Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts

Saturday, May 7, 2011

the oldest wheels in California, a look at how the first wheels were designed

Above is design, below is what remains of a round piece of wood 205 years after it was installed on an ox cart, consider that the log it was cut from may have been 100 years old to get this big around and it's possible that the wood is over 300 years old.





In the stagecoach museum in Old Town San Diego

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Mad Looking Chairs designed by English Designer From Trash

English designer Osian Batyka-Williams makes mad looking but hard to reuse objects into unique, if not particularly comfortable looking chair designs.





Reusable components are salvaged from thrown out furniture and fittings, and then combined with a touch of FSC plywood to create exclusive hybrids.



The tube chair is made from stainless steel tubes