It’s OKAY to play with your food
Invited to create 12 unique table centers for the Designs of Year exhibition awards ceremony at the Design Museum London, OKAY studio and friends decided that the guests could benefit from a little light hearted dinner time foolishness.
Each table center plays or encourages the guests to play with their food (hurling it across the room at the other guests, piling it up in the middle of the table, wearing it on their heads…). The 12 of a kind table centers reflect a playfulness with typologies that is at the same time both familiar yet unexpected.
The seats are made out of big sheets of pattern paper or wallpaper, filled with expanded polyurethane foam. The folded structure acts as a mould and as an "upholstery"; after being shaped the empty paper chair is steady enough to hold its form and enable polyurethane casting.
This surprising cabinet is ideally suited to storing small items and everyday necessities in order to make sure these are always in the same place. Very useful during morning rush hour at home!
In production by Arco
Usually a chest of drawers consists of an exterior frame, back panel and runners on each drawer. The height is limited to the size of the frame and the drawer can only be opened in one direction. With ‘Stack’ Shay Alkalay has questioned these elements and challenged our perception of what a drawer unit can be.
These individual, multi-coloured, ‘floating’ drawer units are built up to different heights, creating a tower of drawers that can be pushed and pulled in both directions. This will often result in a random and irregular formality that is both fascinating and unusual to the eye.
Positioned against a wall or in the centre of a room ‘Stack’ creates a rich and wonderful spectacle of colour and form. It can be appreciated from all angles as a sculptural object as well as an entirely functional, practical item of furniture.
‘Stack’ is offered in two standard sizes together with two multi-colour variants.
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The evacuation skirt was done just after the storm in New Orleans.
The skirt keeps its glamorous look when it's deflated on the one hand, and on the other it inflates into a kayak with the right amount of volume to carry a grown up woman. I wanted to raise the question of emergency and beauty and to explore whether they can meet each other.
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Attachez
simple runner attachments that
allow a drawer to be added to any flat surface.
The Head Hand Bag enables its (females) users to experience a sense of victory without the need for violent action. This project explores the ability to translate an object into a story and a story into a product. The biblical story about Judith and Holofernes and its visual representation from the Renaissance were inspiration for the design of the bag.
Imagine a place where objects are moving, responding to gravity, turning upside-down and continually changing their position so as to remain parallel to the Earth. Imagine a space where furniture is fixed to the wall and once needed you simply bring it to you.
'A day in a life' is a spatial design project that deals with living in this different condition. The floor has been transformed into a spinning wall.
These three different milk cartons distinguish between the rates of fat in the milk by using form rather then colour. The form of the milk cartons reflects in a way on the milk’s texture and smoothness. The two back folds are used as the carton's handle, while the two in the front function as the spout.
The project 'Milk Cartons' was a winner of the British Council annual student competition and was taken to Milan for the exhibition 'Talented: Graduates 2006'. It was also published in the 'International Design Year Book 2007' edited by Patricia Urquiola.
A Giant wall mounted revolving fish bowl allows your dearest pet to travel the polluted ocean from the comfort of his own home.
The rocking slippers are a hybrid of a domestic shoes and a small rocking stool, they developed under the title of "body extension", where a wearable item gets almost to the territory of independent product.
Employing a gravitational swivel movement, this wardrobe suggests a new way to store our clothes. It uses space both vertically and horizontally, efficiently storing the contents when closed and conveniently displaying the garments for maximum accessibility when open.
This is a collapsible fruit bowl, which adjusts itself to the amount of fruit you have in it every day of the week. The springy qualities of the fruit bowl enable it to change its mode: from package mode which has a small volume to the big volume mode which can contain a great amount of fruits
A simple employee at the council rubbish disposal services had a peculiar imagination: he could see teddy bears in every object he observed. As a child he would stare at the clouds imagining that he could see teddy bears in the sky… and today...everywhere, even the black bin bags looked like teddy bears to him.
No one at work could stand his excited cries every time he shouted 'look at that bear...look at that one...don't throw it into the garbage crusher… nooooo!..'
Of course he was fired from his job, lost his family and friends and became homeless. Yet even though many people thought he was strange, none of them would admit that they too saw the teddy bear bin bags dumped around the streets of London.
Iron-On stickers that turn unsightly stains into attractive doodles. An alternative way to prolong the life of stained clothes.
A postcard sized sheet that would be enough to rescue at least 4 different stains.