Southern California Goes Solar Plant

Southern California Goes Solar Plant

Yanko Design

Solar panels have been around for quite a few years now, but like any great technology, it takes hundreds of iterations before it catches on as a perfectly suitable solution to masses of everyday problems. Here's another piece in that great puzzle. Nectar Design's made a fabulously pretty set of plant-esque solar panels by the name of Solarflora™. This project's already been adopted by a charter school in Southern California. Plant em everywhere! Cute!

The first location for these planted panels is an urban garden operated by the publicly funded charter New City Schools in SoCal. Each Solarflora is a flower-like sculpture designed with three solar panels, each one representing a "leaf." Each leaf provides 90 watts of poster and maximum amperage for the fully functional on-site offices at these NCS schools.

Yay please send me a million. Super day!

Designer: Nectar Design

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Yasir Bucha. 

Bike Courtesy of Aircraft Manufacturing Technology

Bike Courtesy of Aircraft Manufacturing Technology

Yanko Design

This doesn't happen every day. A Tbilisi based aircraft manufacturing company contacts you and asks for a proposal on a bike that utilizes aluminum square tubes. It has to look modern, out of the ordinary, aerodynamic and turn heads. The result is the Spider. The main frame is made by welding aluminum tubes and the chain stays are cold stamped together. The spokes are purposely kinked to look like our arachnid friends. Hmm…

Designer: Zviad Tsikolia for Tsikolia Design R&D Ltd.

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Yasir Bucha. 

Ball Pillow Conglomerate

Ball Pillow Conglomerate

Yanko Design

This is a ball pillow project like I've never seen before. It's probably the best ball pillow project I've had the pleasure of writing about all year. It's the "Daydreamer" furniture piece by Feng, Cheng-Tsung and Lin, Kai-Ting. Made from artificial fur, low-density foam, high-density foam, and canvas, these balls, like most balls in all forms of course, are made to work with one another.

The outside 9 balls of this sofa are filled with low-density foam, while the other 40 balls are filled with high-density foam. Between every three balls there is, of course, a gap, through which another ball can fit and stay put. Each of the 9 perimeter balls can be squished, put through the gap and let go to expand and stay!

Thusly! There can be a whole LOT of different shapes this thing can be. At the height of it's power, the Daydreamer can accommodate 7 adults. Seven! Then if you want to wash it, have no fear! The fur outer can empty out the foam inner with a simple zipper opening, allowing for the fur to be cleaned easily at the dry cleaner or just in the wash like a normal pair o pants.

Designers: Cheng-Tsung Feng and Kai-Ting Lin

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Yasir Bucha.