oslo – penholder
Designer: Harri Koskinen For Danese Milano
Most of the times simple things are most functional and beautiful.. A simple creation and lot of thinking (sustainable too) is the beauty of this memo and pencil holder.
Designer Harri Koskinen has taken only two birchwood rings and a sheet to create this.
I would take lots of pencils & things to decorate this!
sculpture – notice board (material soft foam)
Designer: Mikael Nilsson @ Innersmile
Just note that a simple everyday thing like notice board can be simply so arty!
Sculpt it- knot it to take a notice board to a totally new level. You can buy several pieces in different colours or in three parts and tie them together to make your own creation! Material used is soft foam.
Designer Mikael Nilsson has made few very innovative products with soft foam; even shelves! (See here)
kringle-kari – notice board (material -soft foam)
Kringel-Kari is another innovative notice board. An enjoyable way to remember a variety of things on a hectic day. Well I certainly would like to pull it like plaits every time I put a note on it!
cabinets – book shelf (animated gif)
Designer – artist: Wolf Brinkman
Gravity as a binding element fascinates designer-artist Wolf Brinkman. And so he uses columns and gravity for these book-shelves. The Jamming, Hanging, Standing cabinets radiates constant tension and it seems that movement is frozen.
The horizontal arch has a span of about 6 meters (18′) and was built for the gallery ECCE in Rotterdam. The hanging structure is almost 4 meters (12′) long and was built for a law office in Utrecht. The standing Arch is a scale model with a diameter of 1.8 meters. (6′)
book shelf – Book Arch (animated gif)
The shelf together with the ‘Book Arch’ decorates the Central Library Rotterdam.
These shelves make optimal use of the building and one only needs to take away one element and the whole structure collapses.
Need I say out loud :– these architectural shelves fascinate me!
is it a sketch or?
Designer: Kenneth Cobonpue @ Hive
a canvas on easel or?
Designer: Anders Jakobsen/ Lagombra @ Lagombra
books on stands or?
Designer: Sarah Louisa Grönvall @ sarahgronvall
If you are thinking of a rainbow,
not up above in the sky
but right here in your home;
think of Roel-Jan Elsinga and this rainbow table design by him!
Designer: roel-jan elsinga rainbow table
(laquered wood and metal)
(it is also called worldleader table)
If you are thinking of peace,
world leaders,
military interventions;
think of this rainbow table designed by roel!
If you think this table is symbolic
and iconic. Go ahead!
I think this one is a beautiful dream-y-one!
I did not plan this post today. In fact I have a lovely post about a stunning architecture slotted for evening publishing. And six drafts posts about good design.
But as my Akismet (anti-spam software) says :-
It‘s your lucky day. 🙂
(most wordpress bloggers would know this.)
I also say IT IS MY LUCKY DAY! 🙂
First if anybody is having competition of bloggers who have got largest amount of spam comments than count me in.
Not just count me in consider me the winner.
Hurrah! I have got 5,000+ spam comments since my inception in last week of June last year!
Once I added a beautiful word like love to one of the post about an Indian festival and that attracted a large number of spammers. I made changes and added the word bond to it instead of love. And ultimately I had to close the comments section on that post!
I love my Akismet software!
I hate my Akismet software! ( For that matter every anti-software too.)
Love it because it stops all spam comments in spam box! And ultimately deletes it!
Hate it because I have to do a quick scanning of my spam comments everyday twice as sometimes it gobbles up pingbacks and blogger friends’ comments. And every time I shudder doing this though it is quick! This is still ok.
I hate it more because spammers are unnecessary and so the anti-softwares too!
I wonder what spammers achieve! Their march is almost always stopped midway and they meet their fate in delete box! They do achieve a little bit of my irritation and my screwed eyebrows!
Sorry to sound such a cynic but don’t spammers keep alive all the employment arising from making new anti-spam etc. softwares!
Spams and anti-spam softwares both are fabulous examples of bad designs!!
A design which comes not from a need but from a created problem, I consider bad design!
And today is my spam email LUCKY day too!
Phishers? have taken advantage of one of the Indian social network site and a large numbers of bloggers have been affected and I think, not knowing the source: they are SHOUTING AT EACH OTHER.
I made this mistake!??
I confirmed the email!
Did You?
I have been thanked for the blog visit – I have never made!
And the bombardments of “shouting’ mails!
(Have blurred or white-washed the email ids so that spammer couldn’t take more advantage.)
(please do not consider this post against Akismet- I do not know the name of any other anti-spam software. It has just been used for example purpose.)
And some day we will have to talk about BAD DESIGN! Why not today!