Hasta La Ideas

Here’s what we looked at this week:

Bistroo, by furniture designer Dirk Wynants, is a modern update to sidewalk café furniture.

Plusminus, by industrial designer Stefan Diez, is a lighting system based on power-conducting webbing straps.

The Lizzy chair, by industrial designer David Dolcini, features a subtle and unusual gesture.

Basso, by industrial designer Manuel Amaral Netto, is a handsomely designey rolling side table/bar cart.

This Govee Curtain Lights rig turns walls and windows into big, animated Lite-Brites.

Eindhoven-based designer Tim Teven’s Pressure Furniture series is made from 2mm aluminum sheets with patterns pressed into them.

The Taccia Lamp, designed by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, was an initially flawed design that became a design classic.

Blofield Air Design’s DoNuts Is a lightweight, easy-to-store, easy-to-move partially inflatable picnic table.

Industrial designer Cairn Young spotted a nice design detail in this Olfa retractable craft knife.

If you’re designing inflatable products or furniture, here’s a tiny and rechargeable powered air pump that might help.

Vitamin Design offers this simple, space-saving design for a wall-mounted wine rack that doesn’t protrude into the room.

PHOS, by Product Design student Gabriele Onnis, is an unusual rechargeable lighting system.

Mill replaces your kitchen garbage can with a system to turn food waste into chicken feed. Designed for convenience, it’s a step beyond composting.

Borrowing a trick from the toy design world, Women’s World Cup broadcaster Fox Sports has commissioned a 20-foot statue of Alex Morgan with a 3D-printed head.

Image: Fox Sports

Image: Fox Sports

This week four volunteers moved into Mars Dune Alpha, NASA’s BIG-designed 3D-printed Mars habitat, for one year.

The Sogu Hanging Holder, a minimal way to store extra toilet paper, seems like a design school project.

A metal fabricator is actually selling their off-cuts as objets d’esign.

Product designer Annabella Hevesi’s Crosses chair uses an experimental foam-shaping technique.