Nick Johnson, owner of new Seattle-based design company Johnson House Design, has released his first product: Flat Clock. The clock is a customizable modern wall clock that’s created completely out of your own custom specifications using the Flat Clock interactive website. Be prepared to spend some time on FlatClock.com making a ton of fun designs – I know I just wasted at least an hour.
The minimalist concrete work of Swedish company Forsberg Form is off the charts. The company, started as a hobby by Johan Forsberg 15 years ago, has grown into a full-fledged design business working with both residential and commercial clients.
Okay gadget guys and gals. We’ve curated the best of Design Milk’s technology offerings this year, and they encompass the cute (a kiddie iPad) to the crucial (great workspaces) to innovative (grocery shopping via billboard) to the just plain useful (a soundless alarm clock). While some are simply for play, others allow you to take existing gizmos to a whole new level.
anaPad
anaPad is a children’s magnetic white board made in the exact dimensions of an iPad that comes with an erasable marker and app-style magnets. Almost as good, though twice as cute, as the real thing.
Designed by London-based designers Goodwin + Goodwin, these Typographic Time Zone Clocks are an interesting alternative to traditional time zone clocks. Currently there’s New York, Paris, and London, but more are planned. Perfect for the type-obsessed.
New Dutch brand Leff Amsterdam will be launching 54 beautifully designed clocks at HOME, the new homewares and interiors accessories show in London this January. Here are a few of our favorites:
Brick by Erwin Termaat is a heavy duty vintage-style flip clock that’s been redesigned in stainless steel. It can be used on a desk or hung on the wall, and is available in a 24-hour or an am/pm version.
No, it’s not a fan or a hatchet, but a clock. The Spire clock from Wireframe was inspired by the movement of a Japanese folding fan. The hour and the minute hands of this clock constrain the spiral form at two ends. The spiral form of the clock unfolds and folds in the rhythm of a Japanese fan.
New York-based designer Stefan K. Hepner created the CuCoo Clock, a different take on traditional pendulum clock. Its faceted shape gives an almost obsolete, nostalgic item a resolutely modern feeling. Made of cast resin with quartz movement and metal parts.
Keith Moore of Pilot Design combines his graphic design background with woodworking skills he acquired to hand-craft colorful modern clocks and lamps. For the clocks he mixes industrial forms and geometric shapes while the lamps have a simple circular pattern cutout. The lamps can be made in a variety of colors, and there are many clock styles to choose from.
British film producer-turned-cabinetmaker and designer Charlie Turner recently launched his line of contemporary clocks. He breaks away from the traditional mold of centuries-old design to produce each distinctive piece with its own story. Each clock is not only sculptural but also a functional work of art.
Remember the Accurate watch from Mr Jones? Well now you can share the notion of impending doom with others with the Accurate clock.
