Here’s what we looked at this week:
As complicated as it looks, this packaging from Sony is designed to be easy to open with one hand.
This Linear Clock is by Tom Clark, a design student at the Kingston School of Art.
Tivoli Audio’s Songbook Max, out next month, looks like a Bauhaus boombox.
Industrial Design student work: This project by Raya Azar at RCA is a good example of both thorough materials exploration and fantastic documentation.
These design elements make Ascento’s patrol-bot look cute and unthreatening.
This Balloon Glass Office, by architect Hiroshi Nakamura, uses glass shaped by the artisans who make windshields for bullet trains.
Build a functional lamp with the least amount of materials possible: Artist/designer Lucas Muñoz Muñoz’s B.A.R.E. Lamps (Brick, Appliances, Rods and Electricity) are part of his low-waste philosophy.
The Adhocists Instagram account gathers shots of ad hoc design solutions from around the world.
This Rietveld-inspired Rohan chair, by Burniture, is batch-produced from wood harvested from discarded furniture.
