Hasta La Ideas

That’s industrial designer Mugi Yamamoto’s compact inkjet printer concept, Stack. Placed atop a pile of paper, the printer works its way down, sheet by sheet. In addition to providing a wonderful visual cue of whether or not the printer needs to be restocked—or is that re-stacked—there is a practical inspiration behind the design: To get rid of the paper tray, “the bulkiest element in common printers.”

Yamamoto, a freshly-minted ID grad from the Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, has generated a good bit of blogosphere buzz for Stack. But the rest of his book is worth a gander as well, demonstrating some brilliant materials experimentation. Check out his Inversilight, which takes advantage of silicone’s flexibility to create a lampshade that the user can “pop” into one of two positions, focusing or scattering the light as needed:

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