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teachingliteracy:

Typographic Lounge Furniture

teachingliteracy:

Secret Passageway Switch

Use to activate a secret passageway (or turn on a lamp). When placed in a bookshelf, this electrical switch uses your favorite hard-bound book, without damaging it, to conceal its true function.

szymon:

CASA - tissue box cover by Mauricio Affonso

karenh:

‘Companion Rack’ for magazines designed by Gavin Coyle

(via Junk Culture)

infoneer-pulse:

US Patent Office Shows Off Timeless Machines

Inventors these days have it easy. Usually, all they need to do when petitioning for intellectual property rights is file the paperwork. Before 1880, though, anyone with a new product idea had to build a miniature version of it to help inspectors understand the design. A selection of those patent models are featured in a new exhibit at the Smithsonian, Inventing a Better Mousetrap, set to open in November.

» via Wired

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thedailywhat:

Cubicle Design Concept of the Day: “Workflow” by o4i.

The dynamic structure of the “Workflow” cubicle seems to be about recognizing that the stasis in cubicle design is leading to stasis in workplace creativity. o4i’s approach involves constructing a work area that reflects the “stages” of workflow in the modern office:

1. SOCIAL - INTERACTIVE: Meeting - Presenting - Socializing -
Teamworking: Standing up with the laptop on a high desk.

2. FUNCTIONAL - FOCUSED: Preparing - Producing: Sitting down on an ergonomic chair with the laptop on a desk.

3. CASUAL - PRIVATE: Summarizing - On the phone - Taking notes -
Relaxing - Contemplating: Lying down with the laptop on your lap.

Honestly, cubicle philosophy be damned — I just want to be able to lie down at work.

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(via thedailywhat)

utnereader:

Make this Halloween utterly frightening with Japanese company Real-F’s photorealistic masks. More via Designboom …

(Source: simplypi, via muchomurka)

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rocketboom:

(via Even Heating: Roastie The Lil Round Toaster - Geekologie)

ROUND TOASTER!!

carolineyi:

vincenotvincent:

A T&T Korean design of ball point pens that increases ink capacity and reduces plastic waste. 

THIS. 

seltzerlizard:

shoebian:

fuckyeahblackmen:

karbarkalediscope:

awallofbrass:

Because stacking round scoops of ice cream is horribly risky. 

Thanks to craft gossip for pointing this out. 

purchase b/c ice cream is my long time, part-time lover

CHRIS…..LOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

O_O
I will totally take this. I would love it. 

This is so beautiful it almost makes me cry.  Finally, someone has taken the structural difficulties of ice cream cone construction seriously!!!  I’m not even being sarcastic.  This is a work of insight and genius.  I feel ashamed for not having invented it.

fastcompany:

Cool clocks. Get hype.

To round out our in-depth, hard-hitting, award-winning coverage of zany timepieces, we bring you news of the Spire Clock: a pretty little confection that tells time by folding and unfolding like a Japanese fan.

In short, the clock uses the outer blades of an asymmetrical fan like watch hands. The shortest blade represents the hour hand, and the longest blade represents the minute hand. As time passes, the hands rotate around an axis, making the fan expand and contract with the seductive rhythm of a hypnotist’s charm.

Conceptually, this almost identical to Studio Ve’s fan clock, which we wrote about late last year. A couple of differences: The Spire Clock registers seconds by flashing LEDs in the tip of the fan’s 24 blades. It’s also got a handle, which houses all the mechanics that make the thing tick.

The Spire Clock won designers Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi and Darshan Soni of India-based Wireframe architects a prestigious Red Dot award last year. Unfortunately, the design’s not in production — at least not yet. Check Wireframe’s website for updates. Editors’ note: The website is down at the moment. We’ll holler when it’s back up.

For more lots more stories on whimsical timepieces go here, here, here, and definitely here. Then hand over that Pulitzer.

(Source: fastcompany)