Happiness Factory is the art & design studio of the blog Happiness is a Beginning, created this year in Paris by 3 friends, Florian, Gille and Tristan. The Happiness Brewery is an art project, where they share emotions that people send them by email and print them on labels, finding place on different sized bottles.
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The Homework Table by Tomas Kral is a work table that has been set to provide maximum functionality. An aluminium cloth is placed on a wooden table then folded to form a refinded extension, a toolbox to store documents, objects, photos. The tilted surface enables the user to lay down open books and continue reading. Handy or?
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Johannes Häuser created ‘Klopf Klopf’, a clever piece of furniture for modern nomads. Our personal circumstances are switching faster than ever and we move our homes almost periodically. Thus our furniture needs to keep up with us. That is exactly the idea behind ‘Klopf Klopf’.
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With The Modern Craft Project, Ketel One has embarked on a quest to seek out contemporary craftsmen who bring traditional skills into the modern day, and reward one outstanding modern craftsman with a prize money of 30,000 EUR. Last Thursday they finally announced the winner. The works of the six finalists were displayed on a vernissage in the hotel ‘Das Stue’ in Berlin.
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Nowadays, finger gestures like tap, scroll, flick, swipe and pinch are considered to be ‘signatures’ of the Apple iPhone. Designer Gabriele Meldaikyte believes that our entire gestures will completely change in the future but she aims to prepare comming generations for it.
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The storage unit ‘Chuck’ by the german designer Natascha Harra-Frischkorn is a flexible shelving system, consisting of 4 mm thick planks of wood that can be adjusted to hold small collections of books and other objects in a beautiful organic shape. ‘Chuck’ plays with flexibility and stability and is individually adaptable in size and form.
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The Daydreamer Desk by Nick V. DeMarco is a commentary on daily work life and the desire to escape from the postmodern malaise of ones job into a world of introspection. The project’s goal is not to encourage employees to spend every moment, including sleep, at their desk but instead to encourage a laid back attitude towards work and life.
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Lego was pretty much the only toy that lasted all through my childhood and I spent precious moments, hours and days playing with the little bricks. The whole world seemed to shrink to the size of my child’s room, where people, houses, cars, animals and trees were made of Lego.
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Tilt by the german designer Tina Schmid is playing with our perception and creates an intense spatial confusion. The graphic transforms into a three dimensional object in space. A clothes valet, that expands from the wall and is up and ready to be used as a hanger for clothes etc. The minimal yet dynamic pieces serve multiple purposes and even serve as a table.
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Design is often a customer service job, thus you’ll have to work with strange client requests frequently. Some leave you almost speechless, right? And it must be quite difficult to answer these type of requests without sounding the least bit sarcastic.
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