Randommization

Neon Skull Lights by artist Eric Franklin are one of those scary things that keeps you looking at them with rapt attention. You might be creeped out, but you somehow can’t bring yourself to look away from the spectacle. Or that’s how they put such things in a couple of not-so-good books I have read. [...]

Once PacMan is in one of his hunger runs, you don’t want to place anything you value near its mouth, least of all your hinds. Thankfully though, there’s no such cause of concern when it’s just a chair like the Pac Seat by Bruno Marques. At least not till some magic turns it sentient.

Gone are the good old days when you could keep humans as objects. You know, like the kind who stand in the background holding a lamp or serving their feudal lord without as much as being perceived or acknowledged. To those nostalgic for the old times, the Embarakiya lamps can provide some relief. Sadly they [...]

Trash incinerators are no place for fun; except if you are in Copenhagen because the brand new incinerator coming up there has room enough for a ski slope. It is going to be fun, because not many ski slopes in the world can claim to have hot burning trash underneath them. We’re not sure how [...]

For the sake of extension of a house in Kagawa, Japan, architect Hironaka Ogawa had to make room by felling two trees. He then decided to use the same two trees as part of the decor of the house, giving it a very unusual yet charming look; although we’re sure the trees would disagree.

Het Arresthuis jail might not have been a most pleasant place for convicts who were sentenced and confined there, but the former jail has now been transformed into a hotel for those looking for novelty. Het Arresthuis jail started off in 1863 and was eventually closed in 2007, after which Dutch hotel group Van der [...]

A satirical look at the concept of DRM, this chair intends to show the absurdity of the idea. Called DRM Chair, the creation of students at Swiss university ECAL calculates the number of times it has been sat upon using a sensor, and when the counter reaches eight, it goes into self-destruct mode. Joints in [...]

Living someplace where it snows cats, dogs, donkeys and elephants, it might sometimes be necessary to create objects that are way different from the way most of the world sees things. Most countries wouldn’t bother with a heated bridge, there’s practically no use. But in snowy Sweden, architecture firm Erik Andersson Architects created a heated [...]

At the very base of German design studio Böwer‘s Wooden Carpet is a sheet of durable textile. On this sheet are arranged wooden pellets and tiles in a way that they are independent of each other, yet work together for form and function. Owing to this arrangement, the carpet can be laid flat on a [...]

Russian designer Vadimm Kibardin‘s levitating wireless mouse seeks to address the problem of issues like carpal tunnel syndrome that can plague those who use the mouse constantly and continuously. It does so in the fashion of levitating that we all can admire.

Russia’s president Vladimir Putin wasn’t quite happy seeing the administration move around in BMW and Mercedes cars, therefore he asked Russia’s automakers to come up with a car suited for him. Russian automaker Zil came up with a concept in the shape of Zil-4112P (pictured at top), but it didn’t find favor with the president.

Chocolate lamp by Alexander Lervik is built up on the concept of light versus dark, which we thinks works very well with the mix of an electric bulb covered in a lamp shade of chocolate. It’s a light that gives no light at all, until the heat from the bulb starts to thaw the chocolate [...]

Convertible Sofa from Julia Kononenko goes the road to transforming furniture with a number of transformations under its belt. It lives its life as a sofa with a wooden casing with multi-colored cushions, but can as easily transform into a dining table with six chairs.

Sitting quietly in the solitude afforded to it by San Juan Islands of Washington, this house does what most houses couldn’t even dream of. Shadowboxx house from architecture firm Olson Kundig can well employ its ability of transformation to very well change its look. It can morph to different shapes depending on the requirements of [...]

It is said the Mandala is the representation of the entire universe, and it is quite fitting that it should have books in it.