Tag: Inspiration

This might appeal to those who place sticky notes on their monitor's bezel. Called Contour, it's by Budapest-based industrial designer Adam Miklosi. It's designed to attach to an iMac, and sits about 20mm behind the plane of the screen.Is it better than sticky notes? The only advantage I see is that you don't have to orient your note according to that line of adhesive.

This unusual object is by Norwegian industrial designer Daniel Rybakken. Straddling the boundary between furniture and décor, it's a sort of add-on alcove, fittingly called Niche. Niche is a shelf referencing the architectural element. The faceted walls and roof transforms the object into something that feels almost like an alcove or a nest (the original meaning of the word niche, from L

This Geo object, invented by a faceless, anonymous and unnamed company, is a circular multi-tool. Obviously inspired by a fidget spinner, it features a rotating dial with five tool edges and a lanyard attachment point arrayed around it. You rotate it to expose the desired feature.

In the 1960s, Danish industrial designer Jens Quistgaard created these beautiful candleholders for Dansk:He also designed special candles for them that were "slim, elegant and designed not to drip or bend," explains modern-day Danish designer Thomas D. Westergaard."The candleholders can still be found at flea markets all over the world," Westergaard says, but "finding candles for these holders is almost impossible."Seeking to create his own, Westergaard dove in

Child seats for bikes are nothing new. But this Go Plus, an e-bike from Danish manufacturer MATE, was designed from the ground-up specifically for a parent to haul a child. The lowered frame and extended wheelbase drop the bike's center of gravity, providing stable handling that the company reckons is safer than typical kid-hauling bike set-ups.

Wall-mounted coat racks should be horizontal, for the sake of UX. But tight European apartments often don't have the space. Industrial designers Oskar Lillo and Juliette Guéganton thus designed this Vertical coat rack, which sacrifices some UX in order to deal with space constraints: The assembly method is quite nifty:

This amusingly overproduced Day Display is by New-Zealand-based Stupid Engineering. "Made of precision milled and bent 2mm aluminium, the Day Display is a Stupid solution to a stupid problem."

This X Deck is a dedicated DJ console made of stainless steel and brass. Though it looks like a piece of 1970s Italian Modernism, it was actually designed present-day by NYC-Paris-based design studio Slash Objects.

Philips has released a dual-sided 24" monitor, intended for business or hospitality environments. The company says the arrangement offers "unmatched convenience" and allows for "seamless collaboration." The idea is that it can be used to share information during face-to-face meetings. However, I think the concept is inherently flawed, from an ergonomic perspective. The entire point of a face-to-face meeting is, well, to see the other person's face. And when we look at screens,

It's pleasing to see a veteran industrial designer practicing the art of reduction. This Monza shelf bracket, by British ID'er Michael Marriott, uses the barest amount of material possible to fulfill its mission: The packaging, too, is quite minimal.