Definately not pencil sharpenings, Studio Lilica’s architectural lighting (Fortune Cookie (left) and Heart’s Mobile (right) ) are a delight.

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Studio Lilica

On Sustain doesn’t like Sensory Impact very much.

“The time for dumb design is over”, screams their site (obviously an underhanded jab at Sensory’s indiscriminate coverage), “sustainability is leading the way!” To which we say … er. . nothing. (sheepish grin) and point you towards their eco-friendly site.

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On Sustain

When is a coffee table not just a coffee table?
For those who like their cars fast and their coffee table faster
Whats got one leg and has you looking twice

Damn it, its just a coffee table, and a very pretty one.

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Zanotta.it (via The Cool Hunter)

Tree is designer Michael Young and Katrin Peturdsdottir’s wallmounted coat hanger. Only available in white lacquer, black lacquer or birch veneer.

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Swedese

Three Sixty Table

More at home at Tony Hawk’s pad, Christoph Mäurer & Mario Hendrichs new furniture line hijacks sports motifs for its own functional debauchery.

Called simply “The Sports Utility Furniture”, the line currently consists of a coat hanger (not pictured here), a stool (pictured below) and a table (pictured above).

Three Sixty, pictured above, is a rotational table that you can turn around to reach anything on it, whereas, the stool, combines the full functionality of a regular stool and the service of a real bike-rack, so a person could use it to put their personal equipment there.

Sozius: Stool

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Sports Utility Furniture

While I don’t cover every gadget under the sun, this accessory for the ipod won me over with its clever name and marketing. Pod paws, as they are called, are acrylic adhesive so you could use it on your ipod buttons and sliders, or use the round dot ones as a barrier between your pod and a table surface. That’s it, really.

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Pod Paws

Name: Peek a Boo
Designer: Stefan Borselius
Year: 2OO5

The perfect chair for the hermit in you – Stefan’s Peek-a-boo comes with a mini roof so that you can get some privacy, or you could use it as a cellphone booth.

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Stefan Borselius

So in order to promote their new customizable shoe site, Nike approached, atleast according to them, “20 of the internet’s greatest purveyers of sneaker culture and issued them a challenge: design the hottest shoe on the information superhighway”, which is all very flattering, given that I’m one of the “internet’s greatest purveyer of sneaker culture”.

That’s right, Nike came knocking on my door, begging me to design their next big shoe until my ears bled. ALRIGHT!, I screamed, dragging out my crayons and digging up my sleeves.

Oh, that won’t be necessary, They said.

Wha_?

We just want you to choose some colors.

Oh

But I’m not really designing anything, am I?

No.

Oh

A few minutes later, I had my quote and unquote design ready called “Sense This”. Yes, it’s the fiery piece of genius pictured above, and all I need to do now is sucker you lot into voting every day in exchange for 100 50 pairs of Nikes.

Also, I get to sign away my right to mention any rival shoe companies on my blog, which is nothing a little bribery can’t help you get over.

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Nike ID: Independent Design Contest

Mocoloco has got some excellent pictures from their coverage of the ICFF show. Check it out.

YESbutNObutYES points us towards Dune’s “self-contained interior living environment” or Luna project for short.

According to their brochure, the design company behind the project have no idea what Luna is. Is it a piece of furniture, a small house, .etc.

We just think of it as a modern day western contemporary majlis.

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The Luna Project (via Yesbutnobutyes)
Si: The Contemporary Majlis

Quite a while back, we wrote about subverted objects and followed it up with a piece that focuses solely on objects that either subverted a violent one by playing with its perceived function or vice versa.

Well,just recently the New York Times did a feature on the recent Saloni Milan Exhibition where they spotted these three potential contenders for the list:

The first one is by Jeroen Verhoeven, a student of the Design Academy Eindhoven where he
introduces the art of crochet to fence design.

Philippe Starck also joins in the fun with his “Love-it-or-hate-it” gun collection for Flos. The one in the picture is a 18-karat gold-lated beside lamp and i hear that there is a floor lamp version that is modeled after a Kalashnikov that, according to Starck, illustrate his aim to “poke fun at our fears about war and security”.

And finally, Young British talent Matthias Aron Meguyeri’s BillyB, a padlock and heart to heart chain for his “Sweet Dreams” Security line of products.

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The New York Times Milan Photo Coverage
Si: Objects of Violence
Si: The Geometry of Sensation

This reminds me of a really old travel belt my father owns that he used to wear across his chest, except now its evolved into a bag for quote unquote easy urban travelling.

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Simplicitas : Urbana bag

Given the success of the first chandelier for Swarovski, Yves Behar’s decided to become a regular with his beautiful new Swarovski Voyage chandelier at this year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile.

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Yves Behar: Fuse Project

I spotted this at Ambiente Arabia exhibition in Dubai – a Shisha, an oriental tobacco pipe that double as a lamp.

Another one to file under “Why didn’t think of that”.