ziplocked flatpack chair

zipit is a unique “do it yourself” chair by viktormatic based on a kit of wood modules, cardboard seat and backrest cushions, to be easily built up and disassembled only with zip ties connections.

“A new undefined human personality needs in my mind objects that own a variable adjusting and transformable character. thereby i developed this kit based chair whose connections are fixed with adjustable zip-ties. because of these uneasy connections, this chair tends to be loose and wobbly, but this is part of “a new way of sitting” idea.”
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Flat Pack Furniture with Danish Influence

The Fundament Lounge by Acronym Designs is a pack flat lounger that was inspired by some mid-century pieces where simple lines and a low slung stance. The oak use for this piece is reclaimed and is currently being sourced from a company that makes tractor trailer beds. They have immense amounts of cut off waste that is too small for their purposes, but suits furniture design. Instead of this wood going to the landfill or being burned, it is converted it into functional and attractive furniture making it a sustainable design.
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Fun Anamorphic furniture designs by Oscar Núñez of Cancun Mexico.

With Oscar Núñez’s playful Fill In The Cat, three characters disappear from large, solid white blocks, and their absence suddenly makes them important. The resulting emptiness is filled with the user’s belongings and through this action the silhouettes’ meaning shifts. The pieces suggest a continuous play between interaction and representation, where daily use generates a continuously changing story: a cat that reads Italo Calvino, a book filled with coins, a living room where birds come to eat the cake’s crumbles…

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CNC Magic by Stanislav Katz

Not much information out there on the work of Latvian designers Katz except for some great pictures on the process of making the 4 Vase Cabinet posted on the Contemporist.

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Rethinking furniture joinery with exposed mechanical fasteners.

German designer Philippe Krzyzek has just released some of his interesting furniture at the 2009 DMY Design Festival in Berlin. What instantly sprang to my attention was his exposed use of metal fasteners to hold what looks like CNC timber panels together. So often with flat pack furniture designs we see the peices slot together (which makes sense) but is becoming a little predictable, even when using digital joints (previously featured).
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Eco Design for Everyone

Knoend is a design innovation studio that believe that design is a catalyst for change and has the power to create new experiences that will bring enhanced meaning to life. Knoend’s company name was conceived to describe the limitless possibilities that knowledge can bring to the world.
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A furniture company that saves money and energy.

Whether you attended NeoCon physically or virtually this year, you probably noticed that Green/Eco/Sustainability was crucial. LEED certification has become both a badge of honor and a badge of cool in the world of architecture; so attendees were all looking for environmentally friendly products.

Davies Office Refurbishing started as an eco-conscious company in 1948—about sixty years before today’s Green Scene. As I inspected the giant wooden signs for laser-cutting burns and observed the rotating platforms at Davies booth, company President William Davies offered to give me a bit of background on his products and services.

(above: cool CNC table part of Davies display at NeoCon)

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Innovative use of CNC ‘digital joints’.

Panels 02 & 03 by Paris based sebastien wierinck will be shown at salone Satellite with the 101pct Designed in Brussels selection. The interesting thing about this work that sets it apart from much of the flat pack furniture in the field is the use of CNC specific construction joints, rather than emulating standard joinery or basic slots.
As CNC cabinetry becomes more accessible we will see some otherwise impossible (or at least really really difficult) digital wood joints being shared on the web.
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Cavernous walls created using wood off-cuts collected in dumpsters, sidewalks and wastelands

French Architect Paul Coudamy previously mentioned on the Ponoko Blog by Kristen for his Cardboard Office has now turned his sustainable design eye to a new office space for beartech in Paris.
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Shape and colour of each product determined by the amount of sunlight available during manufacture.

Viennese designers Mischer’Traxler have taken the concepts of sustainable design, biomimicry and product customization and produced The Idea of a Tree.
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