Dornob | Design Ideas Daily

Dornob | Design Ideas Daily

Box Transforms Your Car Into a Camper in One Minute Flat

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Hitting the open road spontaneously is a dream of outdoors lovers and free spirits alike. The spontaneity is somewhat ruined when you need to go get the camper van out of storage and load it up – or even worse, plan out routes and book hotels. The QUQUQ Campingbox is a self-contained module that fits into a passenger car to turn it into a camper van in less than one minute.

The European-designed QUQUQ combines a sleeping surface, a mini kitchen and storage space in a convenient 132-pound (60 kg) box. The box can fit into the van even with the back seats up. With the seats put down, the bed rests on their backs. If the seats are removed, there is plenty of storage space beneath the bed, which extends with just the pull of a handle and secures to the seat belt hardware.

The QUQUQ consists of a wooden chest and a three-section folding foam mattress for two people. Inside the chest is a kitchen which contains a two-flame stove, a sink with a supply of fresh water, a workspace and storage area. No conversion is necessary to transform the vehicle into this truly useful home on the road; the entire unit can be easily lifted into a station wagon or passenger van by two people.

    

Reflective Furniture Becomes Nearly Invisible in a Room

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 04:00 PM PDT

Most of us use our furniture as a focal point of our homes, but Takeshi Miyakawa‘s Visible/Invisible furniture series actually seeks to blend into its surroundings. Mirror-finished acrylic is used to create furniture that reflects the room it is in.

The reflections that bounce off of the acrylic surfaces are not simply exact reproductions of the furniture’s surroundings. The tables and chairs are bent with heat during the production process to create crackles, wrinkles and visually fascinating little folds.

Although they are perhaps more art than furniture, the Visible/Invisible series of objects are a fascinating look at the interaction between an object, its material and the space it occupies. Every Visible/Invisible piece would look completely different in every different room in which it sits.

    

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