Coppa – bookmark cum pen folder

Designers: Kazuhiro Aihara, Tomoya Yoshida, and Miho Hara @ 3-1 Design

Know your material so well, so very well that when you create; the material becomes almost the product!

3-1 Design team has worked with simple material like cloth so well that the simple cloth has metamorphosed in some innovative and brilliant products. These products are going to be shown at DesignTide Tokyo 2010 which is still 2 days away.

So here is 2 other designs from 3-1 Design’s portfolio. Knowing the material well made 3-1 Design team create something simply functional and dual purpose (bookmark+pen holder)

making use of flexibility of wooden board for dual purpose

Table base of split pipe by 3-1 Design

Just little twist and tweak or say splits gave this table stunning look

Tsutsuhigo

simple, stunning and clever! And I keep thinking why I didn’t think of this before!