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Author Archives: Troy Turner
Collecting Water in the Sky
Skydrops is a helium inflated balloon designed to collect water by harnessing Mother Nature’s own energy. Spinning in the wind creates energy used to cool metallic sheets with peltier cells within the balloon. As the air passes through the cooled sur… Continue reading
Posted in balloon, Product Design, water collection
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Unorthodox Joints and Locks
This unique hardware by designer Benjamin Parton provides a functionally simplistic and attractive way to join a variety of materials. The Escher Joint secures surfaces in an elegant tripodal arrangement and can be used in a combination of materials to… Continue reading
Perplexing Wall Clock
Using the same lenticular printing technology as many image-shifting postcards and “wiggle pictures,” the AM/PM Wall Clock by Studio Dreimann allows the viewer to read both AM and PM times by simply changing their viewing perspective. It may look l… Continue reading
This Lamp is Da Bomb!
This clever table lamp design by Luca Veneri offers an interesting,thought-provoking, and somewhat eerie way of lighting up a room. The mushroom cloud shape, that seems to expand before your eyes, was created using real fluid dynamic simulations to cap… Continue reading
Origami Shade
The Miura Ori screen is a lightweight, sturdy, and systematically textured window covering that utilizes the genius rigid origami Miura folding process to achieve it’s functional & elegant form. A Miura fold can be packed into an area no larger t… Continue reading
Posted in Interiors, Product Design, screen, Shade, window covering
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Bee Charmin’ Shelving
This modular shelving unit by Sam Holmes focuses on the use of a simplified metal connector to combine equally sized planks together to form it’s honeycomb compartments. The finished product is a geometrically efficient structure that uses the least … Continue reading
Posted in Furniture, Product Design, shelf, shelving, storage
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