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Design What

Design What featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

sedi_ale

Sedi_ale's purpose is to go beyond borders denying to be a common sitting. Intends to elicit the interest of the users while entering into a space, creating an elegant and comfort zone of a house or a public space. The design is based on the philosophy of minimalism. Bright colors and pure lines are the characteristics of these structures. The singularity of sedi_ale is the system of three legs which controls the balance and creates a dynamic visual perception and several emotions, depending on the color selection.

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Exchange

Exchange is a dining table designed by Tanner Svoboda to promote interaction between the users so that they can gain the benefits associated with having communal meals. He designed the table with carefully placed cutouts to give the users a subtle sense of being brought together, which also increases eye contact as well as promotes sharing to create interaction.

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Portable Lap Desk Installation No.1

This Portable Lap Desk Installation No.1 is designed to provide users a work space that is flexible, versatile, focused and tidy. The desk consists an extremely space saving wall-mounting solution, and could be stored flat against the wall. The bamboo-made desk is removable from the wall bracket which allows the user to use it as a lap desk in different places at home. The desk also consists a groove across the top, which can be used as a phone or tablet stand to improve the product's user experience.

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SH 12

SH12 is a wall clock, which plays on the relation of an object and its shadow to create concealment and exposure. It represents the subconscious nature of time, and reveals hours only by its shade / shadow. Shadow, is a living thing which only follows something that is alive. Time cannot be seen. Reality is controlled by time, and unreality emerges in shadow. The true essence of the passing hours is masked beneath an elastic fabric. A functional design, combining both hard and soft materials, mysteriously veils part of itself beneath a silky surface to bring forth the shadow.

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The Edge Beirut

The Edge - Beirut Collection is inspired by the designer's home-city, Beirut. It is an interpretation of a city that is vulnerable yet resilient and adaptable. It reflects a city on the edge through the contradiction of solid yet malleable steel designs. It turns the concept of the hardy steel material on its head by twisting, bending and folding it, all the while retaining its sharp edges. It engages the precepts of Middle Eastern geometric patterns. Despite the challenge of an undeveloped manufacturing industry, these limited edition steel designs were handmade by artisans in Lebanon.

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DSSH Bridge

Dynamic ShapeShifting Helix Bridge Sustainable Pedestrian Bridge to cross between 2 existing buildings with Structural Flexibility. Being a flexible tensile structure, by applying more tension to different points, a technological dynamic deformation can be achieved in response to the people crossing the bridge. It becomes a living element that responds to its use. The project features a Modular Design, Structural Flexibility, Dynamic Reaction, Photovoltaic Energy, Air-Cleaning Plants and LED RGB Technology.

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