Daytimer watch by Will Alsop with Federico Grazzini for Alessi

Here’s a watch designed by architect Will Alsop with Federico Grazzini for Alessi Watches.

S – Chair Transformers by Beton

Polish designers Beton have created the S – Chair Transformer, a polyethylene foam cover that transforms solid chairs into comfy armchairs.

A thin, rectangular sheet of polyethylene foam is laser cut to create the surface pattern and interlocking mechanism that holds the two ends together without any further fixings.

A thin rectangle of polyethylene foam is laser-cut in such a way, that you can create a tube out of it without using glue or anything like that. Inside the tube you can place any chair (the uglier, the better) and then you can sit on it. The chair is transformed into a comfortable, waterproof armchair… At first the standing tube might be misleading, and it is the easiest way of creating something out of almost nothing.

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Opera by Axel Enthoven

Belgian architect Axel Enthoven has designed a mobile holiday home that resembles the Sydney Opera House.

Called Opera, the canvas holiday home unfolds from a trailer and includes two beds, a toilet, hot and cold water, LED lighting and a mobile hob.

It is handmade and fitted out with materials including hardwood, stainless steel and leather.

The design will be on show at the Design at Work trade fair in Kortrijk, Belgium, next month.

Latis collection by Omvivo

Thomas Coward of Omvivo has designed a collection of bathroom furniture combining timber, stone and solid surface.

The range features a deep rectangular bathtub, undercut at one end.

A wooden shelving unit nests in this space to complete the brick-shaped volume.

Stone basins rest on oak tables with either wooden or stone lower shelves.

The Green Share A Cab

In Utopia you can actually find cabs that are willing to take you to your destination. In that same fantasy land, cabs drivers and passengers actually believe in carpooling! For such fantasy situations is the Carpool LED Top Light. This sprightly indicator harnesses the wind energy via the embedded fan to power the indicating lights. Sadly we don’t live in Utopia and we can never find a cab, let alone share one!

Designers: Xi Ouyang, Yuanbiao Jin, Yao Sun & Yelu Liu

via: yankodesign

Rewrite by GamFratesi

Copenhagen designers GamFratesi have designed a prototype desk with a cave-like shield on top to create an intimate working environment.

Called Rewrite, the desk is presented at GamFratesi’s solo show at The Danish Museum of Art and Design.

See GamFratesi’s Cartoon chair in our earlier story.

GamFratesi recently won Denmark’s Walk the Plank Award 2009 for excellence and craftsmanship in furniture.

wooden toy breakfast | Sasaki Kogei

Love, love, love this new design from Sasaki Kogei. Almost as much as I love the fun fam table manners set.

bubble clox by darien lee

bubble clox by darien lee

american designer darien lee has snet us in image of his recent project 'bubble clox'.
each clock is a metal sphere and are about the size of a softball. citrus orange, berry-blu,
kiwi lime and bubblegum pink are the colors that they are available in.

Pitch stool by Nicolai Czumaj-Bront

Image Courtesy of Nicolai Czumaj-Bront

Pitch stool by Nicolai Czumaj-Bront
words by the designer

American industrial designer, Nicolai Czumaj-Bront has recently launched a new piece called pitch stool. A stool/side table made from reclaimed wood which stool explores a balance and celebration of precision and imperfection. Combining a machining process with reclaimed wood. As the weathered and worn wood is shaped, the beauty and character from the variation in color, material arrangement, and signs of wear are exposed to produce a highly precise yet imperfect design. While the overall form is consistent each piece is individual.

Image Courtesy of Nicolai Czumaj-Bront

Image Courtesy of Nicolai Czumaj-Bront

Image Courtesy of Nicolai Czumaj-Bront

nendo: cord chair for maruni

the cord chair is a result of a collaboration between nendo and maruni.
made from hard maple and steel, the aim was to show off the flawlessness of the wood material,
instead of exposing the chair's underlying metal frame. to achieve this they decided to
hollow out each piece of wood to clad the steel structure.

nendo's design is derived from their exploration of the relationship between materials like
metal wiring within an electrical cord and the rubber that encases it. each of the chair's parts
is carved from wood and left in its most natural state. the 'lightness' of the chair is expressed
through its thin structure. the legs are only 15 mm in diameter with the main steel frame 9 mm.
since each part is only 3 mm wide, the chair can only be constructed by hand.






displaying the strength of the chair
images courtesy of yoneo kawabe


details of the chair
images courtesy of yoneo kawabe

joshua kirsch: concentricity interactive light series

concentricity is an interactive light sculpture series by joshua kirsch. consisting of three

individual pieces - concentricity 96, 80, 16 - each one presents an illuminated white handle
in which a viewer is invited to move in any desired direction. reed switches located within
the sculpture's circuitry sense the movements of a magnet that is contained in each of the
sculpture's handles, translating this information into the form of LED light.


concentricity 96, 2008
aluminum, stainless steel, acrylic, magnet, electronic components
38" x 37" x 8"

concentricity 96 utilizes 96 white LEDs whose light floods through the sculpture's
honeycomb-like aluminum frame, casting a range of shapes and patterns on the wall.


detail of concentricity 96


moving the illuminated white handles to generate light from the 96 LEDs
image courtesy of john minchillo


detail of the honeycomb-like frame

Concentricity 96 from Joshua Kirsch on Vimeo.

Studio profile: Kompott

Polish Design Season: here’s an overview of work by one of Polish design studios, Kompott.

Above: Kompott boxes. Boxes Working on a borderline of the Old and the New, we were tempted to reinterpret the most elementary object for storing – a wooden box. Basing on its construction – using the slots in between the planks – we have developed a simple storage system based on the traditional way of connecting wood.

Suited Case by Erik De Nijs

Dutch Design Week 09: in Eindhoven this week graduate designer Erik De Nijs of Nieuwe Heren presents a set of suitcases that can be combined to form a sofa when not in use.

Called Suited Case, De Nijs aimed to produce something that reminds users of the familiarity of home whilst travelling.

The design includes four pieces of luggage that have been covered in fabrics associated with sofas.

karimoku furniture and isolation unit/teruhiro yanagihara

karimoku new collection

karimoku japanese furniture manufacturer have teamed up with design studio
isolation unit to produce a collection of products.

isolation unit selected international designers; scholten & baijings (netherlands),
sylvain willenz (belgium) and big game (switzerland/belgium) to create furniture
for karimoku, that is contemporary and strictly sustainable; with the aim to promote
the maintenance and conservation of forests and in the long term increase biodiversity
wood gained from the thinning of japanese forests, common waste product of forestry
was used for all products.

the new products will be on display at 100% design tokyo from october 30th to november 3, 2009.