Designer: Maarten Baas

Material: porcelain

Designer: Roel Vandebeek

Produced by Wolters Street furniture

Street furniture from Wolters is at home wherever you put it. It offers unsurpassed comfort to both town and city dwellers and fits easily into any street scene. Our secret? Working together with designers who are just that little bit ahead of the times to produce brilliant street furniture. Besides that, of course, there’s perma-nent innovation, using only quality materials which are built to last and high standards of production in our own workshop.available in natural FSC hardwood or ash, or alternatively treated with colour lazure, available again in most RAL coloursgalvanised steel and is finished in polyester powder coat.

Designers: Jim Hanon-Tan, Paul Kogelnig, Gabriel Heusser

production: Pervisioni

The future of mass production is mass customization. Cutting up Knives is a production of selected knives, modified to become bottle openers through the application of an industrial process.Each bottle opener is individually chosen and cut. Beautiful name brand knives have been ruthlessly trans-formed, while factory rejects and second hand knives have been recycled, modified to become useful once again. Each Opener is functional and unique piece which is still connected to its own unique history.

Designer: Gareth Neal

American Walnut 1200mm x 400mm x 760 mm

Gareth Neal is a london based furniture designer who combines traditional forms and craftsmanship withcontemporary tools and design. neal currently tea-ches design and runs his own studio. most of neal’sdesigns use wood as their core material, sculpting it in a variety of ways. one such example is his CNCmilled pieces which have a boxy outer form that is milled to reveal a baroque like interior. in these pieces,neal uses the preciseness of milling to create the forms with the form. other pieces have a more orga-nicapproach, using fluid forms as supports. likewise, neal has also designed an aluminium rocking chair anda steel rod lamp.

Designer: Takeshi Ishiguro

Produced by Artecnica Inc

Materials:Paper / Fabric

closed:W 11 in, 27.9 cmD 12.75 in, 32.4 cmH 2.25 in, 5.7 cm

opened:W 11 in, 27.9 cmD 27.75 in, 70.5 cmH 11.5 in, 29.2 cm Three .06 Watt LEDsLightbulb: 3V - .06W

Dishrack

Gradient, Ransmeier & Floyd 2005-2008

www.dba-co.com

A dense concentration of rods useful for holding cutlery and thin glassware fades evenly to a spacing large enough to accommodate bowls, plates and pans. A flexible mesh connects the posts, allowing the structure to be twisted open and rinsed. The excess water drains into a tray beneath, which can be emptied and cleaned.

Designer: Sylvain Willenz

Year: 2009

Production: Established & Sons

Types: LandMark Cone / Landmark Roof.

Materials: Steel, opal acrylic / Cone versions available in full Black Soft Touch finish

Dimensions: Tall: 175cm, Reading: 125cm, Table: 38cm

Colours: Orange: RAL: 2004 / Grey RAL: 7038 / Also Black Soft Touch for the Landmark Cone

This series of lights is inspired by outdoor functional devices designed to be seen from the sky. The Landmark Roof light, is inspired by signs found along roads which usually indicate milage and underground gas conduct trails. The Landmark Cone light takes its shape from the well known windsock, a simple textile tube on a pole, used to indicate wind direction. In low winds the wind sock droops and in high wind it floats horizontally, hence the articulated top of the light.

Landmarks development sketch

I don’t have any other words for this work but WOW! Tara Donovan rocks the installation art. From fishing wire to plastic straws, her work is stunning and will leave you asking the question–How? Donovan’s work uses everyday manufactured materials such as Scotch tape, Styrofoam cups, and drinking straws to create large scale sculptures that often have a biomorphic quality. Her sculptures must be assembled and disassembled carefully, which sometimes involve an extremely tedious process. With regards to her artistic process, Donovan explained that she chooses the material before she decides what can be done with it. She noted in an interview that she thinks “in terms of infinity, of [the materials] expanding.” 

Styrofoam Cups, Hot Glue

http://www.acegallery.net/past/d-f/donovantara/taradonovan.htm

I recently found out about Chindogu - the Japanese art of inventing useful things from everyday materials. Very funny ideas that will make you think, why didn’t I think of that? The Wikipedia entry explains it well. Here are some of their sample inventions

AtelierUtopia sent over this great prototype of their Stick Lamp. It comes in 2 sizes and either black or white. Custom colors are available on request.

www.atelierutopia.com/