How genius is this 2012 Rocking Chair Sculpture Calendar by Katsumi Tamura for Good Morning, Inc.? It is designed to sit on your desk and it even rocks back and forth like a real rocking chair. The design is meant to symbolize a relaxing way to measure the passage of time, i.e., rocking. The current month sits on the back of the chair while the other months are stored on the seat. The chair assembles easily and stands 4.75″ tall x 2.75″ wide.
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Bravo Company, an independent design studio based in Singapore, has recently launched a clever new product called Rememberings™. These stretchable silicon rings, similar to those yellow LIVESTRONG bracelets, have inscriptions on them that remind us of little, yet important things, such as Take pills; Call mum; Pay bills; Return books; Buy gift, etc, that always seem to slip our minds. The bright colors are sure to catch anybody’s eye, which thus fulfills its purpose of reminding! It works well as an accessory or a gift for a forgetful friend.
bureau^proberts designed this three-story modern family home in Newmarket, Queensland, Australia. The Patane Residence is concrete construction with an open and airy floor plan that features cantilevered balconies offering views of the Brisbane skyline and Mount Coot-tha.
I bet you’d never expect to see a modern sled! We Never Give Up! is a design by Polish designer Szymon Hanczar that’s an update to the traditional winter sled.
Kennedy James‘ Serial Bondage series features chairs tied up, strung up and hung up in the ancient art of Japanese Shibari (rope bondage). Sexy!
Phloem Studio is a custom furniture company based in Portland, Oregon. Owner and designer Ben Klebba has an eye for building clean-lined pieces of wood furniture and cabinets with a modern feel. Each piece is made by hand with the type of craftsmanship that makes these timeless pieces last forever.
If you’re an HGTV or DIY Network fanatic, you must understand that the channel didn’t blossom out of nowhere. Long ago, Bob Vila and This Old House laid the groundwork for DIY as entertainment. Vila, who has spent his career helping people upgrade their homes (and lives), went on to present similar offshoot series, Bob Vila’s Home Again, Bob Vila, and Restore America with Bob Vila. His latest efforts include tackling the online world with his webisode pilot series Building Green. We’re lucky to say he’s the star of this week’s Friday Five.
In case you don’t know what The DMD is all about, it’s a collection of Society6 artist prints and accessories available for sale to support the emerging artist community, something I’m very passionate about. I hope that you can join in supporting by checking out the affordable prints or becoming part of the Society6 art community.
Everyone loves an inanimate object that suddenly, with the addition of eyes and a smile, becomes a cute little character. So this week in The Design Milk Dairy I’ve chosen cute illustrations of everyday objects given instant personality by their creators. Above is Mugs by Teo Zirinis — that poor little guy in the middle 
Plus, I want to mention there’s free shipping on Society6 through Sunday 1/29 (excl. framed and canvas prints)! So go make a deposit into an artist’s future.
Product and lighting designer Giles Godwin-Brown is a recent graduate and has designed two high-quality modern lamps.
Designed by Alain Gilles, the BuzziHood is one of a few designs he created for Buzzispace, shown this past week at Maison & Objet.
