Yanko Design - Latest Posts

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 02:23 AM PST

The same two-display clock you pick up before each flight (because you lose it between each flight.) The Industrial Facility’s designed this perfected object for IDEA International, Japan. IDEA plans on unveiling the production model at 100% Design London. It’s called “Jetlag,” and it’s sky high!

Two displays, one for time, one for the alarm. Lock button on the back so no buttons change any settings. Size of the clock is half of an international passport.

Simple beans.

Designer: Industrial Facility

Industrial Facility, Kim Collion, Sam Hecht

Touched by His Noodly Appendage

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 01:12 AM PST

Although this project isn’t quite Spaghetti Monsterism, you may find the experience you glean from this, “Fat Knits,” to be quite religious. A bunch of furniture -nay- interior product - that clicks the enlarge button on holiday gifts from Grandmother…

and brings you what you’ve always wanted… GIANT THREADS.
You like giant things, right? I love giant things.

“Interior Products” -as designer Bauke Knottnerus calls them- made out of giant threads. Sometimes sewn, sometimes piled up, sometimes so huge, just lying about alone, tied to nothin’ at all.

Stay phat.

Designer: Bauke Knottnerus

Bauke Knottnerus

Transformer Shelves Are More Than Meet The Eye

Posted: 18 Dec 2008 12:10 AM PST

I’ve never needed a whole lot of room for my socks, but this set of drawers from designer Martin Sämmer would definitely fill the ticket. Designed to allow consumer customization through the ornate arrangement of compartments, the shelves aspire to a process of creative expression that will ‘transform’ the consumer into a “Design-Prosumer.” Paradigm shift or not, Mom would never have found those adult magazines If I’d hid them in these drawers.

Availability: doubtful

Designer: Martin Sämmer

Martin Sammer, Martin Sämmer

Solar Powered Solar Panel Sun Glasses

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 08:33 AM PST

The glasses themselves don’t need power to block the sun’s rays from your eyes. That’s power-free. The SIG, or “Self-Energy Converting Sunglasses” are quite simple. The lenses of the glasses have dye solar cells, collecting energy and making it able to power your small devices through the power jack at the back of the frame. “Infinite Energy: SIG”

The dye solar cell is described by the designers of the SIG as “cheap organic dye [used with] nano technology [providing] cheap but high energy efficiency.” Inexpensive, light, and visible-ray penetrable. The lens turns sunlight rays, (rays that would otherwise harm the eye,) into electrical energy.

Designers: Hyun-Joong Kim & Kwang-Seok Jeong