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- Marginal Notes Inspires Design
- Psychedelic Waterflow
- How to make a very Long Pencil, Lesson #3
- Fridge of Bent Sittings
- Wooden Earbuds
- Hand Map for the Blind
| Marginal Notes Inspires Design Posted: 10 Feb 2011 09:07 AM PST One morning, Note Design Studio scribbles in the margins of old sketches and notes. They were just random ideas, visual brainstorms in passing to help illustrate key ideas but never saw the light of day. They fell in love with these scribbles and embraced their odd proportions, diverse materials and lack of clever functions. Some were left for later but others were pushed further, into the physical world. In the end it became an exhibition called what else, MARGINAL NOTES. DUESPHERE – S, M, L lamp In the deep green moss of the forest there are certain families of tiny fungi. They peek up, out from the dark, humid undergrowth like small candles. The double spheres represents what is hidden under ground and what is visible above. HIGH TIDE/LOW TIDE – shelves The tidal range is the vertical difference between the high tide and the succeeding low tide. Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of the Earth. The shelves in these two floating pieces of furniture mark the tidal ranges of the Strait of Magellan, the calmer Pacific versus the more dramatic Atlantic. OBJECTS Among prototypes and sketches we also developed some half–time forms; early seeds that influenced later objects. These not yet functionally defined forms acted as catalysts throughout the process. BOOP – sofa, chair and lounge chair 1. boop: The mystery of the boop shall never be revealed. But when saying “Boop” you must poke a random person on the nose. 2. boop: To poke an animal or something cute on the nose. TOMORROW ISLAND/YESTERDAY ISLAND – lamps The Diomede Islands are located in the middle of the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia, and their awkward man-made separation inspired us. The islands are sometimes called Tomorrow Island (Big Diomede, Russian territory) and Yesterday Island (Little Diomede, U.S. territory) because the time difference between them is 20 hours, but the distance only three kilometers. SIBLING – table Just like sister and brother this table and table grew up together. Their genetic and physical closeness is marked by a strong bond of colour and material. They sprung from the same root but ended up quite different. TEMBO – high table and stool Tembo is Swahili for elephant. When elephants walk, they always have at least one foot on the ground. They don’t run. Because of their straight legs and large pad-like feet elephants can stand for very long periods of time without getting tired. Just like our table and stool. Designer: Note Design Studio
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| Posted: 10 Feb 2011 08:11 AM PST Now here's a cool digital faucet that can perk up the ambience of your bathroom with its color coordinated flow. Casually called the Digital Faucet, the water color reflects the temperature; warm red means its hot and blue indicates a cold flow. It features four touchkeys for navigation, replacing the traditional lever system. It comes in an automatic shutdown model (for water saving) and features a time delay display for this purpose. In case you're wondering, the faucet uses RGB LED lighting to indicate temperature colors. Pretty neat! Designer: Christopher Yang for Effisystem
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| How to make a very Long Pencil, Lesson #3 Posted: 10 Feb 2011 08:05 AM PST On one hand we have the Continuous Pencil where the stub is fashioned to fit into a wooden stick to lengthen it. And on the other hand we have the simple 1 + 1 = 1 Pencil, where a plastic tube connects two stubs to make one long pencil. In Lesson #3 we have To Be Continued, a plastic extension with the added functionality of a sharpener. Once again designers iterating the need to use a pencil to it's very last bit and I totally agree with them. Designers: Cheng-Tsung Feng & Bo-Jin Wang
to be continued 60sec from Feng,Cheng-Tsung on Vimeo.
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| Posted: 10 Feb 2011 12:04 AM PST Prepare yourself for the strangest concept in refrigeration that yours truly has ever lain eyes on. This is “Membrane,” a concept for a refrigerator that uses nine flexible cooling walls to both hold and keep cool the items you need kept cool and held up. Cooling takes place only in the ares that are bent, that being only the places where items are placed. The exact physics we’re not entirely sure of, but the brightness of the project and the absolute uniqueness of the design are very easy to see. Designer: Vytis Vasiliūnas
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| Posted: 10 Feb 2011 12:03 AM PST There are two approaches you might take when you’re designing earbuds. One of them is to make them so intensely perfect with sound quality that their appearance doesn’t matter. The other, the one that designer Sung-Ching Chang designed, is made to be fantastic in form. These earbuds have wooden covers for buds, and they look fantastic. Could anyone ever bring a more lovely look to a tiny set of sound bringers? There’s even a microphone inside and a volume control near the left ear. Completely cute! Designer: Sung-Ching Chang
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| Posted: 10 Feb 2011 12:02 AM PST It is on the hand that a person who is without sight depends. Not always, but in our modern world, quite often. The hand is one of the most sensitive places on the body, and with this sensitivity, designer Calin Giubega has created a hand map that allows people without sight to “see” with movement and a form of radar. Inside the map that attaches to the hand, there are spheres that create symbols and gestures that tell the user what’s coming up in their path. See the unseeable. Designer: Calin Giubega
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