Fobe Residence in Marrakech, Morocco by Guilhem Eustache Studio
Guilhem Eustache - a Belgian studio built the 'Forbes Residence'in Marrakech, Marocco. The architect aim was to create a dynamic equilibrium despite the difference of scale. Eustache played with light and shadow to enhance and strengthen the volumes and used local materials and techniques like clay for the exterior walls, tadelack for the baths and stones from the Ourika valley for the floors. The architect has preserved the wildness of the land although they have planted more than 500 trees. The walls have been doubled to help deal with the climate creating high-rise rooms and sun protection.
Mobile ‘Bed Cube’ Bedroom
This Mobile Bed Cube bedroom is the perfect way to hang on to some privacy in a shared space. This unique “bedroom” is the perfect solution for people who live in shared bedrooms or dorms. You can move it around in any direction according to the space in your apartment. It is compact, and can easily fit into any room.The cube evolved out of wanting cozy with the option of keeping a big, open space at the same time.
S-house, Ukraine by KO+KO Architects
The starting plan was to create a holiday home for a young couple and their two children. The main challenge for KO+KO architects was to make transformation to the house using the most advanced technology construction, without losing the warmth and inside comfort, that's why they decided to create a wooden frame. Thus, there was a radical solution to create a concrete sarcophagus, on the facade resembling a Latin letter "S" hence the name of the house. The house is located on a long, narrow area, 35 meters wide and 65 meters in length, on a hill, facing east, ...
Cube Tube by Sako Architect
Developed by Sako Architects “Cube Tube” office and restaurant is a nine storey building with square structure, intersected with a vertical succession of criss-crossed corridors which terminate as open-air terraces overlooking the landscape. Contrasting the style of the existing context, a fenestration pattern of varied squares surfaces the main cubic volume and adjacent linear block, generating their respective names, “cube” and “tube”. The configuration introduces light and breezes into the internal core while allowing a divided working space with an airy atmosphere.
Magnus Long
Magnus Long was born in 1979. He studied furniture and Product Design at the Nothingham Trend University School of Art. During this time Magnus carried out a social and ergonomic study into how people really uses their clothes. The study resulted in 3 major projects: a transparent wardrobe, a clothes rack and a shoe shelve.
Magnus concepts consider the individual and how we would like to do things. He evolves and refines the idea into a design for manufacture using simple, elegant forms to create beautiful, stimulating objects.
Mansion Chandelier By Eric Ginder
Eric Ginder‘s studio was founded in the fall of 2004 with the conception of the ghost collection, a series of objects created entirely by hand from solid cast resin. Before focusing on a career in design, he studied at Chicago’s Art Institute and worked as a production artist in advertising. Now his studio focuses on crafted pieces that attempt to blur the line between art and design, like this chandelier which is made of laser-cut aluminum construction and halogen-bulb lamps. It’s s an original aerial spirit of ghost.
The Legend Of Zelda Pixel Blocks
To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo, in cooperation with The King of Games, is producing fabulous Zelda collectibles that will make any kid who grew up with Link drop a tear of joy. Yeah, I am one of these (grown up) kids. Hyrule rules!
Torre Combi Center Container By Joe Colombo
Joe colombo is one of Italy’s most influential product designers. After experiences in various art fields, from informal painting to furnishings, he devoted himself to industrial design and to a mass-production by experimenting new materials and advanced technologies since 1963.
The system of cylindrical elements diversely equipped and arranged into free-standing furniture containers of varying heights which rotate one on top of the other. It was presented in its various versions as a hobby container at the XIII Triennale in 1964, where it won the silver medal. It was used as a book display stand in the publishing section of the XIV Triennale. New versions are now in production: a TV and video recorder, set trolley,desk computer and printer trolley especially for home work.
Tropical House By Jean Prouve
Jean Prouve, one of the great designers of this century, was trained as an ornamental ironworker in Nancy. In 1930 he achieved an innovative breakthrough, producing a plastic and technical form oriented to industrial practice and went on to become the progressive partner of significant architects and charismatic furniture designers.
Prouve designed the Tropical House in 1949 as a prototype for inexpensive, readily assembled housing that could be easily transported to France’s African colonies. Fabricated in Prouve’s French workshops, the components for the house were completed in 1951 and were flown disassembled to Africa in the cargo hold of an airplane. The house was erected in the town of Brazzaville, Congo, where it remained for nearly 50 years.
Sake Set By Morgan Levine
Morgan Levine devised forms in pillow-shaped ceramic.A crushed plaster-filled bag served as the mold for the sake bottle which also provide a nest for two ceramic cups. The culturally constructed boundaries of Sake drinking with this fabulous white pillow ceramic sake set will bring curiosity around your table.
