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April 20, 2009

Recycled barrel chair

This chair is made from a 55-gallon plastic drum, along with six small bolts, nuts, washers, six drywall screws, and a little ingenuity. It's "surprisingly comfortable" (claims its builder).

Recycled 55 Gallon Barrel Chair [Thanks, Seth Robinson!]

April 17, 2009

How-To: Piano lid coffee table

The hardest thing to find for building this piano lid coffee table is the piano lid, but once you find one (check your parents' and grandparents' attics), this project comes together pretty easily!

April 9, 2009

Plumbing pipe lamp

Boris writes:

A week ago Boing Boing ran a short blarticle about these cool Kozo lamps (what's a Kozo lamp? The name of the designer? Wikipedia fails me here!) from Etsy, made from plumbing fixtures. I really, really liked the look, so I decided to make my own.

New Desk Lamp

April 7, 2009

Single-sheet flatpack plywood design competition

The Nature Conservatory is having a competition for designing "an original and compelling object" from a single 4' x 8' sheet of plywood. From the site:

FSC stands for the Forest Stewardship Council. FSC certification means that the wood was produced using sustainable forestry practices recognized by the FSC. This Challenge is meant to raise awareness of the importance of FSC certification. It is a companion initiative to DESIGN 21's FSC Awareness Competition Wood, Paper, Checkmark.

Entries must be flat-pack designs, either using no hardware, or with the use of up to 20 pieces of EcoSystems: Alpha hardware. For PDF instructions and 3D files of the Alpha hardware, please visit Design Green Now.

EcoSystems will provide CNC (computer numerically controlled) routing manufacturing of the winning entry. The wood used is 1" Appleply, a 17 ply panel that has a rotary-cut White Maple face. In addition to being FSC wood, the panels are NAUF (No Added Urea Formaldehyde) and come with a no VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) clear finish.

The deadline is June 2nd, so get your design on! Via Core77. Photo by Peter Guthrie.

April 6, 2009

Open source furniture?

From Wired:

Your next piece of designer furniture could cost less than an Ikea chair--as long as you're willing to make it yourself. Taking a cue from the Linux community and file-sharing services, Berlin-based design guru Ronen Kadushin has started a furniture free-for-all he calls Open Design. It allows crafty consumers to download the instructions, photos, and AutoCAD files needed to knock off his work.

Mod That Table: High-End Furniture Goes Open Source [via EMS Labs Twiiter feed]

March 28, 2009

EDAR makes shelter

Marketplace introduced me to the idea of the convertible shopping cart the other morning. The problem is that people need a place to live, and that a decent shelter can be provided by working off the form of the shopping cart. By providing a personal place for people, homeless people can begin to regain their dignity. EDAR, or Everyone Deserves A Roof, has developed an early production model that can begin to address the problem.

This system could also provide a good solution to temporary housing following disasters, it is enclosed, sits off the ground, folds up and provides some storage for personal effects. People can participate in the project by donating a unit or more to organizations in need.

March 7, 2009

Salvaged-parts living room fixture

Josh Kopel, of Dorkbot Seattle, made this lovely ceiling fixture from a colander and a sand strainer he got at RE Store, a used building supply place in Seattle.

[via The Genteel Recessionista]

February 17, 2009

Wooden gear window blinds

MAKE subscriber Dug North sent us a link to Steve Garrision's amazing wooden gear window blinds made from walnut slats and frame, pecan handles, and cherry gears and pulleys.

Window Blinds

February 13, 2009

Lamps made from slides and film

Artist and MAKE subscriber Michael Marcovici sent us the link to these amazing lamps he made out of mounted slides and reels of film. While you're at his site, check out his other amazing work.

Lights

January 29, 2009

DIY Couch

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Project log of a homemade couch with a lot of storage-space, moving back and integrated additional seats...

January 28, 2009

Blue Spark

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"A custom-made life is better than a Wal-Mart world," says Sean Barrow. Tall, dark, and tattooed, Barrow looks more like a rock star than the avid eco-design aficionado he is.

His post-apocalyptic appearance at first glance seems at odds with the elegant, minimal, Japa-nese-inspired aesthetic he studies and employs in his sustainable furniture making. But both display his practical approach to 21st-century salvage: to reveal rare beauty and utility from former chaos.

Case in point: the sleek Electron Monument, a bewitching handmade side table that hides an array of outlets for electronic devices and their chargers. "'Charging station' sounds so unsexy -- hence the name," laughs Barrow, who installed six outlets, capable of handling power blisters as well as standard plugs, in the table's inside base.

