In August 2010 we wrote...
Concrete Sofa
This concrete Chesterfield sofa was made by Gray Concrete for the 100% Design London exhibition. The mold was taken from a real Chesterfield complete with authentic bum prints. Gray have made some stunning pieces in concrete. Turning concrete from something…
Wooden Mirror
Daniel Rozin made a mirror out of 830 servo-driven wooden blocks, a camera and some software. It makes a cool sound as the angle of the blocks changes - to change the pixel brightness. This is from 1999 not new…
RocKandRoll Radiator
Karim Rashid has designed the RocKandRoll radiator for Idee. It's a beautiful pile of hot rocks. Gedit? Also available in pink and blue.
Right, that's enough radiators for a while. I'm off to lie down in a cool room.…
Radiator As Art
The I am furniture project from Studio vRaay explores the possibility of radiators becoming pieces of funiture. They're electrically heated. The pieces can be seen in the Autofficina exhibition in sunny Eindhoven.
Transparent Glass Radiators
Saint-Gobain Glass make a product called Thermovit Elegance which is transparent glass which can be electrically heated. No moving parts. No pipes. Just beautiful radiators.
Art Glass Radiators
Tell Me First has developed a radiator system which fronts the radiators with glass. Any picture can be printed on to the glass front - so your radiators can look beautiful.
A video of various designs is embedded below from…
Radiator Chair
With temperatures in Shanghai tipping 40C, what better time to think about heaters? Jeroen Wesselink has made a chair out of a radiator. Now there's a warm seat.
An action video of the manufacture is embedded below from YouTube.
I've…
Pencils From Old Newspapers
Since 1998 TreeSmart have been making pencils out of recycled newspapers. This is such a cool idea! The trees have already been cut down to make the paper for the newspapers - why not re-use instead of cutting down more…
Lego Headphones
We're loving these DIY headphones made out of Lego found over on Instructables. Nice little weekend project with the kids...
