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- Stretching Colored Lines Make for a Surreal Coffee Table
- Chilly Outside? Clever Mug Keeps Hands Warm All-Around
- Modular Outdoor Furniture Lets Cities Customize Fixtures
| Stretching Colored Lines Make for a Surreal Coffee Table Posted: 05 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST This table looks like a simple digital drawing – or maybe a trippy Pink Floyd laser show – but in fact it is a real physical object. It is the Prism table from designer Maurie Novak in Melbourne, Australia. The colored elastic lines are all attached at their beginning point to a single stainless steel bar of the table’s frame. From there, they stretch out in different directions to create mind-bending shapes and patterns. Like a prism that refracts light and throws rainbow-like images onto surfaces around it, the Prism table puts on a dazzling show. The colors seem to merge at some points and diverge at others, creating an engrossing picture that changes depending on your vantage point. The stainless steel frame is topped with glass, making it possible to stare down into the colorful strands even when you’re resting your drink on the table. This piece is just one of an emerging line of similar spatial experiments from Maurie Novak. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles: |
| Chilly Outside? Clever Mug Keeps Hands Warm All-Around Posted: 04 Feb 2014 06:00 PM PST When the weather turns frigid, there’s nothing as bone-warming as a mug of your favorite hot beverage. Designer Sabrina Fossi had this in mind when she developed the ToastyMug: a mug that has pockets to keep your hands extra warm. The traditional mug design only lets you warm the palms of your hands, leaving the backs to suffer the cold. The ToastyMug has no handle; instead, a built-in ceramic pocket wraps around half of the mug. Slip your hands into the ceramic pocket to both hold the mug and warm your mitts. Whether you’re drinking tea, coffee, or hot cocoa, the pocket insulates the mug, keeping your drink and your hands warm longer. The only downside? You’re out of luck if you prefer storing your mugs on hooks since this one has no handle. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles: |
| Modular Outdoor Furniture Lets Cities Customize Fixtures Posted: 04 Feb 2014 02:00 PM PST Outdoor furniture in public spaces is typically bland and plain; a bench you see in one city could easily be seen in a hundred others. MultipliCITY is a line of outdoor furniture that can be customized according to local materials and tastes. Created in a collaboration between design studio fuseproject and furniture makers Landscape Forms, MultipliCITY includes benches, path lights, tables, garbage bins, and bike racks. Each piece can be customized with local materials. The base elements of each piece, such as the feet of a bench or the brackets of a bike rack, are designed to be attached to the ground. They can fit together in different configurations according to the area in which they’ll be used. Other materials – the seats and backs of benches, or helmet-holding platforms on bike racks, for example – can be sourced locally. This flexibility allows cities to install community furniture that is inexpensive and reflects the materials of the area. The furniture is therefore inexpensive (since it is shipped incomplete) and reflects the personality of the location in which it’s installed. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles: |
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