Sitting high on salvaged metal legs, the box is made from spalted pin oak that Barrow snagged from a dying tree (which creates the zigzagged black segments in the wood grain), and held together by wooden finger joints. The removable top is reclaimed and sanded zebrawood and rosewood, with sides angled in at 13 degrees (a favorite angle he uses in much of his furniture), finished with nontoxic Osmo oil.

The most compelling feature of the Monument is the hypnotic, softly glowing cobalt light in the front of the box, with machined metal pieces added to create an abstract power-outlet motif. Using almost no energy, it is illuminated with an LED plucked from an old night light.

The combination of traditional Asian design, sustainable resources, and the sci-fi hieroglyph glowing from within the Electron Monument make it a perfect example of Barrow's work, and one of the coolest ways to hide your electronic clutter.

Sean Barrow: skrewgun.com

From the column Made on Earth - MAKE 8, page 24 - Kirsten Anderson.

January 27, 2009

Laser-cut paper doll's furniture

Matt Cottam wrote in with this cool project he made for Papercamp. He started with patterns from The American Girl's Home Book of Work And Play by Helen Campbell (1890) and cut them on a laser cutter on 300gsm paper.

Matt brought the images into Illustrator, and traced their outlines with the pen tool. To cut it, he set a slow, hot laser pen for the outline paths, which let him cut straight through the paper. He had another fast & weak pen set to carve out the grey and black bitmap areas.

Paper Doll's Furniture (Laser Cut) for Papercamp

(Matt will be presenting on using a sketching approach to hardware and software prototyping at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference March 9-12, 2009)

January 22, 2009

Homemade Japanese RV

MAKE subscriber Mike Prevette writes in about this incredible homemade Japanese RV. From the site:

Ok, this car isn't nostalgic (or even a car, really), but the idea is timeless. After graduating high school, three Japanese buddies decided to follow their dream of a year-long cross-country road trip, from the northeastern island of Hokkaido to the southwestern one of Yakushima. But before they set out, the trio built one of the coolest road trip cars ever conceived, from a decrepit mid-80s Toyota Toyoace.

A river of light illuminates from above

"HYPERION_Fragment" by Rosalie is a light sculpture installed at the ZKM museum in Karlsruhe, Germany consisting of 3,150 LEDs that are controlled to display a "river of light" across several distinct color sequences. The project spreads out over an area of 9.25 x 27 meters, so its reach is definitely intimidating. Check out the video to see it in action.

HYPERION_Fragment by Rosalie

How-to: Escape from reality in an old wardrobe

Adam Norton created the" Generic Escape Capsule" which contains everything you need to live while remaining hidden from view. I can't tell you how many times I would like to have an "Escape Capsule" to hide out in until things settle down. Check out the link for more pictures, including the very simple, yet functional, bathroom facilities.

More about How-to: Live inside an old wardrobe

January 19, 2009

Garden pallet work table

Homegrown Evolution has a neat garden work table made from a pallet - very simple. It would make great greenhouse shelves, too. I've heard that pallets are pretty much all chemically-treated so they don't rot - does anyone know if this is true?

Thousands of shopping carts stake out the parking lot

This urban sculpture was made with thousands of standard shopping carts in a Costco parking lot by following the natural curve in a lineup of the carts. What they are protecting, we're not exactly sure, but this might be the equivalent of the crop circle in an urban environment.

Applied Geometry

Paper sculptures turn ordinary space into organic matter

Susan Benarcik creates intricate wall sculptures from recycled paper goods such as old newspapers and other found objects. The papers are put together to resemble honeycomb formations from beehives and other organic or natural designs. Check out the link below for more photos of her interesting creations.

Susan Benarcik via InHabitat

January 16, 2009

Wine cask hotel

This is truly aggressive upcycling:

The De Vrouwe van Stavoren Hotel in the Netherlands salvaged four wine casks from Switzerland and converted them into rooms. Formerly filled with 14,500 liters of Beaujolais wine from the French chateau, each now holds a modest two-person room with standard amenities and even an attached bathroom and sitting room. Visitors from all around the world have traveled to the quaint northern port town of Stavoren to stay in one of these upcycled rooms.

(images, story via Inhabitat)

Ikea furniture sculpture

Matt Wegner found Jeff Carter's cool IKEA furniture sculpture on IKEA Hacker. I love it, but I also think it would make me slightly motion sick.

The Catalog (Blue Tables) are made from Lack tables, each one is cut and reassembled and includes a motorized leg that tilts the table gently up and down. The result is a wave-like motion.

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