THE STREET SIGN CHAIR by Ken Mori

When not in use, the seat is rotated upwards to act as a sign informing passerby of its potential use.

DKDS @ Stockholm Furniture Fair 2011

BATUCADA by Jahara

The lamp is called Batucada, which means “beaten” in Portuguese, and is a continuation of Jahara’s Batucada range of crumpled aluminium homeware.
Batucada Light, a hammered task table lamp in anodized colors, will be on display during the Design Miami week at Ornare showroom in the Design District.

Milan 2010: Brazilian designer Brunno Jahara has released a collection of homeware made of hammered and crumpled anodized aluminum.

Neorustica by Brunno Jahara

Brazilian designer Brunno Jahara has just completed a new collection of furniture called Neorustica, all made from scrap wood. The collection of 10 tables, containers and benches pays homage to the country’s rural background and its people who moved from the country to the big city in search of a better life (i.e., improvised homes made of scrap). Each piece is named after a shanty town or favela in Rio de Janeiro (the designer’s hometown).

Jahara teamed up with a local furniture factory who also specializes in working with wood leftover from construction sites, who is now launching an international brand called NDT Brazil. This new brand is committed to sustainable design.

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BACK TO THE FUTURE

I found these pictures on a blog from an old friend, is a project of photographerIrina Werning. Is a "before and after", I could not resist!


"I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today... A few months ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future."

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ARC ENCODER

 

If you make music or follow artists like Daedelus you’re probably familiar with the Monome, the grid based OSC controller that gave birth to new ways of composing and performing music. The same people that make the Monome are back with a new controller, this time in the form of the Arc, a high-resolution OSC controller with two knobs which double as push buttons. Like the Monome before it, the Arc is beautifully designed, outfitted in the signature walnut/aluminum casing. At $500 I can tell you right now I’m not getting one, but the Arc sure is pretty to look at; that led ring is absolutely stunning.

Whenever I see an elegant interface like this I’m always left to wonder why we don’t have more control surfaces for Photoshop (I know people have found ways to control Photoshop with midi but I’m talking purpose-built controllers). Really, if Adobe were to open up to native osc or even midi support, we’d be off to a running start with all the pre-existing musical devices out there.

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Art Lebedev cardboard USB flash drives concept

Since everyone is going green these days, it makes perfect sense to ensure that as far as it is within your reach, you do your best to make eco-friendly choices, and among them include purchasing the right kind of USB flash drives for your storage needs. Art Lebedev has come up with the zany idea of making USB flash drives on cardboard, where they are so cheap to produce that they can simply be torn off out of a series as seen above, where you can then jot down the file content genre on the exterior with a pencil or pen and share the love.