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German designer Siren Elise Wilhelmsen exhibited her 365 knitting clock at DMY International Design Festival Berlin. The clock includes a circular knitting machine with 48 needles, a thread spool, a thread holder, and roll of yarn. The design seeks to make time a tangible, physical thing. It moves clockwise and after one year, creates a scarf two meters long.
TLS x AB “Time Is Up” Clock by Anthony Burrill is made of laser cut acrylic. Through a series of ideas and prototypes, Anthony developed a concept for a simple clock that could be manufactured almost entirely out of one piece of acrylic. Collaborating with The Lollipop Shoppe, they developed the prototype into a final production version. The design is simple, but each detail of the clock has been considered and developed thoroughly, right down to the packaging.
While sourcing cool tech stuff to write about for ReadyMade’s Control Room, I spotted this Art Lebedev Reflectius Clock. It uses a laser beam and rotating mirrors to create the numbers. Check out the website for a demo.
I know Boca Do Lobo isn’t the usual modern furniture we post here on Design Milk, but with every piece they make I get more and more into this brand. Here are some new pieces:
Frank Limited Edition Chest of Drawers
Samuel Treindl has an interesting collection of concepts made into physical objects. Even though these are just concepts, they’d make quite useful things in everyday life. I’d love to own the clock, which provides a three-minute reserve with the minute hand!
From the designer:
Our everyday life is characterized by social norms and behaviour patterns. The product line “tickreich“ responds to our everyday quirks and cultivates them at the same time. We wind up a cable between hand and elbow. We set our clocks forward just a bit. We don‘t always hit the bin with the wadded paper – everybody knows these situations. These habits have been analysed and put together into a collection.
Clever!
Paris-based design studio Moustache has a second collection of furnishings that will be presented this week in Milan. The Petite Gigue chair pictured above doesn’t look as strong as a four-legged chair, but it is actually very stable and its stability is reinforced by the two legs of its user.
From the press release:
Rather than artificially developing the principle of novelty at any price, the products produced by Moustache will attempt to take advantage of passing time and to give them a little of the heritage value that furniture and objects held in the past. Far however from looking nostalgically at the contemporary production of the objects, the Moustache collection will try to anticipate and project the solutions for our scenarios for future life.
This is such a simple but very neat idea from Rafael Morgan: a clock with hands that have magnifying lenses to make the little numbers bigger and easier to read for telling time. I hope a producer picks this concept up and manufactures it!
[via Core77]
Icona is a cuckoo clock by Giovanni Levanti for Diamantini & Domeniconi with a great range of bright and deep inky colors. The name Icona recalls the simplicity and the expressive strength of flat shapes and shiny colors.
Just wave your hand over Gesture Cube to access music, web, your family and friends. You don’t even need to touch the surface. Gesture Cube uses 3D spatial movement tracking to detect your hand’s approach and movements — like magic!
Using natural gestures to control our electronics helps to draw them closer to human behavior, making things easier and more fun. The result is an intuitive product concept with unlimited possibilities. LUNAR Europe designed Gesture Cube as a three-dimensional object without a clear front to allow a wider range of gestures for its interface, to show different levels of an application or to conveniently multitask between various applications. The Gesture Cube’s design is simple and minimal, blending nicely into your living space.
