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Off the Wall

Terrence — Mon, 06 May 2013 04:07:11 +0000

Enhance your room with warm diffuse light and set the mood with touch-sensitive dimming. The CLOUDLINE lamp by LIVDIN is simple to wall-mount, and takes up no floor space. Pleasing illumination in an equally pleasing package.

BANG!

Terrence — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:46:47 +0000

I love design with a sense of humor, and this lamp by bitplay INC takes the cake!

Living Photos

Terrence — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:08:17 +0000

We’ve all taken photos out of focus. Now with Lytro‘s new light field camera, you don’t have to worry about it. Take the picture, focus later! And turn heads with its sleek minimilist design.

Where There’s Smoke There’s Electricity

Terrence — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:40:07 +0000

Is this NASA’s new Mars probe? Kinda looks like it, but it’s made for Earth. Do you enjoy camping, but can’t live without your phone? BioLite may be able to help. Feast your eyes on this uncanny backwoods apparatus! Combining two of man’s most basic needs - the need to burn stuff and talk on the phone – BioLite is indispensable for roughing it in style. Charge your phone while toasting marshmallows. BioLite brings us one step closer to Mr. Fusion.

The Nature of Things

Terrence — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:37:07 +0000

Jesse and Jessica of Nervous System have a good (and fun) thing going. They’ve taken their interest in nature and design, and parlayed it into a growing business. They design fashion accessories and houseware items by writing computer algorithms that model natural processes… not your typical, run-of-the-mill design process. Using rapid prototyping techniques, they manufacture their products in metal and plastic. The cuff I purchased for my girlfriend was beautifully intricate and quite unique!

Prefab-ulous

Terrence — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:29:10 +0000

New Yorkers are used to living in boxes. Shoe boxes to be more specific. But these custom prefabricated homes by Resolution: 4 Architecture are anything but. Each modular box is factory-built and assembled on site, shortening construction time and improving the quality of the construction. On a cost per square foot basis, Res4 homes are situated slightly higher than those of a traditional home builder, but below most custom-built homes. The actual cost of a Res4 prefab home belies their meticulous design and quality finishes. Res4 offers the best of both worlds, providing an excellent ROI in a modern custom home.

Social Station

Terrence — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:47:37 +0000

If you live in New York City or other dense urban envionment, you know space comes at a premium. Apartments are tiny, pushing domestic and social activities into the public realm. Social Station offers a place for both domestic gathering and social interaction in a public setting.

Live and Dine Young

Terrence — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:08:37 +0000

Here it is… the Livdin Sofa! Now shortlisted for final judging for the Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2011!

Livdin’s design is motivated by the constraints of tiny urban dwellings, and the desire to create a pleasing, playful piece of furniture, but functionality and flexibility are the heart of the piece!

Stay tuned for results!

Live. Leaner.

Terrence — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:08:05 +0000

The typical seating and table heights for both a lounging and dining arrangement are fairly standard. From here, I explored how a sofa could transform into a dining configuration (some of the design sketches are shown below). I found that a pivoting action for the table seemed like the best solution. This mechanism seemed to be the simplest with respect to both mechanical hardware and ease of conversion from a sofa to a table.

I moved the design from sketch book to computer for further development. Studying the design using a 3D model revealed some complexities that weren’t evident in the hand sketches. The pivoting action of the table surface doesn’t clear the back of the seat, requiring the seat to be moved out of the way as the tabletop pivots (see video below). This adjustment is somewhat cumbersome, and I disliked the amount of effort necessary to convert from sofa to table. Also, in converting from sofa to table, the orientation of the furniture piece is reversed… another downside to the design. Lastly, I don’t like how the tabletop is adjacent to your feet in sofa-mode… seems unhygienic. Overall, however, I like the direction of the design. Lemme know what you think!

Art Underwater

Terrence — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:58:27 +0000

Image by Jason deCaires Taylor

Xian has its Terracotta Army and Cancun has The Silent Evolution, an underwater installation of 400 concrete figures created by Jason deCaires Taylor. The installation is part of the Museo Subacuático de Arte (MUSA), an underwater sculpture gallery off the Yucatan Peninsula. Snorkelers and divers can delight in the mob of surreal life-size sculptures – a nun, chubby kid, a pregnant woman - before they are subsumed by marine life into an artificial reef.