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Kit Out your Living Room with this Interesting Typography Furniture! |
Furniture can come in all shapes and sizes, design and typography go hand in hand, designers the world over use typography in various ways and means. Typography is used by artists and designers the world over and can make any piece of work stand out and really make the piece of work feel unique. Here is a collection of typography inspired furniture I have found whilst researching over the Internet in the past few weeks.
Found over at crookedbrains.net
Found over at designspotter.com, this is a ‘Muungano bench’ which has been lazer cut out.
Known as ‘La Dresser’ this piece of furniture was found over at the death by kerning blog, made by Wary Myers using an old set of drawers and revamped them.
Swiss firm Set 26 created this furniture and it is also available in six different colours also.
This design of a typography table can be found over at palette industries.
Called the Dharma Lounge, it reads “Stand Forget Breath Acknowledge Observe” this again was made by the people over at Pallette industries.
A very complex idea but put together with great precision, made by the American contemporary artist Joseph Kosuth.
These alphabet drawers are handmade over at Kent and London, the drawers were inspired by vintage printing blocks.
This campus floor lamp was found over at behance and again was made by those creatives over at Pallette Industries.
Character recycled typography was found over at Yanko Design. These reinstalled LEDs have a life span of 30,000 hours, and are recycled old lights which have previously would have been sent to landfill once there lifespan had ended.
Please leave your thoughts and comments, or any designs you may have come across yourself.
If you have any thoughts on the designs featured I would love to hear your comments.
Article written by Jared Thompson
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Jonathan is a London born designer, who studied at Newcastle Polytechnic. Soon after the completion of his studies in 1985 he became a partner in the London based design consultancy Tangerine. But only three years later he made the massive leap of moving to San Francisco in America to join Apple’s design team. By 1998 Johnathan Ive was then appointed vice-president of industrial design at Apple, where he launches the original iMac, which sells 2 million units in its first year. He has since designed great works such as the G4 cube, G4 Powerbook, iBook and portable iPod. 2003 brought more success with a design museum “designer of the year” prize. With products continually being brought out iMac, Powerbook and iPod mini with the slim iMac coming in 2004. By 2005 Johnathan had risen to Senior Vice President at Apple, reporting directly to the CEO Steve Jobs himself. 
The iMac (1998)
No only did the iMac have a great burst of colour it also is transparent giving the user an insight into inside the computer at the various components, care and attention was put into the internal components which were previous overlooked.
The iPod (2001)
The iPod was completely different and burst onto the market as a small pocket sized electronic device which was able to store your whole CD collection! The challenge was the interface in making the device simple and intuitive. The product itself is sealed off, with no screws and the user has no access to the electronic components stored inside. The twin shot shell is complimented with the polished stainless steel shell, which looks so stylish and expensive. Even the ear buds have shifted the market of headphones to introduce colour, they were white matching the iPod’s design and sat comfortably in the ear.
The inspiration of a lot of Jonathan Ive’s work is often attributed to the work of Dieter Rams, German industrial designer of the Bauhaus movement. Dieter Rams was one of the most influential designers of the 20th century transforming the success of Braun with some simply iconic products. The iPod itself has a lot of the styling traits of his record player “Snow White’s coffin.”
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