Christine Birkhoven is an industrial designer, who’s passion for design is focused on the conception of useful products, developing practical products with strict ergonomic criteria to obtain genuine customer satisfaction with regards to form, texture, and color.
Christine´s skills cover conceptual work, 3D visualisation and modelling. Her strength is the ability to work in a team to meet the high demands of the client and market.
The concept for the “Good Night Eileen” lamp is based on the archaic hand torch, which was used at home in order to lighten your way through the dark from one room to another.
The expanding table shown here is the result of many years of modern development, but also follows a line of history of more than one and a half centuries. This, the Fletcher Capstan Table, is unique.
It is a round table, which at the press of a button, amazingly doubles its seating capacity and, just as astonishingly, remains truly circular. Very importantly it stores its expansion leaves within itself.
Alessandro Bêda, from Portugal is an industrial designer who has created the project “Whale Vase“. His idea is interesting, he designed a two-piece flower vase in the shape of a whale, so technically the vase can be as long as you want. The flowers are placed in the so called “blow hole” of the whale, so he replaced the water burst with colorful flowers.
It is no small wonder that Nori Morimoto uses wood as his template in the expression of his artistry. Morimoto means “on the edge of the woods.” Perhaps a painter might trap the elements in the flat of a canvas, but Nori’s wall sculptures tame the elements in three-dimensional form. His carpenter beginnings lead him to make furniture as art and then art as furniture, and the evolution continues. Whether he is cutting, planing, carving, sandblasting, burning, or pressing his native wood, Nori looks to redefine his understanding of nature, the raw force at odds with the terrible beauty of a striving humankind. Nori is on the edge of the woods, looking out to us and bringing us the secret of the forest.
The first picture in this gallery describes a football(soccer) themed bean bag, not only comfortable but also stylish and easily cleanable. Photo Source: EverythingFurniture.
Sticking to the football(soccer) inspired design, here is another candidate that mainly puts accent on building the chair by using the main attraction of football: the game BALL. Despite the fact that at first sight the chair doesn’t seem very comfortable, you might be surprised. Photo Source: MrGadget.