When we stopped to ponder the legless back and seat of a ubiquitous faux Eames polycarbomate chair we found on the street, we suddenly realized the influence designer Martino Gamper had on our thinking, whose clever 100 Chairs in 100 Days inspire completely novel iterations.
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Design student Nicole Pannuzzo created this clever origami-inspired toothpaste packaging concept that collapses, accordion-like, as the toothpaste is used. We’d LOVE to walk into the bathroom and see that practical little sculpture. But what we love best was Pannuzzo’s window into the design process, with the many attempts it took to get it right:
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When we stumbled on this image, we had to look twice to see what was so clever about the use of a classic white Venetian blind. Had the blind been hung inside the doorway, it would have had a very ordinary effect; and the blind’s boxy top mechanism would have obstructed the lines of the…
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