Interior Design Sense

I think I’ve confessed one too many times that tho I’m a coffee addict, I just can’t spend too much time nurturing it. There are actually freaks like me who LOVE instant coffee and don’t want to do the grinding-percolating routine. Which is why I simply adore this ceramic-glass fusion called Coffee Set. It’s a cup with a slotted bottom that holds in just right amount of coffee powder and water, for you to stir the mixture with the handle. Yup no spoons required! The design gets even more interesting with the saucer, which has a missing bottom!

This empty space is for fitting in your cup snugly and keeping the brew warm for a longer time via insulation.

I know many of you may be going “tsk tsk” for the cleaning part, I mean getting the cup spanky clean thanks to the slotted bottom doesn’t sound easy. But for fancy design’s sake, I’m willing to adopt this set, plus I don’t do the dishes….so it’s really not my headache!

Designer: Yali Dai

Long before it became a fad to hire interior designers to do up your rooms, humble folks just rearranged their furniture to give their home a new look. Times and trends now dictate that either we use innovative stuff that never gets obsolete or keep hiring the cash-drain! Fitting into the former category is the EQUALIZE Multifunctional Furniture Modules; a set of three pieces that can be configured in your free-fancy way. Create sofa, couch, folding table, flower or fruit vase!

Designer: Olga Kalugina

Its International Women’s Day and its befitting that I confuse you guys with Andy Kurovets’ Maze Of Time. There is a connection between the two… you had fun at the expense of the female anatomy and now it’s time to pay for those silly smirks! The Maze Of Time watch uses colors in a kaleidoscopic way to represent the time. So when you see a chaotic yellow line below, it’s actually the number “1”. Blue is the number “2”, red color stands for “3”, and “4” corresponds to the green etc. Kinda TokyoFlash-esque and time to get your grey cells working!

Designer: Andy Kurovets

I know when you think Futuristic, you think Ironing. I know that when you drew (or draw) pictures of the future with crayons, you made sure those space-people had nice, no-wrinkle shirts on, right? Right! So what we need here is Adam Wendel’s “Infinity Iron.” It is an iron for the future. For sure. With its interactive nature and unique form, it will make the world a flatter place, with great skill and aesthetically pleasing form.

And it’s made to prevent arthritis. That horrible, horrible hand job that 1 in 3 people are affected by. Using this machine is grace. The shell pivots along the center sphere, reducing the amount of turning the wrist of the hand has to do drastically. The center sphere also acts as a water reservoir for steaming.

The device automatically gets hot (quickly) when the hand touches the top, and has sensors on the bottom too, turning off if it senses the risk of burning or catching on fire.

The water ball illuminates to a lovely blue when the desired heat is reached, having been programmed in by you on the OLED touch screen on the top, the display and the control. The shell has the screen on the front, and textured rubber on the back for superior grip.

Designer: Adam Wendel

This right here is called “Waterfall.” It’s totally beautiful. Let’s just get that straight right now. Next, let’s talk about what the heck it is. It’s a project by designer Barbara Bona that came to her brain while she was studying the space of a window. Noting that while during the day, a window shows natural daylight, during the night, it’s totally just a black, blank screen. So she decided to take advantage of the space and totally light up the night.

She made the totally modern decision and got herself a bunch of LED bulbs. Then she picked up a handful of fabric. Bona then took the initiative and integrated the bulbs right into a curtain rod, noting that of all the things in the home arena, the curtain rod must certainly be one of the least innovated upon. The LEDs show true, “powerfully and directionally” illuminating the area without excessive heat.

She then added the slightly veiling, slightly reflective fabric to accentuate the situation.

Added the name Waterfall.

And that was that!

Designer: Barbara Bona

Hey Dad, you’ve got to clean some diapers, Dad. This isn’t 1950, Dad, get over here and take care of this baybah! What you’re about to find is three different Baby Beds, not all of them directed directly at Dad, but they’d sure be useful for the baby! And since you’re reading this blog, you know – you know exactly what you wanted when you were a baby – innovation! See below the “Flip Bath,” Dad’s “Changing Bag,” and the “Modular Rocker.” Not for hard rock!

First down there you’re going to see the Flip Bath. It will accommodate the heck out of your baby as he or she grows up. Use one side until the baby’s butt gets too big to butt down in the tub, then flip. If the baby is then still too big, it’s time to get a new Flip Bath.

Next there’s Dad’s Changing Bag. Dad! Change that poopy! This is a bag that probably anyone could use, but it’s aimed at Dad in name. It has all the supplies you’d ever want for changing diapers, as well as some other parental essential items. Fold-out changing station for when you’re at the bus station, clean, raised, nice.

*I have to share with everyone a fact that noone really needs to know, I am just so proud of it: it was only last week that I got to change the very first diaper I have ever changed. It was a moderately soiled one right off my godson’s butt. Please refrain from sending too much cash in your congratulation cards.

Finally the Modular Rocker is for baby rock and rollers. It’s made up of some sleek individual components that can combine into a series of transformers, changing with the baby as the baby turns into a bigger baby. Scary huh? Babies turn into adults!

Designer: Evan Gant of Altitude Inc.

How much wine do you drink a year? How about a month? A day? Wow you drink a lot. And how do you display that wine out in the open? You don’t just stand it there next to your toaster do you? For shame! You’ve got fabulous taste in wine, you aught to be twisting it up nice in a knot, a “Wine Knot.” Everyone will ohh and ahh! at you when they stick their eyes upon this beautiful wood and metal masterpiece. This piece of wildness is made of two intersecting bent pieces of plywood held up by a simple metal rack. Rack em up!

You can stick 6 of your regular wines in there, and a big one in the center. Not for those who have a ton of kiddies around, unless of course you keep your wine out of their reach anyway? I bet you do. Kiddies can’t be drinking wine. You drink wine!

Designers: Scott Henderson, Tony Baxter, and Alberto Mantilla [Buy It Here, Wine Knot Wine Rack is available for $128 @ YD Store]

Wine Knot Wine Rack is available for $128 @ YD Store

My memory for movies is trash but I’m sure there must have been many which featured a scene where the hero and heroine accidentally bump into each other, around a corner…papers fly outta their hand, they look into each other’s eyes and fall hopelessly in love. Revise this scene with the Corner’s Communication Warning Sign and it’s ought to be a killjoy. But for practical purposes, down long office corridors, restaurants and hospitals, this corner sign could save a lot of spills. The tweeky thang emits a little sound and lights up when it senses someone approaching round the bend.

Designer: Sanghoon Lee

Most of the time you’re nudging your co-bench partner to give you more seat space. So essentially sitting on benches really sucks. Generally they’re hard slabs of wood or concrete and do nothing much for your posterior or fun! This is the reason why we need more of the Swing Together Bench; I don’t need to say much…just have a look at the video and you’ll get the full picture. Google Offices can do with this swing!

Designer: Hanyoung Lee

The title of this post is pretty boring but it describes exactly what this concept is; a Light Tree. The artificial tree is covered in solar cells that power ultra-bright LEDs at the base. The light diffuses thru water which fills the entire cavity of the tree for that “glowy” look. The upper extremities hold seeds to REAL PLANTS, like OMG! I was getting worried about the total artificiality of this concept but at least you’ve got some green shrubbery in there.

Designer: Omar Ivan Huerta Cardoso