Hasta La Ideas

Here’s a trio of neat design concepts from Coroflotter Ming Cao, a Wuxi, China-based industrial designer with more than ten years in the game.

His Telescopic Door Handle, above, would be brilliant on public bathroom doors where you often have to knock to determine if someone’s inside. When you lock the door from the inside, the knob on the other side retracts, providing a clear visual and physical indication that you can’t enter.

Cao’s Cross Bamboo stool and light combine plastic and bamboo, the latter of which is abundant in tropical regions. It’s not clear if this is his marketing intent, but it would be cool to sell just the business ends of the pieces and allow the end-user to locate their own legs and chop them down to size.

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