Industrial Design

Belgium-based furniture and product designer Kaspar Hamacher "loves wood and his chain saw." But for these stools he turned up the heat and introduced raw fire as a tool.

The series, titled ‘Ausgebrannt,’ (i.e. ‘Burnt Out’), embraces the raw form of naturally felled or dead wood. Kaspar takes the local tree remnants, pieces them together, and uses fire sculpting to carve out the legs. The scorching and use of raw timber produces some beautiful and unique details within the stool and table "templates."

Hypercolor is back! The Thermo Snap case from Incase brings a little 80s / 90s flair to modern technology, with much less potential for embarrassment than the retro clothing line.

Multidisciplinary design agency Biegert & Funk—based in Germany—are the minds behind the modern and sleek Qlock2 clock design. The QlockTwo and QlockTwo Touch use typography instead of numerals to display the time within a perfect square, and white LED lights highlight the current hour by backlighting the corresponding words, creating a statement of time rather than just a numerical marker.

Toast, currently on Kickstarter, promises to create beautiful handcrafted veneers to protect and customize iPhone appearance.

The veneers are real wood, laser-etched and finished by hand. Application to the phone's back adds protection and texture for better grip.