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Design and ill-advised hyper-links. Often neither.

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Winding Tower

Mieke Meijer has designed the first piece in a series of furniture based on images by German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, known for their series of photographs of industrial structures. “Winding Tower” is based on an image of said industrial artefact and features a display cabinet overhanging one corner in true form mimicry. via Dezeen

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Modular Furniture: Sets

BOXED

“BOXED is a piece of multi-functional and adaptable furniture. It can be a coffee table, a desk, two stools and a lamp. All of these elements can be extended by the simple introduction of another part to suit the user’s need. These parts then all collapse back down to their most basic form, allowing them to be returned to the case that they are stored inside.” -Tyrone Stoddart/creator

Two stools, a lamp and a table are all constructed from a collapsable set of furniture elements that fit into a briefcase. Love at first sight has just been empirically proven. 

via Dornbob

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Modular Furniture: Sets

Stick Insects

Polish designer Jan Godlewski creates ‘Stick Insects,’ a set of modular elements that can be fitted together to construct a variety of forms. Flat surfaces, sticks and metal connectors are the only elements this set needs for countless furniture combinations.

via Dornob

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Modular Furniture: Sets Modos

An elegant Kickstarter campaign, Modos is a modular furniture system made up of wooden boards and aluminium connectors. Modos removes all the tools from the flat-packed furniture domain. The system allows for desks, shelves, tabletop desks, and stools.

via Design Milk

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Modular Furniture: Sets BOB Collection

UK-based furniture designer Paul Kelley showcased his BOB collection at the London Design Festival this year. The BOB collection features copper-clad cubes that are magnetised to form various furniture staples. The magnetism makes assembly simple and additionally, the cubes are compact and lightweight. via Inhabitat

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Modular Furniture: Sets Oneness

Created by designers Kyuhyung Cho and Hironori Tsukue, these tables and chairs clip together with black plastic fasteners that are inserted into holes at each piece’s corner. The collection is titled, “Oneness”. 

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Modular Furniture: Sets Flexible Order

Fabricia Chang designs Flexible Order, a project consisting of stainless-steel tubing rectangles that combine in various ways to create modular furniture pieces.

via Dezeen

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Modular Furniture: Shelving

Designer Rianne Koens, a 2011 DAE graduate, stacks combinations of 12 dimension-varied cabinet draws resulting in Otura Basic, a striking set of modular shelving units.

via Dezeen

Swedish designer Erik Olovsson collaborates with Kyuhyung Cho to produce ROOM Collection. The system is composed of 25 modular units and a low, load-bearing table. ROOM Collection's intention is to act as rooms when 'housing' objects.

via Design Milk

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One of my projects this semester, the 'Oh-sol-e-mio' desk. Put everything where you want it, find everything you need.

*music by the Average White Band, "Put it where you want it".

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Simple, clean storage.

A gorgeous and smart work table is the Borrod Table. Designed by Denmark-based Line Depping,"Borrod table is a project playing with order and disorder. An idea to tidy your working desk in an instant."

The sliding surface of the table opens to reveal a screen for collecting work materials underneath.

via Trend Hunter

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UnderCover OverNight

I want one. Bad.

This is UnderCover OverNight by German exchange student Silvia Terhedebrugge, a cape/bag designed in conjunction with Philadelphia Museum of Art's exhibition, Zaha Hadid: Form In Motion. Terhedebrugge won first place.

"The piece is fashioned as a cape with visible pockets on the outside and secret pockets on the inside that can hold items for overnight trips."

The full story at Design Milk.

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Clap Snap

It's cute. It colourful. It's a USB camera named "Clap Your Hands" that takes the cable out of photo transfers. With 2 megapixels and six colours to choose from, it's the perfect consumer gift. I expect to see this in little design-happy stores soon.

Link via Design Milk

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Favourite Fonts

Typographica has released their favourite typefaces of 2011, there are some beautiful choices in there. I'd shell out for A2 Beckett by Henrik Kubel.

You?

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Jerrycanning

I love that there is a fabulous reuse for Jerrycans. Instructions/design by Quebecois Industrial Designer Samuel Bernier, with just six different materials you can have yourself a pair of striking speakers. Red makes it louder. 

Link via Make

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Modular Mojo

You say ‘modular’, and I say ‘YES!’

Enter Seung Yong Song, a man with a plan1. Designing 8 pieces of fucking fabulous furniture filled with whimsy. Each ‘chair’ starts off with four timber legs and a lacquered white seat, and from there all manner of eccentricities ensue.

The pieces can be placed together to form a bed, or different, totally rad space saving arrangements. Song also designed extra matching pieces of furniture including a rocking chair that holds your clothing with ocky straps or the like, ladder-chairs for vertical storage and even a literal chair lamp.

I AM SO IMPRESS.

For serious, I would throw out all of the furniture I have and use only these bizarre pieces.

I hope you love them as much as I do2.

link via Dornob

for my happiness ↩

or love me enough to send me to this furniture heaven. ↩

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AGNES likes it better when you're older.

I tweeted this last week, but I am still in love with the idea. The design world is seeing a huge burst in 'service design' (TASCI, Huddle, This Is Service Design Thinking) the new go to buzz word. But this development, I like. As the US population ages (with less births and longer lives), public spaces (and their design) needs to be rethought. The solution? AGNES. 

AGNES is a suit that the young and able can wear to catch a glimpse of how they will feel in another 40-60 years. I love this for so many reasons. It's a great example of what design can do. MOAR OF THIS LESS CHAIRZ PLZ*.

*No hard feelings, Broom.

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Earth Orbit Time-Lapse. So stunning. Love daybreak.

via kottke