Transparent planar coin bank
From designer Nathan Tobiason, whose slightly iffier screw chair I hit this morning.
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Screw this chair
Yeah, I’m really sorry about that title. It’s Maker Faire. I’m exhausted. Is this one-off concept chair from designer Nathan Tobiason interesting or completely OTT? Help me out in the comments. Personally I kind of like his transparent planar coin bank better. Ooooo…I think I’ll blog that next. [via Recyclart]
Yo Dawg, I heard you like chairs
So designer Eric Ku made this chair out of the letters in the word chair, so you can sit while you spell.
Clever bedside reading lamp + bookmark
Pretty sweet concept design from Damjan Stanković. The triangular prism shape saves your place in a book, while the weight of the book keeps the lamp turned off. Lift the book to read, and the light comes on. [Thanks, Billy Baque!]
Smooth-carved vessels, other forms from brick and mortar
This bowl is actually carved from a block of normal bricks joined with mortar. Even though it looks lathe-turned, I can’t imagine that a slab of conventional brick masonry would hold together during turning, even if you could find a lathe that was able to turn it. Maybe it could be done at extremely low speed? Suffice to say I’m very curious about their process, and other examples on this page lead me to suspect it involves a CNC mill and/or a shop full of very dedicated craftspeople. [via Dude Craft]
Breathing table lamp
A functional piece of kinetic art from Jaems Coury. Shown here is number five in a limited series of hand-made lamps.
How-To: Simple workbench
Randy Sarafan writes: A few weeks ago I got tired of being hunched behind a desk all day. I was already surrounded by all kinds of alternative desks, so I decided to throw my hat into the ring. I’ve been in situations in the past at which I’ve worked at workbenches or work counters and […]
