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Design Blogfest Window Competition Finalists
Posted by Harry Announcements | 15 May 07 | Comments (9) | Stumble

The Design Blogfest bloggers have chosen their favorites for the Design Blogfest Window Competition, now it's your turn to vote for your favorite among the finalists. The voting will remain open until 11:47pm EST tomorrow. Here below are the finalists, photos and voting after the jump:

Cribcandy chose the Drawing Pod
I chose the drawing pod, because it solved a very simple problem that I encountered when i was an architect, but which anyone who has tried to extract a poster from a cardboard tube will relate to. Rolled up drawings tend to unwind and stick to the sides of tubes making them difficult to extract without tearing. The solution: make the tube tear-drop shaped, in section.

TreeHugger chose the Keyboard Waffle Maker
Chris Dimino's Keyboard Waffle Maker proves that a little whimsy and sense of fun is often critical to a recycled design's success. It just wouldn't be as interesting (or as green) if the typewriter's metal and plastic were melted down and turned into another forgettable appliance. The design also celebrates the typewriter's patina and imperfections instead of attempting to hide them, which I think is a growing movement away from iPod-like super-slickness in design as a whole.

Apartment Therapy chose The Bean Screen and Lettuce Coffee Table
These two designs stood out for the ambition of their design and practicality. As we move into the green age, designs like these will challenge the way we think about our interiors and our furnishings. These were beautiful and simple as pieces and inspired curiosity as we wanted to take one home and try it right away.

Curbed chose designblogfest_v1_window display
Simple. Something we've talked about doing at the Gawker HQ down the block. And solidifies the idea of this stretch of Crosby Street as Blog Alley for a night. Fun!

Both NOTCOT and Cool Hunting chose Pet Plus Series
Per NOTCOT; There's a playful style to her pieces that make you stop, pause, giggle, and then realize how fun it would be to gift someone with those. What puppy wouldn't want to be a part of the family and partake in some wine at the dining table (with a collared shirt and all)... or for the lonely ladies out there who want to "hold hands" as they walk the dog, there's the boyf leash.

MoCo Loco chose FLIRTSTATION
Design Blogfest is all about people connecting with other people by design, a concept embodied in Shannon South's FLIRTSTATION. "Two can share this bench that will naturally allow connection to occur by keeping one focused on the other through the window that connects yet separates them.".

Photos and voting after the jump...








Comments

This competition appears to be a little like an Oscar Night with "Citizen Kane" against "Rocky I, II, III and IV". Of course the Drawing Pod! (The keyboard Waffle maker would be Rocky I, because it's pretty good too. Mmmmmmm... Space Bar!)

ADK: The Bean Screen and Lettuce Coffee Table:
These elegant pieces are perfectly functional, deceptively simple and beautiful as sculptural design. I can easily picture them against the white wall of my living room. I want one of each!

I want a Bean Screen right now! I would also like an Ivy Curtain that can be raised and lowered in the windows.

The keyboard wafflemaker is fun and the bean screen is a neat idea...
but the Drawing Pod is a truly useful object that could become ubiquitous... kind of like a paper clip.

the drawing pod is a neat idea, but to go as far as comparing it to a paper clip? i'd go for the paper clip any day

Just checked out the drawing pod web site. The way it opens up is pretty sweet.
I want one.

Vegetable Furniture Haiku:

Ugly wood and glass
Explain American taste
My child broke the glass

Trip over the cords
The top-heavy bean falls
Crashes on my dog

I grow thirteen beans
My power bill grows double
Power plant pollutes

Cutting edge design?
Sharp Vege Table corner
My leg bleeds again

Vegetable Furniture Haiku:

Perfect wood and glass
Explain universal taste
This will kick your ass

Where are the cords friend
The lite bean rises up
Smiling is my dog

I grow many beans
It uses recycled energy
Less than my red bike

Cutting edge envy?
Sharp serpentine comments come
Disguised as an haiku

More design haiku, please!


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