Receptionist Robot By Hello Kitty
PeopleStaff, an employment agency in Japan, is adding robots to its usual roster of people. The agency will dispatch Hello Kitty Robot, a robotic receptionist capable of sensing a visitor’s presence, greeting him or her and holding simple conversations.
The Nagoya-based agency is also offering the services of Ifbot, an elderly-care robot that chats and poses riddles and arithmetical problems to train the brain and help avoid dementia.
The Memphis Collective
Memphis was a Milan-based collective of young furniture and product designers led by the veteran Ettore Sottsass. After its 1981 debut, Memphis dominated the early 1980s design scene with its post-modernist style.This really original porcelain fruitbowl’s has been designed by Matteo Thun for Memphis. Matteo was born in 1952 in bolzano/alto adige, he studied under oskar kokoschka at the salzburg academy. in 1975 he was awarded his phd in architecture at the university of Florence, Italy. In collaboration with Ettore Sottsass he grounded the Sottsass Associati and the Memphis design group in 1981.
Wax Desk by Frank Lloyd & Wright Johnson
Designed in 1936 for the S.C. Johnson Wax Company, this iconoclastic desk and chair still satisfy the needs of that person looking for a functioning work of art to place in their home or workplace. Brick-red metal frame with natural cherry wood accent top and arms. A pendaflex file drawer, waste-basket, and accompanying file rack complete this state of the art design.
Cassina is the exclusive licensed and authorized manufacturer of Frank Lloyd Wright designs worldwide. Every item in the Cassina Wright Collection bears the signature of the designer and a serial number. The serial number indicates the exact date of production and allows the article to be matched with its Identity Card. This item is available for 10 day Quick-Ship.
Comforters By Reality Bedding
Let’s go to sleep in a sexy bed, pretty girls are waiting for you to have a really exciting night. Reality bedding uses a revolutionary new printing technology that makes the image come alive! Sharp and lifelike, it just leaps off the surface of the fabric.
The Strokes – First Impressions Of Earth
We’re big fans of The Strokes at Cubeme so we were very excited to get our hands on The Strokes’ third album, First Impressions of Earth. All I can say is that it lives up to expectations. This album shows maturity, diversity, and you can actually hear Julian Casablancas’ voice. I was impressed by the deepness of “Ize Of The World” and the infectious pop anthem “You Only Live Once”. It’s probably one of the rock best albums of 2006.
Sky Gnome Media Streamer
Gnome offers 80 digital radio stations, audio-led TV like Soccer AM, CNN and MTV, and recorded content stored on your Sky+ box. Is a funky way to listen your favourite digital satellite TV and radio around the home.
Psychosis Shower Curtain
The “Psychosis” water-repellent shower curtain is a white curtain that comes with a design of an old woman with a knife in her hand, remembering Hitchcock’ s movie. Grrr!!!
Fill My Room
Another day and another clone of The Million Dollar Homepage sees the light of day. Now some guy wants us to become part of the internet history by helping him fill his room from floor to ceiling. Different levels of sponsorship are available and an updated screenshot of the room can be seen on the homepage of Fill My Room!
Freud Mouserug
The Freud mouse rug is undoubtedly the world’s most finest computer mousing product. The design for this functional mouse rug has been adapted from an original rug that covers the most famous piece of furniture in the world, Dr. Freud’s Psychoanalytic couch. A brilliantly coloured rug. Other mouse rugs available.
Australian Prefab By Andrew Maynard
I’ve been very excited by the modern prefab housing industry for some time now. The best designs and concepts I’ve seen lately come from an Australian designer, Andrew Maynard. He thinks that the production scheme of modern housing has to mimic the car industry. For him, prefab houses have to be well designed but also provide cheap housing. Maynard’s work makes the future look like a very nice place to live.
TerraVision
TerraVision is a self-contained, virtual reality, 1-to-1 representation of our Earth. By means of a stylised globe users can zoom in on any location in the world and obtain minutely detailed pictures.The system offers not only satellite images and aerial photos but also geographically referenced data of all types – e.g. topographical or architectural schematic representations. It was conceived as a tool to generate knowledge about the condition and future development of our planet. The display and the resolution were only limited by the quality of the satellite aerial images of the corresponding location.
(via We-Make-Money-Not-Art)
Optimus Keyboard
The Optimus Keyboard is the coolest computer device I’ve ever seen. It uses OLED technology, so it means that every key of the keyboard is a stand-alone display showing exactly what it is controlling at this very moment. It’s also multilingual and it’s good for any layouts: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, mathematical functions. I can’t wait to lay my fingers on this keyboard!
