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CHRONO by Simonas Milišauskas

toma — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:16:04 +0000

“If I could give up my time back, I would have acted differently. Unfortunately, you will not be wasting time, but it is also meaningless when you cannot partially recover what is lost.” – says young designer created CHRONO concept.

Design by Simonas Milišauskas | Lithuania

Table cloth by march

toma — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 11:41:32 +0000

Do you love white and tidy tableclothes
like in Italian trattorias? But hate the idea of ironing them? We do too. So we made iron- free tablecloth!

The paper-cloth is washable and almost impossible to tear apart. After use just put the tablecloth into the washing machine and re-use it straight away because it dries instantly!

Design by march / Lithuania

Writable T-shirt by march

toma — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:19:59 +0000

Take a piece of chalk and write your message on a “Cotton Twitter” T-shirt. Want a new message? Simply throw the T-shirt into the washing machine.

Design by march / Lithuania

Awesome modular sandals by Dooq

toma — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 20:33:30 +0000

Dooq are modular sandals, which you can customize so that they perfectly suit your style and mood. Dooq will make your summer even more colorful and stylish. These sandals are ideal for summer travels because they take up a little space. Made by hands and from high quality materials. These sandals are the only pair of shoes that you need for a colorful summer.

Dooq sandals are made of interchangable parts, which can be combined with each other. You will be a designer of your own unique pair of sandals. And when you get tired of them – quickly and easily redesign. You will be surprised how easy it is!

Design by Dooq (Sergi Dominguezas Fontas, Rasa Pekarskaitė ir Vismantas Kasteckas) / Lithuania
BUY NOW: 59,00 €

A paperclip holder by Arthur Xin

toma — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 19:50:49 +0000

Introducing, Ostrich! Never before has a paperclip holder been so awesome. The magnetic silhouette takes on the familiar form of the world’s biggest bird. Beautiful on its own, the shiny metallic finish and funky red “sneakers” make it an interesting desktop ornament. Add on the included black paperclips, however, and you’ve got something entirely new! If I had this functional decor on my desk, I doubt I’d get anything done.

Design by Arthur Xin

Corallo door handle by NJ Interiors

toma — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 19:33:20 +0000

Corallo Red handle is a door handle, this luxury handle is an actual sculpture, NJ interiors is specialized in design door hardware. The fruit of a study on the deepest coral reefs, this handle features a truly unique shape.
The peculiarity of this handle is its visual and tactile experience, as well as its red finish, a touch of luxury that does not go unnoticed and fits perfectly in any environment.
Corallo colored handle is made of brass by lost wax casting, in collaboration with the industry’s best craftsmen.

Design by NJ Interiors / Italy

BUY NOW: 515,00€

Magnetic mirror by march

toma — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 11:10:37 +0000

A mirror + a magnet: it will hold your keys, coins and other metal objects. Place this mirror on a wall next to your door and never forget your important stuff at home.

Design by march / Lithuania

Linen Bedding by Sand Snow

toma — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 10:55:03 +0000

Pure and natural linens. Breath of nature in your home.

Our natural linen bedding set will enrapture you with simple forms, clear colors, extreme comfort, quality and a breath of nature in your home. This handmade item is long lasting, nature-friendly and looks better and better with age and every wash. Natural softened linens will warm you up in winter and cool in summer.

by Sand Snow / Lithuania

BUY NOW: £131.22

The blend watch uses color theory to tell the time by Aruliden

toma — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 07:27:24 +0000

Taking the watch and mildly altering one small yet crucial detail, Rinat Aruh and Johan Liden designed the Blend Watch… a watch without traditional hands, but with a design detail that creates the perception of them. The Blend uses the subtractive color model to create color compositions that tell time. The subtractive color model is basically how we get all our pigments (for example cyan + magenta + yellow = black), and the Blend uses it rather inventively to create blocks of color. Instead of relying on two hands to tell the time, the Blend uses two sheets of tinted transparent plastic with hands cut out of them. When placed over a white watch face, the layered sheets showcase a combined color, while the hands appear as the individual colors that were used to begin with. With each passing hour, the watch face creates colorful compositions that get really interesting especially when the two hands align, to reveal the white dial underneath!

