All posts tagged desk

Transform: A Shape Changing Desk

You may have seen videos of this adaptive tech straight out of MIT earlier, showing it manipulating a ball. Check out this video latest video for Transform, utilizing the same tech in an adaptive shape changing desk.

‘I think there’s a lot of space for designers to expand beyond the producer/client model and become knowledge makers, cultural disruptors and gatekeepers between pure economic gain and the well-being of humanity,’

says graduate student and researcher at MIT Media Lab Viirj Kan.

Taking the idea behind inFORM one step further, the MIT team has created a responsive table containing three highly inventive dynamic shape displays. The arrangement consists of more than a thousand mobile pins that are sensitive to changes in kinetic energy of the surroundings.

Source

Leave a comment

by katiekhau on December 11, 2015 • Permalink

Posted in Articles

Tagged adaptive technology, desk, furniture design, industrial design, inForm, MIT, product design, tech, technology, Transform

Posted by katiekhau on December 11, 2015

https://katiekhau.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/transform-a-shape-changing-desk/

Energy-Producing Workspace BY Eddi Törnberg

The thesis project of Swedish student Eddi Törnberg heads in a direction that should be noted. Unplugged is an office that facilitates producing the energy needed to run all of our office electronics through doing everyday activities

Based on the quote “Human nature is above all things lazy” by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Törnberg’s thesis came from the belief that society as a whole lacks “the will, interest and energy to struggle to achieve a sustainable society.” So instead, Törnberg created a way around it by deriving energy from things we already do and, since we spend so much of our time working, it’s kind of brilliant.

In Unplugged, there are three techniques used to produce energy: piezoelectricity from the carpet, the chair utilizing the Seebeck effect, and the flower through photosynthesis. (more…)

Leave a comment

by katiekhau on June 28, 2012 • Permalink

Posted in Articles

Tagged desk, eco desk, Eddi Tornberg, energy, finally implemented page breaks, photosynthesis, piezoelectricity, unplugged, workspace

Posted by katiekhau on June 28, 2012

https://katiekhau.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/energy-producing-workspace-by-eddi-tornberg/

Desks For Doodlers

If you are anything like me, you’re some one who likes to doodle. You loved to draw on the desks in school or when given crayons at a restaurant you like draw on the placemat. If so then you’ll love these two desk designs.

Above is a desk designed by Miguel Mestre where you can scribble all day long. The desk holds 100x70cm blank paper. No more random post-its everywhere!

However if you cant part from your post-it notes this next desk will definitely be a delight.

Above is the POST-ITable by Soup Design

As an industrial design student, I’m always scrambling around for paper to scrawl my notes, ideas or sketches down. I find that these tables solve that problem and keep my train of thought flowing without disruption. I like the sound of a uninterrupted ideation process.

Source for first table

Source for POST-ITable

Leave a comment

by katiekhau on June 10, 2012 • Permalink

Posted in Articles

Tagged design, design process, desk, doodle, draw, flowing train of thought, furniture design, ideation, industrial design, post-it, POST-ITable, writing on desk

Posted by katiekhau on June 10, 2012

https://katiekhau.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/desks-for-doodlers/

“My Writing Desk” by Inesa Malafej

Her ‘my writing desk’ is a workspace which has been designed to reduce difficulties of working in a mess. I need this desk with the amount of sketches and notes that I have on my desk. I think this desks would be perfect for any designer.

A storage trough is organized around three sides of the table top, where things may be placed off the main writing surface, but still in sight and easily accessible. The desktop can be utilized right up to its edges without worrying that things may fall down, and unnecessary objects can simply be pushed to the storage sides. the high edges of the desk isolates within the room in which it stands. The wings are divided for simple construction, leaving a path for the wires. There are two drawers for a laptop and writing equipment. The legs of the table can be twisted off for easier transportation.