Today most men tend to swiftly 'go to the corner' performing their small business, especially in the city. Many men avoid going to the public toilets due to the unpleasant atmosphere, which usually is dark and quite smelly. Because on wildlife hunting-ground men ambitiously love to find an adequate tree for their short basic needs and because in our modern age they tend to substitute these through the 'corners' of our cities, the thought – to bring back the pee-trees – is virtually obtruded. Thus the aromatic malpractice is corrected and a hygienic alternative is provided.
The 'Pee-tree' is a men urinal for the urban space - it has the abstract form and dimension of a tree. It’s bright ceramic white is a strong signal and is to be seen from far – making it accessible when in urgent need. The trunk offers a perfect place for messaging, e.g. the common 'I was here' or 'done that' statements, which we all know from Club-toilets. To avoid the odour, the urine is directly flushed down to the underground sewage canal.
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Per Emanuelsson and Bastian Bischoff of Humans Since 1982 have designed a new lounge called “Celebrating the cross 1” that embedded a steel cross base into a net-like metal panel. The textile aspect of the backrest and seat is even more interesting. The mesh is woven with string that adds a lot of visual interest to the piece, warming up an otherwise stark lounge. There is also storage space for books by the head of the chaise.
This design of the lounge aims to show that the cross has not only a semiotic meaning but also a practical function. And to celebrate a new practical function of the “cross”.
via Dezona | Humans Since 1982
via Dezona | Humans Since 1982
Studio Jo Meesters created TESTLAB, an experimental ongoing project about rejuvenating and reusing discarded materials. TESTLAB is about experiments and prototypes, exploring the possibilities of the materials, removing them from their contexts and transforming them into something new.
TESTLAB kicked off with the collection “Odds & Ends, Bits & Pieces”, consisting out of four furniture pieces. The collection which is entirely made out of 34 discarded wooden beams and 16 leftover blankets, is based on upholstering and weaving techniques creating soft variations of everyday objects.
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via Studio Jo Meesters
From Esrawe latest collection, the Chaise Vari outdoor furniture is a robust and aggressive piece, manufactured with low-tech crafts such as blacksmithing and weaving in PVC cord.
The Chaise Vari, reinterprets a common scene in many streets of Mexico City, where itinerant weavers produce woven pieces for passersby, imprinting each piece with their unique expression.
The Chaise Vari, reinterprets a common scene in many streets of Mexico City, where itinerant weavers produce woven pieces for passersby, imprinting each piece with their unique expression.
This piece is part of the exhibition at the Galería Mexicana de Diseño called Exploraciones that seeks to identify the spectrum of diverse processes in Mexico. The structure may be in iron or stainless steel and PVC cord with a wide variety of colors, the piece is entirely made by hand.
via Hector Esrawe
via Hector Esrawe
DYMOV Ultra is the world first fashionable sausage packaging designed by FIRMA for sausage company DYMOV. While the packaging design is totally different from the traditional look, the new design is attractive and stand-out among the sausages. The packaging graphic was inspired by the brightest graphic trends in typography and fashion design of the 20th century. This new color scheme helped make the packaging more bright and positive, to highlight the range of sausages on the shelves of stores, to attract the attention of buyers and a more detailed positioning of the product.
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A project sponsored by Alstom to designed a future autonomous tram for Stockholm City, 2025 saw three designers- Vanessa Sattele, Patrik Pettersson & Fredrik Nilsson came up with this double decker tram that designed in a Scandinavian way, being clean, simple and bright at the same time as it is timeless, open and user friendly.
The new double-decker the tram carries about 170 passengers, but on a smaller footprint than standard trams, hence it creates less of a blockade in traffic. It also gives an opportunity to have less seats on the street level floor, creating a more spacious and accessible area for wheelchairs, prams or lots of luggage. Having doors on the second floor opens up new possibilities, not only to speed up the flow of exiting and entering the tram, but also offers instant access to big shopping centers directly from the second floor.
via Vanessa Sattele | Patrik Pettersson
via Vanessa Sattele | Patrik Pettersson
Eco artist Edina Tokodi has always been known for her moss graffiti work, but now she has created a portrait for the Fort Green Garden Walk event. Made completely out of succulent plants with white panels atop, the project perfectly create a portrayal of the human face.
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Tree's stool is a mutation between a protective barrier for a tree and seating. Designed for the first exhibition of the young Swiss collective INOUT, Emanuelle create this playful project, transforming a standard tree's barrier into a stool, giving the ordinary barrier another function: an opportunity for passers-by to rest a while.
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Designed exclusively for hydroculture friendly plants, this pillow shaped pot for plants is made of PVC foam that expands according to the plants growing needs. Love the simplicity of this idea, yet amazingly creative, who would thought of a pillow-shape plant pot? The Grow Bag is 35cm x 35cm in size and will definetely look good in your bedroom.
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Fun at the workplace! That the thought when Fredrik Mattson designed NOMONO for Horreds. NOMONO is an office that is as simple to keep in order as possible – and give you more energy for the fun things to do.
The work habits are not the same as 20 years ago. Today most people uses laptops, we talk more in cellphones than the regular phone and we don’t write many letters by hand. The single office is becoming nothing but a memory. Of course the office must change with the circumstances! It has to be easy to connect the laptop. Everyone are tired of messing about with cable trays and connections? I want the technique to be there but not visible.
In Nomono you find integrated cable trays to hide all the cables. The tray is close at hand for laptop-, i-pod, or the telephonecharger. It can also be fitted with USB or other technology to connect the office. Through serialconnection of the electricity for all the tables the cables are invisible.
NOMONO are especially designed to work in an open-plan office. With its distinct and fixed horizontals the tables calms down an environment that can be experienced as chaotic. The legs have full sides which makes it even easier to organize your office – all the things that normally are found under the table are hidden.
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In Nomono you find integrated cable trays to hide all the cables. The tray is close at hand for laptop-, i-pod, or the telephonecharger. It can also be fitted with USB or other technology to connect the office. Through serialconnection of the electricity for all the tables the cables are invisible.
NOMONO are especially designed to work in an open-plan office. With its distinct and fixed horizontals the tables calms down an environment that can be experienced as chaotic. The legs have full sides which makes it even easier to organize your office – all the things that normally are found under the table are hidden.
via Horreds
Can't stop looking at these coat hooks by design duo Aki and Arnaud Cooren from Paris. The Darts coat hook look like a group of missiles booming your living room wall, while the dragonfly hooks make your room a lively fairyland. These coat hooks are just too cute not to hang on. Just like the designers philosophy: "Our greatest pleasure is awaken your desire."
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An exploration of tangible vs. virtual in relation to real and perceived value. By using Google image search, Mike and Maaike browsed through some of the world most famous & expensive jewelry photos, they 'stole' some of the low-res images, doctored, then transferred to the leather medium, creating a tangible new incarnation.
With the expense and intricacy of the jewels stripped away, their essence and visual intensity are extracted, and printed to create these pixel-like "jewelry".
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via Mike and Maaike
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