HOIMING MOBILE ASHTRAY

Our friend, Hoiming and Baldwin's, mobile ashtray design.

More bag design at hoiming.net for the full collection.

COIN BANK

Coin bank is all the rage in Tokyo this year.

MOBILE ASHTRAY MUSEUM

Mobile Ashtray Museum and new Camel Menthol.

FACTORY VISIT IN JAPAN

We are currently designing a set of furnitures, more on this projects later.

Anyway, here is one of the factories we visited during our trip to Shizuoka. This wood-working factory must be one of the cleanest we have yet to see. And I must add that, this is the first factory (that we have visited so far) that is air-conditioned; a rarity in China.

PHILIPPE STARCK vs. SCARFACE

Oh my, this should be a good fight...

Starck's $1748 AK47 (table lamp for Flos) vs. Scarface's $44.98 M16A1 assault rifle (table lamp)

Does spraying the $44.98 M16 in gold make the budget-lamp look as classy as Starck's AK47?

And why is Starck's AK47 so much more expensive?? I know, Flos will donate twenty percent of the gross sales from the Guns Collection to the Freres des Hommes Europe Association (an organization that works the growth of local communities & their social structure in underdeveloped countries for the world); but that's still three times the price of the M16.

A STACKING HOMMAGE

Dirk Winkel's Stacking Hommage is too good to be true! Any interested manufacturers out there? Anyone?

dirkwinkel.com

Tapisofa

Guess what are they? Carpet? Waste paper?

The answer is: sofa!

This sofa, called Tapisofa, was designed to be placed in corner, with unpredictable but natural shapes that create seats in your house. (But I think your guests won't know this "carpet" is a sofa...)

It is designed by a young french product designer Olivier Gregoire. He shows a balance between art and industry, form and content, the sensitive and the functional.

Take a look at other works by Olivier! They are really cool and amazing~

http://www.oliviergregoire.com

WE ARE ALL FOR THE CRATE

Oh yeah, the never-ending debate of 'design' vs 'found-objects.' Click 'here' to read excerpts of Freegorifero and Jasper Morrison's e-mail exchange regarding Morrison's £95 designer table/storage.

My opinion of The Crate? I couldn't agree more with Morrison's view on this matter; but I already have a found-wine-crate beside my bed.