Ask any cook what are the most dreaded cooking tasks, and they will probably tell you – peeling, chopping, cutting, grating, and other wonderfully tedious food preparation activities. And how about a smelly and messy challenge of peeling garlic? Thank goodness for a London-based industrial design consultancy Goodwin Hartshorn and their wonderful little invention called …
If natural organic interior is what you are striving for in your home and feel the best when in and around one, have a look at what a Polish design studio ABADOC has in store for you – alder wood and stainless steel floor lamp called Woobia. The studio designers say that Woobia lamp “was …
One of the best quotes by Nick Vujicic, a motivational speaker who was born with a rare disorder characterized by absence of all four limbs, goes like this: “For every disability you have, you are blessed with more than enough abilities to overcome your challenges.” This couldn’t be more true for Michael “Mike” Timble, a …
Have you heard of “transient living patterns” or “transient dwelling”? If you live in a place only a brief time or staying somewhere a short period, than you have engaged in transient living and have become a transient dweller. Melbourne-based design studio Sibling Nation, founded by eight young architects and University of Melbourne alumni, created …
KamKam Studio is a design group from Seoul consisted of two designers – Hyunjin Seo and Jaekyoung Kim. Their newest project is the KAMP Sofa. But this sofa is not an ordinary one – it’s portable. Yes, it is possible to enjoy the comfort of a real sofa big enough to comfortably sit two even …
Here’s another pioneering product from the Chicago-based Innovation Factory. Earlier, we have featured a project by one of Innovation Factory’s interns Sanjeet Das called Opus, a combination of an iPhone and iPad stand and amplifier, and, this time round, we are showcasing the Magic Cube, a modern take on Rubik’s cube but with numbers and …
Romaniticism and intimacy are not extinct. Well, at least not in the case of furniture design thanks to Il Treno, a dining compartment reminiscent of sentimental train journeys. Designed by a Dutch studio Tjep, which was founded in 2001 by the renowned Dutch Designer Frank Tjepkema, Il Treno (‘train’ in Italian language) is a modular …
German designer Markus Krauss made this multi functional rocking chair and named it Sway. It is a surprisingly comfortable and adjustable piece of furniture. The Sway rocking chair is big enough for two people. It has a comfortable padded seat and a cleverly designed steel frame that allows it to be used in numerous different …
Simon Frambach is a German product designer and Soft Light is not the first of his products that can be used for illumination, but it is definitely unique and conspicuous. This soft, pumpkin shaped product gives off soft light, but its nature lets it be used as a crevice filling device, or a simple pillow. …
Mix and match some architecture, famous London landmarks and a board game, and you get a cleverly designed monochromatic chess set called Skyline. Designers Ian Flood and Chris Prosser say that they “developed the idea over a few chess matches and went on to model the pieces in 3D.” “From there we had them 3D …