013 data, we were able to determine which companies had the most telecommuting jobs posted throughout the past year," says Sara Sutton Fell, CEO of FlexJobs. "Based on this analysis, it's clear which employers embrace the option to work remotely, and it's a great list of companies for job seekers who want to keep an eye on flexible options in 2014.

" 1. Best Of. With 3 years+ of writing/babbling/bitching/inspiring; you might just miss a gem.

Best Of

So, we’ve highlighted the best blog posts and YouTube videos in each category. (We’ll update often.) Enjoy! Living a Nomadic Lifestyle - BecomeNomad. Living a Nomadic Lifestyle.

Living a Nomadic Lifestyle - BecomeNomad

Main : Katrin Greiling. Wild Chair by Jason Goh. For those of you that are passionate about remarkable furniture design, here is a touch of remarkable you can bring to your home for relaxing and having some fun with your loved ones" Squishy Monster Fishy is this lovely wild chair that has been born out of a story that the grandmother of the designer Jason Goh used to say to him so that he would eat all the fish she made for lunch instead of just playing with it.

Wild Chair by Jason Goh

Want to know the story? Or you already guessed it? The grandmother said that if he kept playing with the fish balls, these would eventually turn into a big hairy monster and eat him up! Enignum-Lounge-Chair.jpg (600×400) Self-Structured Textile - InteriorZine. Crafted systems. XXXX_Sofa by Yuya Ushida for Ahrend. Following our video interview with designer Yuya Ushida, this film demonstrates the earlier bamboo version of his Sofa_XXXX expanding seating system, which is made from thousands of components.

XXXX_Sofa by Yuya Ushida for Ahrend

Ushida developed the concept while studying at Design Academy Eindhoven. Here are some more images of Yuya Ushida's expanding plastic sofa for Dutch company Ahrend: Called XXXX_Sofa, the piece is made of 8000 sticks and 2000 rings that snap together. The components are injection-moulded from recycled plastic bottles. A stool version with 600 parts is available in kit form. Amazing transforming furniture concepts. Space comes at premium these days.

Amazing transforming furniture concepts

Every now and then, we come across some of the most innovative space saving furniture concepts. Biomimetics. Rising Furniture: Robert Van Embricqs' Unique Folding Furniture. Flotspotting: Igor Lobanov's Mind-Bending Wormhole Chair. This may be the most creative and unique design for a flat-pack chair I've ever seen.

Flotspotting: Igor Lobanov's Mind-Bending Wormhole Chair

It consists of two identical, racetrack-shaped frames each supporting an elastic material and with zippers running around their perimeters and the two holes in the center. You fold each piece into a "C" shape and zip one interior circle to its counterpart on the other side. Then you zip the two pieces together and bang, you've got the Wormhole Folding Seat. Nomad Furniture: design, case studies, and philosophy. I made this stand very quickly -- in an hour or so -- to serve a sudden need at my second-to-last last technical writing job.

Nomad Furniture: design, case studies, and philosophy

UConn gave us nice desks and chairs, but the furniture did not bow to the notion of vertical space. I built this hasty desk-stand to hold current projects and references on the shelf, and to sandwich underneath anything else I had to shove under there, from books to paper piles. Stool Chair on Behance. Design Book - More Furniture in 24 Hours : un album sur Flickr. The Alarming Clock: Wake Up to the Sound of a Woodpecker. Modern Mortise: Burr Puzzle Stool in Pink Metal. A jumble of hot-pink aluminum tubes come together to form a stool using an ancient ‘burr puzzle’ method of assembling the pieces. You-De Chen and Chin-Hua Lin have modernized the wood burr puzzle, in which six wood pieces in two different shapes are joined in a particular way to create extremely strong joints. In the new version, fourteen pieces of metal in four shapes form a more complex type of joinery.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Maggie Macnab by Design Matters. Sacred Geometry 101E: Metatron's Cube. Spidron. Suppression and Undervaluing of the Arts. Danger: Lack of Support for the Arts History shows that art in all forms has the ability to create new connections, catalyze movements, and transcend barriers that divide us. Art has the ability to transcend the ego, the rational mind and habitual reactions and to touch directly the feelings and essence of an individual. The arts can be an agent of change and can help us create a thriving world, so why aren’t they encouraged more? Why is artistic expression so undervalued in mainstream society? The answer seems to lie in the current power structure. Many forms of art are suppressed. Opportunity: Art in All Forms Can Literally Change the World.