Nook

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Display your favorite books or store your necessary electronics in the convenient and contemporary Nook.

An innovative coffee table, the Nook has a built-in bookshelf that provides a unique way to display your accessories or store extra remotes or pillows.

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The geometric flow of the Nook coffee table creates the illusion of floating from various views.

The Nook is designed by Dave Pickett, a product design student at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Original post: sixdifferentways.com

Friday Five with Scott Wilson

Scott Wilson, founder of Chicago-based design studio MINIMAL , is an accomplished designer and former Global Creative Director at Nike. Over his eighteen year career Wilson has lead design organizations such as IDEO, Thomson Consumer Electronics, Fortune Brands, and Motorola. Most recently, Wilson and MINIMAL have garnered much acclaim for their TikTok + LunaTik iPod Nano Watch Kits, which shattered records to become the highest funded project in the history of Kickstarter.com, a crowd-funding platform for creative projects. Other recent design collaborations include Microsoft’s Xbox 360 + Kinect Sensor, Dell’s Venue Pro Smartphone and the SW1 Conference/Lounge Collection for Coalesse, which we checked out at NeoCon 2010 and it was pretty sweet. An extensive 45-piece collection, the SW1 rethinks the conference setting and the notion of live/work

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Friday Five with Scott Wilson