Showing posts with label furniture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label furniture. Show all posts

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Napkin Table by Michael Jan


and article via FastCo.

Friday, November 4, 2011

1:1, a look inside...


more images here

1:1 description

Furniture as a social media,
Conversations versus tweets,
The things between us,
Just between you and me.

1:1 is a project for Houston Community College southeast campus during my time as artist in residence. I sought to create a piece that addresses Houston Community College’s relationship with its surrounding community. Communication was the key to this and became the primary concept for the work. At its essence, communication is between two people, one person to one person.

Conversation versus updates. Today, communication and social media are increasingly entwined. Our attention is easily fractured by constant updates, tweets, alerts and texts. Short bursts of text can be useful, but serve as a poor substitute for a conversation. The prevalent form of 1:1 is a box, to sit on and to present each person as an avatar, a physical screen presence. 1:1 is a space for conversation without visual or audible distractions. Inside walls are lined with acoustic material to minimize sounds from coming in and going out.

1:1, just like skype and facetime, but without the time lag and infinite resolution!

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Monday, December 21, 2009

Table & Tennis


by Ryan Vanderbilt

Multiuse furniture, love it.

Its tricky, too many functions and it becomes silly or doesn't do anything well.
This? I just really like or maybe, its just I like ping pong...

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Linger Bench


by Indonesian design firm alvinT

All bamboo,
all good.

I like how the frame is revealed through the outer surface, nice!