Tag: Inspiration

Here's what we looked at this week:Audi unveils secret supercar, new design direction. Industrial designer Fengfan Yang's table re-think with +Halle.Veteran industrial designer Michael Marriott's Monza, a minimalist shelf bracket.

Melbourne-based designer Villo Hietanen builds chairs without legs. They source their support from the environment, using magnets, suction units or straps:

This stacking Concert Chair is by Canadian industrial designer Jamie Wolfond. It has magnets along its sides, allowing it to perform a visual trick when placed alongside its mates:"The chair owes its unconventional form to a half round profile which forms its entire structure," Wolfond writes. "When put side-by-side, these profiles form a complete circle, creating the impression of a single circular leg."

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."