Cool Kids' Toy: Make Crazy Forts!

CRAZYFORTS

I love it. Then again, I'm not a mom who has to do the laundry afterwards. :)

Chair that puts itself back together

As you can see, this is the beginning stages of the robot uprising. How can you kill something that will just heal itself?



read more about the project here

via productwiki

Make Furniture for Kids Who Really Need it!!

The Adaptive Design Association /ADA makes adaptive equipment and
furniture for children with disabilities out of readily available
materials, like cardboard.

They're having a volunteer night, this Monday, April 23rd, from 6-8:30
p.m. in New York City.

Marianne says:

Volunteer nights are a lot of fun. We'll have a cardboard
fabrication and edging station (if you want to build some chairs out
of cardboard), a priming station (if you feel like painting but are
too tired to think) and a painting section if you feel like making
the furniture look beautiful.

ADA is located at 313 West 36th Street (between 8th and 9th avenues,
north side of the street)
phone 212.904.1200

If you're interested in coming, please contact Marianne (click the link below)
She needs to keep a headcount.

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http://www.mariannepetit.com ... it's all there ...
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Favela Chic

Once in a while I'm kind of grossed out by trends in design -- this chair called the "Favela Chair" is the perfect example of a movement, which has been around for a while, that could be called "Favela Chic".
I found the chair on Moss's website (i looove their products) and here's what they have to say:
(quote)
“Favela” refers to the ad-hoc shelters which are built out mud, sand, scraps of wood, bricks and stones in the hills and on the fringes of urban expansion around Rio de Janeiro. The name refers to the location of the first of such settlements, the hill “Morro da Favela”, built in the late 1800s by African-Brazilian veterans from the Canudos war who had nowhere else to go. The “Favela” chair is constructed piece-by-piece from the same wood used to build the favelas, and every piece is hand-glued and nailed.
(unquote)

The irony is in the price: the chair costs $2,985.00.

barf.

Did they chop that wood from brazilian rainforests too? Hmmm...

Kids' Tetris Furniture

Play+Soft 3-D Forms:







from their site:
"
PLAY+SOFT is a line of sort furnishings for children, consisting of 250 new products, developed from an idea by Maurizio Fontanilli, with the pedagogical consultancy of Reggio Children, a team of twenty-eight innovative international designers, and the art direction of ZPZ Partners.

The products are the result of a four-year research project and are manufactured in Italy by PLAY+

The dialogue between pedagogy and design and the theoretical reflections that were developed have created a unique range of soft play furnishings and play equipment that is open to interpretations, but is founded in a celebration of imaginative play and the idea that furnishings can be a protagonist in the construction of identity and ideas. PLAY+SOFT provides a foundation for creative environments that are multisensory, enjoyable and beautiful.

The PLAY+SOFT furnishings comprise a wide range of product types including soft three-dimenional "landscapes", micro-places, transformable seating, play structures, mats, modular forms, burrows and shelters. They are made of eco-friendly materials, fire-resistant but soft to the touch, in a broad range of colors and textures. They are designed for use in any place inhabited by children, not only infant-toddler centers and preschools but also shopping centres, restaurants, airports, waiting areas, and other public places.
"

Play+Soft is distributed by studiouk.net

here's a link to designer Harri Koskinen

found on daddytypes.com
go there for a ton of more info and photos