Design by Aruliden

BUY NOW: $157.50

The one finger safety cutter by Version 22

toma — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 18:57:36 +0000

Our generation is so used to swiping at things that it only seems natural that something like the Nimble Cutter would exist! Cleverly named, the Nimble is a thimble that sits on your finger, but instead of preventing needle pricks, this little bad-boy comes with a blade that’s capable of being the best cutter you’ll ever own. Convenient in its design, the Nimble’s silicone cap shape allows it to comfortably rest on any finger. A tiny blade on the tip lets you simply slide across surfaces you want to cut, be it paper, tape, clingfilm, etc. The blade’s small enough to slice through packaging, but too small to actually cut skin, which means the most the Nimble will do is poke you a tiny bit.

Perfect for the upcoming festive season (what with all the unboxing you’ll have to do), the Nimble takes a natural gesture, something we pretty much do all day on our touchscreens, and converts it into something useful, so you can ditch those harmful boxcutters and deadly knives!

Design by Version 22

BUY NOW: £9.39

by Paul Rand

toma — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 18:39:08 +0000

“Design is so simple, that’s why it’s so complicated.” – Paul Rand

Reissue of Humanscale by Henry Dreyfuss Associates

toma — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:38:27 +0000

A majority of the occupations we humans carry out are human-centric… and almost everything designers do revolves around human interaction and emotion; and while most products we design today have evolved from physical to digital, there’s always one key binding factor. The user… and the user hasn’t physically changed much (or even at all) in the past century, and probably won’t for the foreseeable future. Because design as a practice inhibits human evolution i.e., it changes circumstances so that we, without changing the way we are, can achieve the great feats.

Back in the 70s, Henry Dreyfuss (the designer of the iconic circular Honeywell thermostat that inspired the Nest) realized the importance of human ergonomic data in designing for humans. He then embarked on a mission to capture human proportions at a scale never done before. The result? A definitive guide to human anthropometry, for both men and women of all ages, sizes, and walks of life. This data (more than 60,000 pieces of information) found its way into the original Humanscale book, printed from the 70s to the 80s. They changed the face of Industrial Design, ushering in the age of human-centric design (probably the only way to design good products). However, the MIT Press stopped printing these guides in the 80s, and they became collectibles and antiques, rather than becoming a staple in every designer’s collection. We clearly see the lack of incorporating human factors into designs today, with the most talked-about example being the smartphone, that chose to grow bigger, while human hands remained the same size. There’s a reason people still strongly feel the iPhone 5 was the best smartphone to use and handle.

Chancing upon one of the last prints of the Humanscale from the 90s, the designers at IA Collaborative decided to pitch a reprint of these manuals that contained data so exhaustive, nothing close to a manual this detailed has ever been printed since. “The applications are almost endless,” says Westra, IA’s design engineering lead. “We use them for everything from medical devices to appliances to sporting goods to watches to consumer electronics.”

The reprints will be exact copies of the original featuring the same data (which hasn’t changed since). Bundled into 3 books and 9 beautiful selector charts that lay out data with the simple rotation of a wheel (in a way these books and charts were designed keeping in mind the very factors they contain), these reprints will be available at a mere fraction of the cost of the originals (which you can find for roughly $2,000 on Ebay). The series of books and charts can be bought independently for $79 or in a complete collection for just $199.

The reprints of the Humanscale base themselves completely on the original, using the same printing material and quality, and retaining more than 60,000 pieces of data measured out in the 70s. Perfect for industrial design, interior design, transportation, and almost any design field that bases itself on human proportions (yes, app design too), the Humanscale is a must-have in every designer’s collection of books, not to mention design studios and schools. IA Collaborative aims to digitize the data too in a way that’s just as easy and accessible as opening a book or rotating a selector chart wheel. Their aim is to make the information accessible to designer practitioners, learners, and educators world-wide… because the best designs consider the people who are using them.

Design by Henry Dreyfuss Associates
BUY NOW: $199.00

Onliu cup by Vini Rhee

toma — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 20:24:19 +0000

The Onliu cup and saucer set are in love! They literally need each other. With a stem on the saucer and cavity on the cup, it’s designed so that neither works without the other. At first glance it seems a little nonsensical, but its clever design also makes it super-spillproof!

Design by Vini Rhee

The future is not written by Alex Gifreu & Pere Álvaro

toma — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 20:03:41 +0000

“The future is not written” Alex Gifreu and Pere Álvaro.

Frop by Paul Ketz

toma — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:03:26 +0000

“Remarkable combination of form and function – frop is flat like a CD, opens like a book, and cracks nuts with force and speed.”

Inspired by children with slingshots and cap guns, this frog-green helper cracks nuts and, in the process, makes a sound just like its name – frop. Without the mess of flying shells for a lot of fun.

Designer Paul Ketz | Istambul (TR)