Kaleidoscopic water pitchers by Lotte van Wulfften Palthe

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Chris Harrison’s concept uses the body as a sort of echo chamber. Which is to say, when the user taps a particular part of their body, a sensor worn around the upper arm can tell if the tap-point was at a particular spot on the forearm or on one of the individual fingertips, by assessing the vibrations sent throughout the body by the tap.

Watch the video on youtube.

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Grassworks are a series of experiments in self-assembly furniture – a range that is designed to be simple, space-saving and wholly sustainable.
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77 year old Swedish designer Ake Axelsson exhibited «Wood» – an elegant lightweight chair he produced for Gärsnäs – at the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2010. The components are made with a traditional steaming technique that uses a minimal amount of wood.

Traditional technique, minimal amount of wood and all by a 77 year old designer – let’s ask the old hand!

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by Yukari Hotta

Storage furniture with a simple form and a friendly assemble system which can be easily adopted by everyone. For assembling, the only fasteners are the wooden wedges which hold whole construction. No extra metal fasteners are used at all.

Yukari, word up!

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Dutch design collective La Bolleur is taking their Mini Golf Club to Milan. This spring Zona Tortona will be host to the playground. Initially a creative and cultural meeting space, La Bolleur has in five short years become a multidisciplinary collective with a new location in the form of an abandoned farmhouse in the city center of Eindhoven.

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La Bolleur Mini Golf Club,
Via Voghera 11, Milan
April 14th – 19th 2010

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The ongoing collection „Our New Apartment“ is a radical assemblage of prefabricated components and selective laser sintered Polyamide parts. The self-engineered Polyamide parts and the semi-finished materials enhance a clarity of purpose wholly dedicated to usage.

The Investigation of Selective Laser Sintering on ordinary objects should draw conclusions of the visual and technical qualities of this undeveloped material.

Don’t forget to check out their amazing selection of inspirational pictures at their website.

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Tim Brown is the CEO of innovation and design firm IDEO, taking an approach to design that digs deeper than the surface. Having taken over from founder David E. Kelley, Tim Brown carries forward the firm’s mission of fusing design, business and social studies to come up with deeply researched, deeply understood designs and ideas — they call it “design thinking.”

by Lucas Maassen, a lecturer of design at the ICT & Media Design department of the Fontys University of Applied Sciences:
The Brain Wave Sofa, top, “is a representation of a 3 second wave of Alpha brain activity captured with a 3d EEG…From the 3d-EEG the file got directly milled in foam by a 3d milling machine and then upholstered in felt by hand.” Also pictured is the 3-micron, platinum Nano Chair, manufactured at electron microscopy company FEI, a theoretical exploration in the same category as his Alternate Reality Chair, where he investigated the point that furniture “becomes real” by listing and selling CAD models of furniture on e-bay.
And, finally, he’s also written a script to make analogue furniture, “back engineering the digital revolution” with instructions like “every material can only be used once.” Beta output from this process can be seen below, but look for more pieces from the Script Furniture series later this year.

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Cradle to Cradle presents a manifesto calling for a new industrial revolution, one that would render both traditional manufacturing and traditional environmentalism obsolete. It’s a handbook for 21st-century innovation and should be required reading for business hotshots and environmental activists.

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