August 25th, 2012 — Design
Chris Streng, New York-based designer and director of streng , a design and branding firm with outposts in New York City and Chicago, has worked with some huge names, including Swatch, MUJI, KitchenAid, Kohler, Motorola, Urban Outfitters. As you probably guessed from this roster, his creations span consumer goods to fashion, housewares, furniture, and emerging technologies. His newest project, the Meme stool, is a continuous sheet of aluminum forced into shape via a hand-formed metal turning process.
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Friday Five with Chris Streng
August 1st, 2012 — Design
Asterisk is a puzzle stool created for children by Canadian industrial design student, Christina Sicoli . Made from 17 interlocking pieces, the stool assembles with no tools making it easy for kid’s to put together and take apart.
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Asterisk: A Children’s Puzzle Stool
June 16th, 2011 — Design
UK-based designer Rupert McKelvie has hand constructed a table using thousands of jigsaw pieces. Taking hundreds of hours, he only used puzzle sets that had missing pieces. I’m glad he could put those puzzles to good use. No one likes getting to the end of a puzzle and realizing that there are a few pieces missing. Photos by James Forshall
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Missing Pieces Table by Rupert McKelvie
November 27th, 2010 — Design
Tabula Rasa by Benoît Police is a table that contains a series of puzzle pieces nested so evenly that you would assume they were always there. Police challenges the idea of the blank slate by “planting” a “memory” in the table — making it seem that perhaps it has always been there. The fact that this memory is made from a puzzle is all the more thought-provoking. I really love this piece and I hope to see more of the series.
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Tabula Rasa by Benoît Police