Showing posts with label materials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label materials. Show all posts

28 Feb 2013

Natascha Harra-Frischkorn's "Chuck" Wall Shelf


This is most definitely my favourite find of this week by far, a super flexible shelving unit by German designer Natascha Harra-Frischkorn. Entitled "Chuck", the shelving is made from 4mm thick wood floor paneling and can be adjusted to hold variable sized books and anything else you can fit within the constraints. It's freaking beautiful if you ask me, the fact that you have the main say in how you want it to look each day is just genius. It also reminds me of the Comedy Store logo, nice.

The phrase, "Why didn't I think of that" comes to mind!

To see a video of the Chuck in action and see more of the designer's projects click here

16 Jun 2012

Snap - Thomas St, Manchester

I took this shot in the Northern Quarter, Manchester a couple of weeks back. It's a street a walk down Thomas Street almost every week as a work around the corner, I'm usually in a mega rush so I don't tend to look around all that much. Me and Hollie (Did you see she won the Barcely's New Business Award at Graduate Fashion Week?!) travel down to Manchester for the day out maybe about once a month and we're always got our eyes peeled. 

This terrace is above a take away shop and squished between restaurants, pubs, shops and solicitors. What I liked about it is the amount of different textures and materials all going on in one tiny place, who knows how it's got like that but I hope they don't go fixing it.

Have a great weekend guys!

11 Jun 2012

Tomas Alonso's Desk Trays


Rubberised desk trays, we all want one right? Probably not, but if you were in the market for a super cool desk tidying solution I reckon you wouldn't go far wrong with these. Designed by Spanish craftsman Tomas Alonso for stationery experts Praxis, this projects toys with the relationship between squares and circles. I stumbled across Alsono's work online last week, the man has some serious skills and an eye for colour, shapes and materials. For anyone that's been to the Camper shop in Covent Garden in London or the store in Glasgow, he is the man behind the design.

All I need now is a desk like Jen's to put them on.

Image source and more of Tomas Alonso's work click here here