Honeycomb Inspired Designs

Ampersand Wallpockets by Tim Karoleff 

MDF Honeycomb Wall, Germany

The Accordion Cabinet by Elisa Strozyk and Sebastian Neeb

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Further Research

These are some of the research I did a few weeks ago before I set my choice to the 3 final concepts. Hope these can help some of you who might need it :)

Save-spacing furniture

Save-spacing furniture

'Cocoon' by Mans Salomonsen

Anti-Gravity by Florian Gross for Konnex

Cocoon couches

Mangrove tree inspired building

Foldable chair - 'Grand' by Sanna Lindstrom and Sigrid Stromgren

The Mini Warp Bookshelf by Onur Müştak 

The Un-Deux-Trois Table by Vito Selma - inspired by spider's web

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Carafe no.5 and no.6

Carafe no.5

Carafe no.6

Designed by Etienne Meneau (2008), these carafes are featuring two sides which inspired by both the roots of a tree and blood-filled veins in the body. The volume of the wine it can store are almost a bottle of wine.
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Pingo Vacuum Jug

Designed by John Sebastian for Stelton (2005)
Through the years, Stelton has produced some of the greatest classics among vacuum jugs. Now, evolution has reached the Pingo vacuum jug, innovative both in function and design, and the Pingo Mini. Both are made of steel and plastic. With Pingo's sharp outlines, its concave upper part, and, especially, its penguin-like look, the vacuum jug appears simple and sleek. And last but not least, it is a shape you remember, even if you have seen it only once.

Pingo gets its simplicity from, among others, the picnic vacuum jug. Its "beak" contains a brand new technology, the jug is completely childproof, and keeps tight when lying down.The jug takes 1 litre and can be used for milk, cream or sugar.

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Pouch

Designed by Olivia Decaris (2010), pouch is a malleable carafe that enables the consumer to fill up their glass by pulling and squeezing the container, with beverages including beer and wine. Inspired by the cow’s udder mechanism and symbolism, Pouch proposes an innovative way to serve, consume and share drinks.

Materials and process:
The product is made of food-grade liquid silicone rubber. The material is tasteless, sustainable and safe according to general health and safety rules. Pouch is Heat and cold resistant: it could be stored in the fridge for cooling.

According to its shape and thickness, the object requires being rotomoulded. The rotation moulding techniques enables to obtain a very thin layer of material that will expand when filled up with liquid. That process also allows an ongoing self production.

Video of the process on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/15802994
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Flavour Power

The form of these spice containers are inspired by flowers. Whether glass or white porcelain “buds”, the colourful spices will pop. Design by Karina Marusinska.

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Feathery

Pheasant Place Mats designed by the famous event designer Preston Bailey.

And oh btw, it's all handmade so each feather is individually attached, how awesome!

"When you see these place mats, you immediately want to touch them, which is exactly how I want guests to feel every time they approach a table I've designed."

-Preston Bailey

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M3 Chair

Beautifully designed by Vienna-based designer Thomas Feichtner. Enjoy :)

Description from the designer :

For Vienna Design Week 2011, Neue Wiener Werkstätte will be showing the M3 Chair developed specifically for this exhibition. This unique object will be juxtaposed with the mass-produced FX10 Lounge Chair, an earlier work by Feichtner which has since become a classic of Austrian design. While these two pieces share a geometric theme, the M3 Chair exhibits an open, wooden cantilever construction that contrasts with the closed body of the Lounge Chair. The installation highlights not only the tension between closed and open, heavy and light, surface and line, and mass-production and the single copy, but also the symbiosis between traditional workmanship and contemporary design. These pieces thus embody Neue Wiener Werkstätte’s ideal of hand-producing technically perfect individual products built to last generations, furniture designed to guarantee historical recognizability—the perfect union of hand-craftsmanship, tradition and design.

Liberated from the demands normally made on a mass-produced item, this design experiments with functionality, structural engineering and material. Both its back and its armrests are mere tangents of the construction, the functions of which are only discovered via actual use. With a seating surface floating within the construction and legs extending far to the sides, the M3 is most assuredly not a chair that saves space—it is much rather one which creates a space. The dimensions of the M3 measure one cubic meter, standing for a conscious way of appropriating one’s own space. Hence the “m3” reference in the name M3 Chair. It is only via the chair that the open space is defined.

The chair is made of one and only one material: oak. This is a conscious choice of materials, harkening back to the woodworking tradition upheld by furniture workshops of yore. The wood renders the chair’s light construction a static experiment which could only succeed in a handmade, unique item. Like many works by Feichtner, the M3 is to be understood as an artistic and experimental examination of design removed from industry and mass-production, as art and design placed in interdisciplinary dialog with one another. The M3 experiment is particularly well-suited to showing that design can free itself from the doctrine of the purely objective and is not automatically obligated to serve industrial utility. It represents a catalyst for the discussion of various positions. The M3 is a contribution to the design festival of the City of Vienna.

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