Fire safety is an essential aspect of any home and you will hardly imagine a residence or workplace without a fire extinguisher. Yet very few of us are ready for fires and taught to use a fire extinguisher. By prioritizing ease of use, accessibility, and aesthetics, contemporary product designers transform the traditional fire extinguisher into an easy-to-use device and an indispensable element of modern living spaces.
As the story goes, around 800 AD, an alchemist in China mixed sulfur, charcoal, and a food preservative hoping to find the secret to eternal life. Instead, the mixture caught on fire, and gunpowder was born. When the powder was packed into bamboo tubes and lit on fire, history had its first fireworks. Today, artists uses fireworks as an art medium creating artworks right in the sky.
Who needs screws and glue if there are so many intriguing new ways of constructing furniture. We have selected some more examples of recent innovative joinery methods.
As parents, we are always seeking the best for our children at every moment of their lives. These designs offer not just a safe and comfortable cradle, but multifunctional pieces ensuring that every stage of your baby’s growth is met with excitement and comfort.
By taking the form of escalating shelves and winding bookcases, these homes step into a unique dimension. Seamlessly integrated into the home environments, these bookshelves alter the traditional library experience.
In the history of wood working, an object’s value has often been determined by, among other things, the way its constituent elements have come together. However, contemporary furniture designers develop intriguing new ways of constructing furniture.
What makes a good parking lot? Is it accessibility, user-friendly design or safety and security provisions? These bespoke car park projects epitomize smart multifunctional design that adds to the city’s infrastructure.
Parking garages are often seen as the antithesis of people-friendly urban planning. However, in the context of densification and reasonable use of raw materials, they too need to be re-thought. These projects combine the utilitarian structure set to accommodate cars with unique spaces that would reduce congestion, address density and provide a healthy and invigorating environment for city dwellers.
Smartphones are used to make phone calls and send text messages but they can also be used for checking your emails and searching the internet. Today, people rely on smartphones to take pictures, wake them up in the morning and manage their appointments. Calculator, GPS navigation, flashlight, document scanner – and that is not all. Product designers offer amazing tools that turn smartphones into the true ‘Swiss Army knife’ of technology.
At their most basic, roofs are a cover to protect a building against the weather. While simple flat roofs are common, bespoke sculptural roofs turn buildings into landmarks often taking advantage of the picturesque settings they are set in.
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