pkolino puzzle-desk: a 2 piece challenge for kids

I love this ideea of challenging kids with a puzzle-like 2 pieces desk/bench which is in the same time nice as design and frees some space when not used. Have to bookmark this for future reference . See a picture on the other side…

eco-cook: economy on resources

As the global warming crisis and its consequences deepen, the rational use of water becomes vital. This is what Kechenyi Camille from France believes and this got her winning a honourable mention at designboom’s Dining in 2015 contest.

Here’s what she said about her design:

OneLessDesk is the hi-tech workspace for you

Sorta transformer but stylish and futuristic, MAC-inspired design of OneLessDesk fits perfectly in your room. Retracting input devices holder when you finish working you get a compact piece of furniture that doesn’t get in your way when you don’t need it.

I would have loved a way of lowering the monitor below and get all that space cleared but anyway for $900 you can have it as is or just watch it for inspiration and a free of charge DIY design:

Another sofa-bed that would make Optimus Prime proud: Flou’s “Book”

Transformer furniture keeps better and better as personal space gets smaller and smaller. Italian designers at Flu imagined a stylish sofa-bed which even if shows it’s a 2-part mattress has something glamorous that make it suitable for elegant interiors. Equipped with a folding orthopedic mattress or with a memoform mattress, it comes in three versions: with a reclining head-board and with rectangular or roller backhead and armrests.

Here’s a detailed pic of the thing :

2D turns 3D: laptop stand out of a bamboo plywood sheet

Student designer Dice Yamaguchi from California’s Art Center College of Design did a great job when imagined this laptop stand made of a cleverly cut to pieces plywood sheet. I’ve seen this kind of economic (green?) way of making three dimmensional things out of 2D sheets of plywood/metal/etc and I was impressed by the concept. So I am by this one that proves once more that one doesn’t have to use large amounts of material and complicated ways of producing things.

Here’s the picture of the design:

Presenting Design-Pod, the all-in-one home-office you’ll ever need

Smart home-office ideea from Australia-based Andrew Maynard Architects, this unit can fold and unfold in your living-room and goes unnoticed when not in use. For me it looks like a mini-bar. Put some glasses and a botthle of wisky on top and there you go.

For the courious jump to see a few more photos:

Cheer up a little bit the trash bin corner : the wastebasketball

Li Jianye’s concept of wastebasketball offers some joy to the waste bin corner in the home office with it’s sporty style.

Great for kids’ room. Even for the desk in my room it would bring some color and happyness to the actually boring and dark side where the paper bin lies.

Boxes on the wall…honorable mention at Premio Vico Magistretti

Boox by it’s name, the piece of furniture imagined by han li + Yan Hu from China is the simplest way of doing transformer furniture . I find it very nice among other nice submissions and without more words by me, please read what the authors has to say about his work:

“BOOX is a piece of furniture to store and

unordered order with borrod table

Line Depping from Denmark won the first prize at the Premio Vico Magistretti design contest where guys at designboom.com teamed up with DePadova from Italy to commemorat, Vico Magistretti- Italian designer and architect.

non-rotative wind generator takes on turbine wind generators’ efficiency

Shawn Frayne, a 28-year-old inventor based in Mountain View, Calif., saw the need for small-scale wind power to juice LED lamps and radios in the homes of the poor. Usual wind turbines don’t scale down well - there’s too much friction in the gearbox and other components.