Design

[6 Sep 2010 | No Comment | ]
Book sculptures

Inspired by artists like Nicholas Jones I recently caught up with book sculptures. Transforming old, never read again books to every day recognised eye catchers thereby is far more than a recreation act. Flipping through a book, that wont be read anymore, next to recognising book structues,  is a somehow special moment. But then the restructuring starts. By transforming page by page the book slitely becomes an sculpture. The meaning of letters is immolated for the composition of pages.
However the work requires some notable steps:

Buy a old used book that …

DIY, Design, Featured
[6 Sep 2010 | No Comment | ]
Alternative sitting

I usually spend a several hours per days on my computers. Since I’m kanooing  I have no back problems, but still sitting hour by hour in a traditional office chair feels uncomfortable after a while. Recently Google just bypassed me an adverticement for a barstool called Stitz, which I decided to investigate a little deeper. The Stitz is produced by a german company called Wilkhahn and is an unusual height adjustable barstool and was develobed by Hans Roericht.
With Stitz Hans increases the movement freedom of its user by several axis.
I …

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[19 Aug 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
An invisible tea stand / bock shelf

I recently extended my spectrum of fitments by 2 solid hammock hooks, just to be prepared for the colder seasons. They fit comfortable into the surroundments. While relaxing hanging around I figured out, that I was missing something – my tea, or better said a place to put it next to my hammock. Since the hammock is occasionaly in place I was looking for a solution which does not attrackt to much attention and remembered an old book (another building story) given by my workmate Stefan and caught up the …

DIY, Design