Hasta La Ideas

Architects Amelia Tapia and Juan Ruiz designed Iwi, a collapsible cabin that serves as a space-saving extra room on demand.

Image: JAG Studio

Image: JAG Studio

Image: JAG Studio

Image: JAG Studio

Japanese stationery company Lihit Lab makes this handy, tiny portable bag or headphones hook. It folds flat and attaches to any horizontal surface using gravity.

This audio-cassette-shaped object, which comes with its own vintage-Braun-looking speaker, actually lets you stream to an analog boombox. It’s by Hong-Kong-based NINM Lab.

Fora Form’s lightweight Clip Table was designed with the legs offset on one end. This allows them to be stacked for storage, and provides a point of registration when the tables are joined end-to-end.

Nothing’s new Ear (2) wireless earbuds, with that eye-catching transparent design, suggest an empowered design team.

This innovative design concept for an overnight train’s sleeper car adopts a diagonal layout, increasing the amount of berths that can be fit into each car.

Ford’s German-built electric Explorer is easy on the eyes. It also looks like there wasn’t a lot lost between the design renders and the sheet metal. And there’s a fancy movable touchscreen inside.

This beautiful Maple Stool, which has an innovative tilting mechanism, is by Danish furniture designer Line Depping.

Here are two designs for modular stacking shelves with unusual connection methods, by furniture designers Hampus Penttinen and Hemmo Honkonen. (Click the link to see how they work.)

This Muji-inspired Dusty waste bin with integrated dustpan and brush is by industrial designer Liam de la Bedoyere, a/k/a Bored Eye Design.

Forss, by industrial designer Jake Naish, is a brilliant design for an easy-to-clean, size-adjustable thermos/water bottle.

This experimental Canti chair is by industrial designers Mirko Ihrig and Casey Lewis, a/k/a Lotto.

Norwegian industrial design consultancy Minoko designed this Kelvin Epos 300, an easily-adjustable film/photography light with a striking industrial aesthetic.

This unusual Pop-Cycle shrinks for storage and expands for use not by folding, but by sliding.

This low-tech Pill Popper medication tracker, by product design consultancy Klugonyx, hijacks the bubble-wrap-popping pleasure center part of brain.

These Syncline Folding Desks, by Australia-based Sylex Ergonomics, are designed to be linked together and also folded/nested for storage.

This minimal tado° thermostat, by industrial design consultancy Pong, visually disappears when you’re not using it.

This leather, cork and plywood Bond Stool is an unusual piece of storage furniture by designer Ricardo Sá.

Unusual Industrial Design student work: Thorben Heuer’s porcelain ISO16 coffee mugs trade a handle for heat-sink fins.