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Snappy Tables provide a simple solution to compact living spaces. Founder Dean Robinson crafts each petite table from bamboo, plastic or or maple Europly, adding a convenient handle to the lightweight frame for a portable, easy-to-pack piece of furniture. The handle also serves as the starting point for unfolding the which easily swings open and rests on its legs. Via:[Coolhunting]

Website:www.snappytables.com/

The Sfumato clock employs sfumato, a technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms. The clock’s hands disappear gradually from the outside in. The clock mechanism is concealed behind the plexiglas dial which is gradient printed.

Node by Charlotte Talbot is a hand made basket is made of hardened polypropylene rope. It can be used to put objects in or as a fruit basket.

Gaignal by Dimitri Bähler is a storage set for pens and office stationery. The shapes come from the used material’s “maximal capacities”; thermo shrinkable tube. The base is made of turned maple.

Sac A Dos / Pochette by Linn Kandel, two bags with a small volume for everyday use. Made of Tyvek – a strong, light and waterproof material.

Kitchen Clock by Anurag Etchepareborda is a little table clock that, “by its radical and simple design allows the user to contemplate an aesthetic purely based on the quality of the wood.”

A wall clock that’s barely there by Linn Kandel is one of several new products from new design brand La Vague. La Vague, “the wave” in french, is a platform for self-produced products by a group of young designers that includes Dimitri Bähler, Anurag Etchpareborda, Anne Julmy, Linn Kandel and Charlotte Talbot. “As a publisher of self-produced objects, La Vague can offer different objects at various levels of production ranging from several hundred copies to very limited editions, to unique pieces.” Via:[mocoloco]

Website:www.la-vague.ch/

photos by benjamin boccas

Paul Coudamy has taken Airbus windows and recycled them to create a modular lighting concept.
The ‘F-light’ is constructed from the walls / windows of an airbus A300, whereby the engineered curves, windows and insulation of the airplane takes on a second life as a functional lighting structure.

Website:coudamydesign.com/

Seoul designers HawaSoo have designed a clothes rail, a lamp and a stool that are styled like components of a bicycle. Called Breeze, the collection features a lamp with a long pole and handlebar-like supports to lean against the wall, a red stool with one diagonal leg echoing the usual line of a saddle support and a rack for clothes with a wheel at just one end. Via:[Dezeen]

Kennedy James‘ Serial Bondage series features chairs tied up, strung up and hung up in the ancient art of Japanese Shibari (rope bondage). Via:[DesignMilk]
www.dontstareatthesun.com/

Akai releases its MPC Fly for the iPad 2. The machine combines 16 backlit MPC pads into its built-in iPad 2 case, the MPC Fly has an integrated iOS app with loads of effects, a four-track mixer, sound library, sample editing and an EQ.

Website:www.akaipro.com/

Ben Austin FAD’s Editor At Large caught up with Beau McClellan who exhibited a large-scale interactive lighting installation at London Art Fair 2012. This spectacular centrepiece was presented at the entrance to the Business Design Centre, where visitors could control the colour effects using an iPad.

With its combination of innovative, contemporary design and cutting edge RGB LED technology, the five metre long piece used the studio’s signature mirror reflective coating. Designed to showcase its artistic, sculpture-like form during the day, the Nomad then transformed into a stunning semi-transparent light installation at night.

www.beaumcclellan.com

A minimal iPad stand made from pure aluminum and hand-finished to match the iPad almost perfectly, uses brutally strong neodymium magnets to attach securely to your iPad 2, holding it at a perfect viewing angle while hiding almost completely out of sight. Also dirt cheap!

Website:www.tenonedesign.com/