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The Next Big Thing: Masochistic German Furniture

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 09:15 AM CST

Designed deliberately to be uninviting, the Unidentified Object Chair by Prime supposedly redefines what our perspective on furniture should be. While the bottom half is comprised of laminated wood, the top half of the painful pyramid is filled with foam for a ‘comfortable sit’. I’m not saying this is a complete waste of fabric and timber, but I’m not a fan of anything that tries this hard to make us think about design.

Designer: Prime

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3Poeng Lamp Stands on Just 1 Leg

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 08:47 AM CST

If there was a perfect lamp to go with your leaning shelves, it would be the leaning 3Poeng lamp from Isabelle Olsson and Martin Meier. Inspired by birch tree forests outside Stockholm, the lamp uses just three legs to stabilize itself up against a wall, with rubber to give it traction. Without a static foot to ground it, the lamp invites constant repositioning and movement, something any interior can benefit from.

Designers: Isabelle Olsson and Martin Meier

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The “8″ Challenges the Modern Handheld Communication Device Community… or Does it?

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 04:50 AM CST

With the Weird on the rise, is there any room for flip phones and extra-small touchscreens? Kyung-Ryul Lim + Miyeon Kim have designed the “8,” a handheld communication device which makes use of two flip-up touch-screens with video, telephone, dictionary, and undoubtedly many other programs. Is there a market?

KyungRyul Lim and Miyeon Kim design moving parts:

The mobile phone has dual touch screen and 8 shape frame which help to move dual touch screen. Moveable dual touch screen is easy to use and has various functions according to its shapes. It can be used electronic dictionary by moving touch screen and can be used to displayphone . These changes in functions according to these shapes will bring out special feelings from users.

Questions!

1. Supposing the screens are strong enough not to break off in your pocket, and are able to easily lock down into the device, is there a sufficient amount of programs and uses for these moving parts?

2. Is this “Odd” enough for the “Odd” wave of new phones?

3. If this were produced in numbers that made them inexpensive enough to be a “standard” phone, would you choose it over the other “basic” models?

Designer: Kyung-Ryul Lim + Miyeon Kim

Polish Tour De Force

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 04:42 AM CST

The Slovak Republic is attempting to launch itself onto designs world stage with the newly formed “Exhibition Creator 2008″ While the name is as cryptic as it is uninspiring, the talent being unearthed is certainly worth some attention.

The “Neon Lamp” my look like lighting from space, but for designer Lucia Mrvíková its inspiration is actually a lot closer to home. Nostalgic for a childhood filled with memories of laboratories and white coats, the Neon Lamp is made entirely from lab equipment. The color is determined by the gas used, and by properties of the reaction, the lamp casts no shadow. Personally this reminds me of long winded chemistry classes with even longer chemical equations, but I still want one.

Its all about the package with the “Picnic ‘n’ Party”, by Slovak designer Klara Zavadilova. This disposable cutlery set is based around a colored and patterned napkin, which is both the aesthetic and functional centerpiece of the design. Each piece of the set is made from clear plastic, and has a hollow handle in which the napkin is rolled up and inserted.

“Adventures of A Little Deer” combines traditional Slovak embroidery with modern cartoon graphics to create a playful collection of homewares with a twist. Instead of the traditional textiles associated with arts and crafts, designer Sylvia Jokelová has brought embroidery kicking and screaming into the modern era with fibreglass and plastics.

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Welcome to the Glamourous Life of a Full-Time Professional Designer! Watch Yourself!

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 02:30 AM CST

Car. PC. Car. TV. -These are the days of our lives. Andy Kurovets gets silly with his “Cycle Life,” breaking up life into the four segments of an average computer-using persons working day. Each segment is assigned the machine most used: TV, PC, or Car, beginning with WAKE UP! and ending with GO TO SLEEP! Don’t let the wit-bugs bite!

Andy Kurovets gets stung:

It’s my watch-joke. A clock demonstrate boring and of the same type life of modern man and call to be thoughtful above sense of our life and order of things, which can be designated one pose (sitting) and three objects.

The design of clock is executed as 4 segments of working day. Every temporal interval is represented in the name of object which in this period is used (car-PC-TV). Every person form megapolis is acquainted with a vital rotation waik up- way on work-computer-motion from work- TV-sleep.

For those that live this life, feel free to visit the JOBS listing on Yanko Design. And for those who love to keep track of time, check out all of our other CLOCK and WATCH concepts.
Keep on timin’!

Designer: Andy Kurovets

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Too Soon? Seemingly Recession-Proof Aston Martin Presents the Luxury “One-77″

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 10:36 PM CST

Literally hand-crafted features, production of only 77 units (that’s 77 cars made, ever,) and cost around a couple million dollars. Is this for real? Aston Martin creates a designer dream-car that defies the imagination of the middle class and acts as a masthead for the company:

“all [the] beauty we could bring to a car.”

Aston Martin says this is no mere car, but 'possibly the world's most desirable automotive art form':

Marek Reichmann and his design team have sculpted the One-77 so that it is still instantly recognisably an Aston Martin, but with hints of a new design language.

The significance of the One-77 name, which won't be used for production cars, is that Aston intends to build no more than 77 cars. The exact number is believed to have been chosen because of CEO Ulrich Bez’s belief in 'lucky 7'. Car assembly is likely to be at Gaydon, though the V12 engine will come from Aston's dedicated engine facility in Cologne.

Aston wants to show the car to potential customers by the end of the year, with the potential for the first production cars to roll out of Gaydon by the end of 2009.

Can we expect our rapper-friends to be holding one of these in their pocket(s)? What about our politicians and TV personalities? What kind of person buys a car like this? Investors? Perhaps the same people who buy astronomically expensive art pieces where the pricetag is the artwork?

If you’re looking to be one of the lucky (and rich) buyers of the Aston Martin One-77, you may already be too late. Aston claims that over 100 wealthy buyers have signed up for the One-77 supercar, though it plans to build only enough to satisfy the car’s label: 77. Amazingly, those customers have dropped a £200,000 deposit without ever having so much as seen a totally uncovered photo of the British supercar. But hey, it’s an Aston, so how ugly can it be? If you’ve got money to burn, we can think of few ways to better spend over £1 million on an automobile, especially considering that it’s rare enough to actually increase in value over time.

A car that increases in value is something I like to hear about. As a person who’s a lover of ingenuity and progress, you’d be surprised how much I support the preservation of excellent old things. If and when this car makes it off the assembly block, I suppose nothing less than it to become a collectors car. Does this car push forward the automotive industry in a way that’s healthy?

I think about the fact that I’ll never see one in person, much less be able to own or drive one.

What do you think?

1. Is this a slap in our recessing face?

2. Or is it a great day for the automotive industry?

And, most importantly I think: as some of you mentioned in a possibly related post, [should we really be designing the perfect form for a product that should be on it's way out?]

Designer: Marek Reichmann + design team at Aston Martin