Suitcase Chair! Yep! I want this because of reasons!
Using the incredible foldability of a triangular pattern to the consumer’s advantage. Designer Patrick Sung used the idea to allow custom shapes to be wrapped, minimising excess packaging. The geometric pattern can also be folded into standard box sizes.
This week Phil Cuttance’s Faceture vases have been circulating the web - although the packaging above lacks the beauty and arty video to complement the design, it seems a real application of an interesting form. I hope this will be available soon!
This Thermometer Lets You Actually Feel The Temp Outside
The Cryoscope Haptic Weathervane, created by Robb Godshaw of Syyn Labs, conveys the temperature by allowing you to experience it. Syncing with Wi-Fi to online weather reports, you can touch this aluminum cube to actually feel the outside temperature rather than simply reading about it through numbers or whimsical sunshine icons.
THE T-SHIRT ISSUE with Linda Kostowski
The T-Shirt issue is an interdisciplinary collective that combines fashion, design and technology into unique basic apparel, ranging from daily wearables to conceptual installations.
Their ultimate mission is to lift the hurdle between possible and impossible and redefine the aesthetics of all things jersey.
Digital Portraits
Digital t-shirt project with Linda Kostowsk.
Three people are portrayed digitally by scanning their bodies. the output of this scan is a 3d file, which resolution is defined by the amount of polygons. linked with their biographical memories a digital twin of the body is thus created, which expands and personifies the garment in a formal poetic way.
NO 419
After hearing a story about a boy brought up by a wolf i wanted this more than anything else. the wolf would have accompanied my nocturnal wanderings, would have eagerly shared my reconnaissances and sometimes my thunderous sighs.
The Nepa Lamp is a two-dimensional “lamp silhouette” that stands six feet. It’s wall-mounted and equipped with friction hinges to allow the piece to pivot away from the wall. (via Lamps by Giles Godwin-Brown | Design Milk)
“The Bicycle bench was designed as a way to help recycle parts of the hundreds of old rusty damaged bicycles, left to die, chained to the lamp posts of New York City. By reutilizing and welding discarded tubes and saddles the old bike parts can be re-incorporated into the public realm as a simple useful urban furniture piece. The concept also wishes to constitute a sculptural exercise that reminds us of the importance of the bicycle as a valid and ecological mode of transportation even in a city as hectic and impatient as New York.”
via Sebastian E
