Hasta La Ideas

A strange source of inspiration: Belgian designer Danny Venlet’s Google Desk has a shape that was apparently inspired by the Google search window in the top right of your browser.

Venlet reportedly designed it for Italian manufacturer Babini Office, though at press time there was no mention of the product on either of their websites. And as far as we can tell, despite the desk’s name and provenance there’s been no official tie-in with Google.

Microsoft being Microsoft, there’s surely going to be talk of a competing Bing desk; perhaps theirs will somehow be shaped like a blinking cursor.

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