Milk crates

Text from http://mathieugallois.com/diy_8.html

Light weight, strong, stackable and easily modified, the iconic milk crate – the starting point of so much DIY stuff! Used universally as a seat in the street, a handy container – and a thousand other users; the milk crate in Australia is the object that comes closest to transcending notions of individual or corporate ownership (in the eyes of most, but perhaps not milk distributors).
The generic milk crate 'belongs' to a fluid zone reminiscent of the White Bicycle Plan started in the 1960s by Luud Schimmelpenninck in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This so-called White Bicycle Plan was possibly the first large-scale community bicycle program. It provided free bicycles that were supposed to be used for one trip and then left for someone else.



Below picture from http://www.freshbump.com/featured/special-features/25-innovative-re-purposed-home-fittings-designs/

Cheeky can

Lol.. funny.
http://www.markushofer.at/html/arbeiten/markus-hofer-geeignetzurzucht.html

Lego rings

Goodness, Lego rings! I want!
http://www.edition-mathea.de/english/lifestyle-sites/nops/01_nops1er.html

Type the Sky

The site isn't in English so I have no idea what is being written, but I love the shots.
http://www.slanted.de/eintrag/type-sky

Design for Poverty Competition Winner

http://dustbowl.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/design-for-poverty-competition-winner/

Kanera sink

Anyone can translate the page for me? It's in Greek. Or Korean. Or Manadarin.

Either way I can't read it.Sensual, no?

http://www.hi-id.com/?p=2225

Floating Chain Wine Bottle Holder

http://www.gadgetspy.co.uk/gadgets/floating-chain-wine-bottle-holder/1534

Coolest pencils.

A S Batle Company - Sculptor Anelio Batle makes these unusual implements that are equally an object of art and a functional drawing/writing tool. Each Graphite Object is meticulously hand-crafted in his San Francisco studio.


First, he carves an original design in clay. With intense pressure, carbonaceous graphite (same material in pencils) and smudge-resistant compounds are fused into a reproducible form using a proprietary technique that Batle invented. Finally using delicate carving and traditional finishing techniques, the Graphite Object is completed. All their surfaces can draw and the graphite will resist smudging onto your hand. With daily use these Graphite Objects should last 7 to 9 years. Perfect for gift giving, each Graphite Object is beautifully packaged with signed literature and a custom box.


Links:
http://sattvagallery.com/graphite-objects.html
http://www.wildlifewonders.com/asbatle.html#paging

Cool designs

What if there was an instrument which would change the world into something that we find strange? And better, what if this instrument can also change it back?

I worked with the refraction of light as a basic principal for a new form language. I designed a different world, a strange world. In this world there still is a possibility to go back to the world we know.

With the instrument it is possible to reshape objects, spaces and architecture. Designer: Nathan Wierink (Netherlands)
Manufacturer: own atelier (Netherlands)

A red table that seems to flow down on the ground.

Designer: John Nouanesing (France)