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Where are Your Keys? These Metal Lasso Pointers Can Help

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 10:00 AM PDT

A cluttered house is the perfect hiding place for keys, mobile phones, pens and other important objects, but these delightful pointers help you keep track of important objects even through a mess.

The pointers are appropriately called Pointer Here. They were designed by Anna and Maxim Maximov of Maximovich Design as a kind of analog version of those electronic key finding devices.Each features a small circle that sits on a flat surface and presumably surrounds the item you don’t want to lose. A piece stands up from the circle, rising above the stuff around it to point the way.

Although simple in design, these clever markers are a neat solution for people who just can’t seem to keep track of the important little things they need. Of course, remembering to put the little things under the markers so you can find them might be another problem altogether.

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Get Smashed! Steel Chair is Shaped By Your Hammer Strikes

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 04:00 PM PDT

For nearly all of us, our involvement with the design and construction of our furniture ends with putting together an IKEA cupboard or repainting an old table. Designer Marijn van der Poll designed the Do Hit chair, which requires not only your participation but your muscle to shape it into the perfect seat for you.

The chair comes as a big block of stainless steel and is accompanied by a mallet. Upon receiving the chair, you have a go at the metal with the mallet, shaping the seat blow by blow. Although van der Poll says that the chair is physically difficult to shape with the heavy mallet, he believes that anyone can do it.

Based on the video above, it takes a lot of hard physical labor to turn the cube of stainless steel into a suitable seat. Maybe that physical experience, shaping the seat into the perfect one for you, will contribute to a more meaningful connection to your furniture. You will forever be able to look at that big dented chunk of metal and know that you created it.