Peg from Steffi Min on Vimeo. Shoeboxdwelling: Remember old wooden clothes pegs? The reason you do is that they have been around for a while, and people still use them. All thanks to a simple and functional mechanism. So, when Brooklyn based designer Steffi Min took this innocent peg shape and turned it into a lamp, it felt like […]
Peg Lamp
High Five Lamp
Popgadget: I’d love to say that I always turn things off when I leave a room, but like everyone there are times when I forget, which is a massive drain on energy and money as well. In order to address this problem and encourage people to turn off lights and electrical products when they leave a room, designer Da Deng […]
Pickmaster Plectrum Cutter
JoshSpear: This is genius on so many levels. A simple metal punch that lets you turn any piece of sheet plastic like an expired ATM card, into a guitar pick. Pickmaster [JoshSpear]
Training Dresser Easy For Kids
Shoeboxdwelling: This cool children’s dresser by Peter Bristol has drawers that are shaped as their predetermined contents. Called Training Dresser, the piece comes in two gender specific designs. Beautiful, fun, promotes tidiness, made from all kid-friendly components… Here is how the designer describes it: ‘Like Dr. Suess and Pixar, the Training Dresser is for more than one audience. The informative drawers […]
BARE Baby Bottle
Gizmodiva: Mother’s know best and this has been proved time and again, this time with new Baby Bottle called BARE. Shun the bottles that can easily be passed off as poor substitutes of a mothers breast but BARE is designed emulate a mother’s breast in terms of shape, texture and movement, as well as providing the air-free storage and delivery […]
Rainbow Bank
Designboom: Japanese practice emmanuelle moureaux architecture + design has completed ‘sugamo shinkin bank’, a credit union located in shimura, japan. the design, an offset volume of rainbow-like layers, is the third branch designed by moureaux, with the first two located in tokiwadai and niiza. Stacked slabs in twelve saturated colors dominate the exterior facade and contrast the stark white panels […]
Bread Spoon
Inhabitat: Now here’s an idea we can really sink our teeth into. Designer Siren Elise Wilhelmsen seeks to revolutionize the concept of the spoon, (which, let’s face it, hasn’t seen much improvement in the past hundred years or so), with her incredible edible bread spoons. Not only is the idea smart, funny, and kind of cute, it also looks like […]
Book Stand
Studio-kg: Most book stands are conceived for reading out in public while standing up. Alternatively, people tend to do silent reading resting the book on a table or holding it up with their arms in a rather tiring position. Read In Peace [Studio-kg]
Choreographed Letters
Dance Writer from Typotheque on Vimeo. Swiss Miss: Dance Writer converts text into a choreographed sequence of poses based on the shapes of the letters, enabling users to send animated messages to their friends via email, or just enjoy the graceful movement in full Retina-quality resolution on their own displays. Absolutely stunning. Dance Writer [Swiss Miss]
Feel the Kiss
Gizmodiva: This isn’t February but romance is in the air. The Kajimoto Laboratory at the University of Electro-Communications is conducting research into tactile communications, with the aim of creating a device which can successfully pass on the feeling of a kiss. Basically if you take the device in your mouth and turn it with your tongue, then your partner’s device […]