Design What

Design What

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

 

Sketch

Sketch shelf is an orderly shelf within chaos. Made by digital design method. The design inspiration of the shelf is the building steel skeleton under construction at the construction site. Designer combined line to create a space for storage by using algorithm. Line can be constituted methodically in chaos. Seen from a distance, it is a mess of lines, but it is actually a shelf. And these special shelf come out with not only answers of finding uncertainties, but also beauty of modern technology and art.

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Tai

Tai side table aims to effectively utilize retired substation metal sheets, extend the service life of the materials, and maximize the use of resources to reduce the burden on the environment. It only requires laser cutting and bending to finish the process and the flat-packed design can significantly reduce production time without assemble. The exterior lines are inspired from IM Pei's The Luce Chapel. It has the image of praying with folded hands in the East. Hope to create furniture that is easy to produce, beautiful, and eco-economical.

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Layer

The project started with making furniture out of small-diameter trees and scrap wood. Wood in Okinawa is felled due to natural disasters and road expansion. However, in recent years, road expansion has decreased due to environmental considerations, so wood is also shrinking. To continue making Okinawa furniture, it was necessary to use small materials. Therefore, the Layer stool were created by combining various types of wood. It is made from upcycled waste. This design proposes a new value by reconstructing the waste material from Okinawan wood into blocks.

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Lead

Recycled corks from wine bottles consumed in Tokyo are collected and re-molded into the body. The light emitted on the cork's soft surface emits a warm glow on the spot. Compact size that can be carried even in times of a disaster. The gentle light leads you to a hope in any place. Rechargeable for up to 13 hours of lighting. This lighting was designed to contribute to a sustainable society by recycling corkscrews, which are usually thrown away, as a valuable resource. As of now, some of the corks collected from about 750 restaurants in Tokyo are being used.

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Plump

The Plump modular seating collection has a minimalistic design that seamlessly blends round and square shapes to create a functional and visually appealing solution. The collection's straight lines convey a sense of efficiency, while the soft exterior lines offer a comfortable and calming experience. Various modules allow to create all sorts of combinations for both large spaces and small ones. With the Plump seating collection, users need not worry about their phones running out of battery during important conversations but enjoy comfortable waiting.

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The Alien

A story that originated from the sense of women - as delicately and carefully, ossified and just as carefully nurtured its roots by maintaining and creating empty spaces between them. It is as if the bones gave life and growth to its delicate, firm, and strong existence and then found itself immersed in a light, or other words, a light that blossomed from within. Sepideh got its name from the alien, so when a person feels like a foreigner or alien, her inner roots are like a new life. The roots inside have a longing to be freed and rely on the safe point of the boundary.

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