The Pill Wall Desk is designed by Lithuanian-based Emko, a furniture and home accessory design company that takes inspiration from the intersection of Northern Scandinavian, Western European and Eastern Russian cultural spaces to create products for the modern home. Multifunctional and stylish, the desk aims to provide the cure for cluttered living spaces while also offering an innovative way of creating a compact workspace. The round cabinet can be installed on a wall at any height, to suit the needs of the owner. Its interior features display and storage spaces, with an adjustable shelving system and sockets. Thanks to its ingenious and adaptable design, it can be used as a working desk, bar, storage space, or bookshelf. Available here in white with a white or black back, the Pill Wall Desk also comes in black, blue and yellow.
This digital inhaler is a practical and innovative asthma device created by design firm Cardboard Helicopter for Global Prime Healthcare.
From the designers: Global Prime Healthcare approached us with the desire to add an innovative delivery mechanism for self-management of asthma and COPD. We developed a digital inhaler to include a digital readout to allow patients to know more about the inhaled dosage, the amount of pumps that remain, as well as insight about the optimal moments to use the device, all in real time. The intuitive application was also developed to detect impairment in medication usage, and boasts enhanced product stability and increased lung penetration of the medication. The back lit LCD screen links to a cartridge, providing a consistent readout for patients so they won’t ever be without medication when they need it. The design went through months of hands-on testing and ethnography development to ultimately produce an inhaler that was easy to use, ergonomic and intuitive for asthma and COPD sufferers of all ages.
Having completed extensive research on the difficulties of using an inhaler, we wanted to design the first inhaler to allow users to use their entire hand to apply pressure, instead of just an index finger. This provides children, the elderly, and individuals with disabilities or arthritis with an easy and pain-free way to delivery medication through the device.
From: Core 77
The Torsion chair by designer Natalie Musorina is designed to be made out of one single strip of plywood, painstakingly bent along a defined 3D curve to create a Mobius strip-esque shape. The concept of torsion comes into the way the wood is bent. The chair’s fabric is weaved into this very wooden strip providing a tensile seating device within a torsion bent wood strip.
Via: Yanko Design
The Copenhagen is a stylish bluetooth speaker for women designed by studio Design-People for sound systems brand Vifa. Inspired by Scandinavian design and created for women, the speaker comes in 6 colors and is covered with a special-woven textile material produced by Europe’s leading manufacturer of design textiles, Kvadrat.
“Creating authentic sound has been our passion for more than 80 years. Copenhagen weaves years of refined craftsmanship with contemporary lifestyle. With its light Nordic design, the loudspeaker plays elegantly together with the surroundings. Simple to use and portable, Copenhagen lets you create the atmosphere to suit your moment. It’s pure enjoyment in every detail.”
Copenhagen will be available soon via website.
The Evolution Door by Austrian artist Klemmens Torggler is an invention based on rotating squares, The special construction makes it possible to move the door sideways without the use of tracks. This technical trick opens up new applications for the door. To understand how it looks is best to look at the video.
Spanish architecture firm Selgas Cano developed this amzing office space in the middle of a forest near Madrid. The estructure is half buried in the ground. Photography by Iwan Baan.
Netatmo, a company that develops products that monitor weather & environment, creators of the Urban Weather Station system has worked with designer Philippe Stark to create the Netatmo Thermostat a beautiful product that combines great design and functionality to control heating remotely using your smarthphone, tablet or computer to reduce energy consumption.
Netatmo Thermostat also learn your habits and adjust your environment accordingly, it knows when you go to sleep, arrive home from work or when the day starts and ends giving you the ideal temperature for all your activities.
Via Tuvie.