Fan Blades Made of Chicken Wings

 

 

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Fan Blades Made of Chicken Wings

via Yanko Design by Chris Burns on 5/7/09

No joke! This fan can make your chicken wing fan fantasy a reality! With the "JOININ' Fan" you can clip in whatever you like! Though you may have been inundated with false lab-made smells if you work amongst other people, your nose always knows. Let your nose have a rose. Clip in some pedals and let 'er fly! Wafting the loveliness of whatever blades you choose to insert, the Joinin' Fan is exactly the kind of cute invention that all free-spirited kawaii-seekers aught to peek at.

Qian Jiang and Yiying Wu have a lovely poem written for you explaining the usages and the spirit of this fun-loving and oddly appealing non-traditional fan.

JOININ' Fan

Three clips no fan blade
So what's next
In spring
go to seek some sweet flowers
In summer
go to seek some boards
At Christmas
go to seek some red stockings

But can I clip chicken drumsticks
But can I clip silk ribbons
Sure, why not
It's all your life
Enjoy it

Enjoy it indeed!

And of course, we must discuss the chicken. What about the chicken? How is that even a thing that anyone would have even thought of putting in this fan. How realistic is basically every chicken-lovers strangest dream… or nightmare?

Designer: Qian Jiang and Yiying Wu

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Tokyo Fiber 2009 SENSEWARE PART 2

 

 

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Tokyo Fiber 2009 SENSEWARE PART 2

via Yanko Design by Long Tran on 5/7/09

Part 2 of our coverage. Jun Aoki, Kashiwa Sato, Kengo Kuma, Kosuke Tsumura.

Part 1

Exhibition: Tokyo Fiber

Ultra-long arm thin beam cantilever lighting fixture

Jun Aoki / Toray Industries, Inc.

Material: TORAYCA

With a pure and simple innovative approach, architect Jun Aoki took a close look at carbon fiber and conceived a product that straightforwardly brings out the characteristics of this fiber. Carbon fiber provides strength under tension and is very light, as can be clearly seen from the structure of the long cantilever bean that Aoki produced. Stretching across the room, the lighting fixture illuminates more than enough space for five chars side by side, even when the chairs are spread out.

 

Toy building blocks made from highly elastic monofilament fibers

Kashiwa Sato / Toyobo Co., LTD.

Material: BREATHAIR

Art Director Kashiwa Sato is active in a wide range of areas from kindergarten design to design of mobile phone handsets. Sato had the idea of making blocks for kindergarten age children. These are soft building blocks of air. The highly elastic monofilament is extruded into random cells to make a cushion material that is 95% air, thereby effectively capturing air in three dimensions. The material is washable, safe, and clean. Ideal for building dens!

 

Light penetrable architecture for communicating with outside

Kengo Kuma / Mitsubishi Rayon Co., LTD.

Material: Plastic optical fiber ESKA

By embedding optical fibers continuously, then cutting across fibers, it is possible to make concrete that light will penetrate. Kengo Kuma, known for architecture, understands building design can be influenced by the potential of its materials. These piled light blocks create a new architectural vocabulary. The space he produced is translucent, so people inside sense the shadows of people walking outside. This represents a radical change for the character of a solid material that would normally shut out light.

 

Softness and firmness from the same material

Kosuke Tsumura / Kuraray Co., LTD.

Material: FELIBENDY

Kosuke Tsumura, a fashion design who is constantly searching for new, meaningful perspectives for clothing and people, created clothing for a mother and her baby. The rockable cradle that gently accepts the new-born baby is made from a material that is soft like a blanket. The impression in the center is firm like a silk cocoon. Individual laser cut units are combined like puzzle pieces to form the mother's clothes.

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Air-dry Dishes

 

 

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Air-dry Dishes

via Yanko Design by Radhika Seth on 5/7/09

We recently discussed how Ultra Violet can be a great way of sterilizing kitchen cutting boards and now it's time to discuss its benefits in a dishwasher. UV plays a key role in the Electrolux Wind Washer Dishwasher, which comprises of a three-step procedure. In step one, it uses a stream of high-pressure air to blow away all the leftover food crumbs on the dishes, to a waste holding bay. In step two, it steams them to degrease them. In the final stage, it uses UV to sterilize them.

In case you are wondering why there is limited space in the service bay, it's because this Wind Washer is meant for single persons who are always on the go. One simply needs to place the used dishes in the bay and align the auto-sliding handle to the top edge. Vents inside the handle, blow out the air, steam and UV lights, in quick succession. The flip-side to this design is that it does only two dishes at a time.

The designer suggests that the proportion of water used in this appliance is pretty less compared to what we traditionally use; hence it makes for great eco-sense. However, all this sounds really good on paper, but in practicality the power consumption, effective sterilization and the efficiency of the device will truly determine its worth.

Designer: Hwang Jin wook

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