Here’s what we looked at this week:
Bistroo, by furniture designer Dirk Wynants, is a modern update to sidewalk café furniture.
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Plusminus, by industrial designer Stefan Diez, is a lighting system based on power-conducting webbing straps.
The Lizzy chair, by industrial designer David Dolcini, features a subtle and unusual gesture.
Basso, by industrial designer Manuel Amaral Netto, is a handsomely designey rolling side table/bar cart.
This Govee Curtain Lights rig turns walls and windows into big, animated Lite-Brites.
Eindhoven-based designer Tim Teven’s Pressure Furniture series is made from 2mm aluminum sheets with patterns pressed into them.
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The Taccia Lamp, designed by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, was an initially flawed design that became a design classic.
Blofield Air Design’s DoNuts Is a lightweight, easy-to-store, easy-to-move partially inflatable picnic table.
Industrial designer Cairn Young spotted a nice design detail in this Olfa retractable craft knife.
If you’re designing inflatable products or furniture, here’s a tiny and rechargeable powered air pump that might help.
Vitamin Design offers this simple, space-saving design for a wall-mounted wine rack that doesn’t protrude into the room.
PHOS, by Product Design student Gabriele Onnis, is an unusual rechargeable lighting system.
Mill replaces your kitchen garbage can with a system to turn food waste into chicken feed. Designed for convenience, it’s a step beyond composting.
Borrowing a trick from the toy design world, Women’s World Cup broadcaster Fox Sports has commissioned a 20-foot statue of Alex Morgan with a 3D-printed head.
Image: Fox Sports
Image: Fox Sports
This week four volunteers moved into Mars Dune Alpha, NASA’s BIG-designed 3D-printed Mars habitat, for one year.
The Sogu Hanging Holder, a minimal way to store extra toilet paper, seems like a design school project.
A metal fabricator is actually selling their off-cuts as objets d’esign.
Product designer Annabella Hevesi’s Crosses chair uses an experimental foam-shaping technique.
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