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Exchange is a dining table designed by Tanner Svoboda to promote interaction between the users so that they can gain the benefits associated with having communal meals. He designed the table with carefully placed cutouts to give the users a subtle sense of being brought together, which also increases eye contact as well as promotes sharing to create interaction.
Continue readingThis Portable Lap Desk Installation No.1 is designed to provide users a work space that is flexible, versatile, focused and tidy. The desk consists an extremely space saving wall-mounting solution, and could be stored flat against the wall. The bamboo-made desk is removable from the wall bracket which allows the user to use it as a lap desk in different places at home. The desk also consists a groove across the top, which can be used as a phone or tablet stand to improve the product's user experience.
Continue readingSH12 is a wall clock, which plays on the relation of an object and its shadow to create concealment and exposure. It represents the subconscious nature of time, and reveals hours only by its shade / shadow. Shadow, is a living thing which only follows something that is alive. Time cannot be seen. Reality is controlled by time, and unreality emerges in shadow. The true essence of the passing hours is masked beneath an elastic fabric. A functional design, combining both hard and soft materials, mysteriously veils part of itself beneath a silky surface to bring forth the shadow.
Continue readingThe Edge - Beirut Collection is inspired by the designer's home-city, Beirut. It is an interpretation of a city that is vulnerable yet resilient and adaptable. It reflects a city on the edge through the contradiction of solid yet malleable steel designs. It turns the concept of the hardy steel material on its head by twisting, bending and folding it, all the while retaining its sharp edges. It engages the precepts of Middle Eastern geometric patterns. Despite the challenge of an undeveloped manufacturing industry, these limited edition steel designs were handmade by artisans in Lebanon.
Continue readingHandcrafted scented candle made in upcycled wine bottle. The main objective of the product design was to develop a product which would be different from those offered by the competition. The design team decided to go opposite direction than the competition and come up with different type of the container. The see through label was used instead of the common paper sticker. The scents names were replaced by numbers from 1 to 10 in order to differentiate the product from other candles available on the market. The candle packaging is the cotton bag.
Continue readingInfinitum is an arduino-powered table that turns on when items are placed on it, and which turns off when they are removed. This infinity mirror table is designed for people who never tidy up, but leave their belongings everywhere. Lou decided to design a table that would light up when objects were placed on it, giving people a beautiful backdrop for their objects and the illusion of an infinitely deep hole in the floor. The table is a set of plexiglass mirrors, set up so that the LEDs between them reflect an image back onto the fully reflective mirror.
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