Design student creates coat for homeless people Kelvin Quinnine has shivered through more San Francisco nights than he can count, fog biting through whatever worn-out sleeping bag he pitched onto the sidewalk. He stood last week on Ellis Street with his latest bag wrapped around him. When a young woman wearing a bizarrely baggy coat walked up to him, he cocked his gray-bearded head sideways. "It's a coat for the homeless that turns into a sleeping bag at night," 22-year-old Veronika Scott said brightly. She held an edge out to him. "Goes down to 17 degrees," Scott said. "Is that right?" That's just what Scott is hoping other homeless people will think when they see her invention over the coming year. A design student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Scott conceived her coat-bag for a class project in 2010 - and now she's planning to go national with it. The Detroit native has watched the homeless population of her economically savaged city explode to more than 30,000 in recent years, and she wants to help. Effective in snow
MANOTECA - Italian handmade pezzo unico Monthly Measure Calendar and Ruler by Sebastian Bergne Sebastian Bergne has created a monthly universal calendar that's also a ruler. (Click the image below for full sized image) Says Bergne, "The star can be positioned on the serrated side of the ruler, to show the day of the month and the date. The date can be easily changed by rolling the star along the ruler." The dates are placed every centimeter so Monthly Measure can also be used as a metric ruler. Monthly Measure will be launched at Maison&Objet this weekend. + sebastianbergne.com + atelierdexercices.com
“Conscious Designs” by Tim McKeough | The Walrus | December 2010 Just inside the entrance to the National Design Triennial, at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York, sits the Solvatten, a shiny, black rectangular plastic container resembling an ordinary gasoline canister. Your first reaction upon seeing it might be to wonder why it’s sitting inside a design museum; however, the nondescript package masks world-changing functionality. When the container is set out in the sun, it purifies water — no energy required. It’s not the only unlikely object in the exhibition. Climb the dark, intricately carved wooden staircase to the second floor (the museum is located in Andrew Carnegie’s former mansion, completed in 1902), and you’ll encounter the NeoNurture car parts incubator. As the name suggests, it provides life support for newborn babies, with an enclosure powered by heat-generating car headlights and a motorcycle battery. But it’s not just the curators.
Chalet Béranger by Noé Duchaufour Lawrance photo © Vincent Leroux Despite the traditional chalet exterior appearance, this is no ordinary chalet in terms of its interior. The interior architecture of this family home in the French Alps is inspired by mountains and valleys in a modern character where organic forms are composed around a strip of wood. ARMCHAIR: Derby, Noé Duchaufour for Ceccotti collezioniOCCASIONAL TABLE : Beside you, Noé Duchaufour for Ceccotti collezioniHANGING ARMCHAIR : Bubble chair, Eero AarnioCOFFEE TABLE : Stella, Noé Duchaufour for Ceccotti collezioniFLOOR LIGHTS : Gregg, FoscariniFIREPLACE : interior suspended metal structure / concrete coated exterior. Located in the St. CHAIR: Otto, Noé Duchaufour Lawrance for Ceccotti collezioni BENCH: designed by Noé Duchaufour Lawrance and produced by Rinck Group TABLE: sculptured to measure with concrete coated metal and fiberglass structure and corian top. JACUZZI // photo © Vincent Leroux ARMCHAIR: Slow chair, Bouroullec for Vitra. sources:
Dish of Desire Bird Feeders by Frederik Roijé Frederik Roijé has created a series of bird feeders based on tableware and meal courses. (Click the images below for full sized images) Says Roijé, "As the summer has comes to an end and the cold winter days will arrive, we must not forget the birds." There are four different Dish of Desire models; a one course, two course, three course and five course bird feeder, with one plate for each "course". "Birds need a varied menu. This is hard to find during wintertime. Each model is assembled out of aluminum parts combined with the bone china and red cedar wood. + roije.com DRILL DESIGN COVERS/VERSIONES - www.luisurculo.com Covers Covers is an investigation about architecture as a consumption object or souvenir and its relation with the domestic non-specialized language of everyday things. The work is a reconstruction and review of iconic monumental pieces of architecture whose image is built by objects to change the perception of this universal masterworks. The concept is based on the music covers where the original is manipulated, re-represented, revisited to create something new. The list of originals covered on this work are the following: John Hancock Center (Skidmore, Owings & Merril), Guggenheim Museum New York (Frank Lloyd Wright), National Congress of Brazil (Oscar Niemeyer) Sears Tower (Skidmore, Owings & Merril), New Museum (SANAA), Marina City Towers (Bletrand Goldberg), Fallingwater House (Frank Lloyd Wright), Villa in the Forest (SANAA), Farnsworth House (Mies Van der Rohe), Wozocos (MVRDV).
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- Bag Chair - on Industrial Design Served Portable folding chair is made out of bent plywood or polypropylene. Folding chair that turns into a bag is a great gift idea for travelers, musicians, teachers and students. Simple and elegant, this chair design looks stylish, featuring warm wooden brown colors, pleasant geometric shape and convenient strap for caring it around. Easy to carry chair design is perfect for young people and adults, teens and all who need rest often while traveling. Bag Chair design offers comfort of an ordinary wood chair, plus the ability to use it anytime and anywhere.
boaz mendel: loop chair sep 16, 2010 boaz mendel: loop chair ‘loop chair’ ‘loop chair’ by boaz mendel, is constructed from seven boards of varying lengths that are connected in a loop by hinges. the complete object is a platform for the creation of a wide variety of furniture. folding the hinges and affixing the shape with the help of special connectors, produces a different piece of furniture in each of its various states. three of the various positions in which the loop chair can be arranged every folding position has a defined function, and it is possible in a moment to go from a television chair to a bar-stool; from a ladder to a chaise-lounge; from a bookshelf to a coffee table. in total, it is possible for the chair to be arranged in 12 different ways. the connectors for the chair come in a case with all of the varations of the chair printed onto it. ‘loop chair’ is mendel’s final project at the bezalel academy of art and design, jerusalem. from bar stool to step ladder the twelve variations models
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