Samuel Treindl has an interesting collection of concepts made into physical objects. Even though these are just concepts, they’d make quite useful things in everyday life. I’d love to own the clock, which provides a three-minute reserve with the minute hand!
From the designer:
Our everyday life is characterized by social norms and behaviour patterns. The product line “tickreich“ responds to our everyday quirks and cultivates them at the same time. We wind up a cable between hand and elbow. We set our clocks forward just a bit. We don‘t always hit the bin with the wadded paper – everybody knows these situations. These habits have been analysed and put together into a collection.
Clever!
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Paris-based design studio Moustache has a second collection of furnishings that will be presented this week in Milan. The Petite Gigue chair pictured above doesn’t look as strong as a four-legged chair, but it is actually very stable and its stability is reinforced by the two legs of its user.
From the press release:
Rather than artificially developing the principle of novelty at any price, the products produced by Moustache will attempt to take advantage of passing time and to give them a little of the heritage value that furniture and objects held in the past. Far however from looking nostalgically at the contemporary production of the objects, the Moustache collection will try to anticipate and project the solutions for our scenarios for future life.
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This is such a simple but very neat idea from Rafael Morgan: a clock with hands that have magnifying lenses to make the little numbers bigger and easier to read for telling time. I hope a producer picks this concept up and manufactures it!
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Icona is a cuckoo clock by Giovanni Levanti for Diamantini & Domeniconi with a great range of bright and deep inky colors. The name Icona recalls the simplicity and the expressive strength of flat shapes and shiny colors.
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Just wave your hand over Gesture Cube to access music, web, your family and friends. You don’t even need to touch the surface. Gesture Cube uses 3D spatial movement tracking to detect your hand’s approach and movements — like magic!
Using natural gestures to control our electronics helps to draw them closer to human behavior, making things easier and more fun. The result is an intuitive product concept with unlimited possibilities. LUNAR Europe designed Gesture Cube as a three-dimensional object without a clear front to allow a wider range of gestures for its interface, to show different levels of an application or to conveniently multitask between various applications. The Gesture Cube’s design is simple and minimal, blending nicely into your living space.
The Spiral Clock slowly moves throughout the day using a ball rather than clock hands to tell the time.
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70 workers built a wooden 4m x 12m “digital” time display in real time: a work that involves 1611 changes within 24 hour period. Seamlessly documented and shot on HD video, a 24 hours movie or clock is now available as a DVD on the Standard Time website.
Standard Time is an artwork of Mark Formanek, realized by Datenstrudel.
The Jet Lag Alarm Clock by I.D.E.A shows you both the current time and the alarm time. It also comes in black and orange.
I just love the woodgrain on this clock.
These lovely products designed by Kouichi Okamoto are elegant and alluring. The Honeycomb Lamp is a lighting fixture I’d love to touch.
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