Starry Night Canvas Light
I am loving this dreamy starry night light by Corinne on Threadbanger.
design
Brendan Dawes: Sharing Your Work
This week, I interviewed the designer and maker Brendan Dawes for my podcast, Looking Sideways. Brendan’s known for early interactive web projects like Psycho Studio, that allows users to remix Hitchcock’s famous shower scene themselves. He’s also known for his physical projects, such as the Moviepeg and Popa iPhone accessories, and devices that cross the digital/physical divide, such as the Happiness Machine, an internet-connected printer that prints random happy thoughts from people across the web. We talked about designing physical objects that embody hidden digital information.
A Micro-House Inspired by a Prison Cell
Plenty of small homes and small interior spaces take their cues from boat and airplane interiors, however this is the first I’d heard about where the inspiration for the design came from a prison, and expertise from the prisoners.
Pitches with Prototypes: Open Clock Project
Next in our run-up coverage for the MAKE 2013 Hardware Innovation Workshop is Craig Bonsignore’s Open Clock Project. Bonsignore is a biomedical engineer with more than fifteen years of experience designing, developing, and analyzing cardiovascular implants. And he’s fed up with badly designed alarm clocks.
Couch Potato Perfection: Self-Assembling Furniture
“The idea is that you can buy it in a local store,” explains designer Carl de Smet. “It’s a small package, you put it under your arm, and you carry it home because it’s also super light. Then at home you plug it into electricity,” he continues. Ten minutes later your chair will be ready.
Temporary Housing Units
Housing people in an emergency is never easy and designer Michel Antoun has an interesting take on providing shelter. His temporary housing unit is made from compressed wood panels and folds up into a cube for easy shipping. Once deployed at a disaster site one wall cleverly folds down, which both doubles the square footage of the shelter and exposes solar cells to provide power to the shelter.
Gilded Geode Ring
Swell Mayde has me swooning over these handmade gilded geode rings.
