Right now I am doing a lot of research around approaches to drawing. So, here is a summary post of drawing tables and things you can draw on…
Childrens Paper Chair

“The chair encourage people to buy environmental friendly products, intended to make a comment on our use of paper, is shaped as a toilet-roll. As [...]

I’d previously written about projects that use dinner tables as places for play & exploring here and here.
Continuing along this theme, Ingrid Brandth has created Daily Shelter…

“Feeling safe is not necessarily being safe.
We feel protected and secure in surroundings that
are familiar to us, where we can control the
space around us - physically or psychologically.
The Daily [...]

Two great concepts that take boring household objects and make them playful using marbles…

The Xylophone Bin (2008) by Dominic Wilcox…
“When the pedal is pressed the lid opens, releasing a ball that travels down a ‘helterskelter’ set of xylophone steps around the bin. Each time the ball hits a step, a note is played. The xylophone [...]

Moritz Waldemeyer was interviewed for this weeks BBC Culture Show, giving a tour of his work in his studio.
It was available on the UK only iPlayer, but you can now watch on youtube here.
More from Moritz on Pixelsumo
By Royal Appointment
OK Go Costumes
This happened #1

A while ago I wrote about Plable by Yumiko Tanaka, a project that mixes childs play with social family eating at the dinner table.
Whilst at the graduate show for Goldsmiths University last year I got to play with a wonderful project by Sonal Patel who was at the same time as Yumiko having similair thoughts [...]

Looking through the site of Hector Serrano from a previous post, I found this collaboration with Lola Llorca…
“Manolo Is Gonna Have Fun takes fun to the extreme with common objects. Objects that combine normal function and are amusing. Manolo´s products are inspired by toys and the actions of playing games. Manolo is gonna have fun [...]

At our first This happened event, Moritz Waldemeyer presented his amazing kinetic robotic dresses in collaboration with Hussein Chalayan. From an engineering background, his work is not only extremly well built technically, but also has become very elegant, subtle and in a class of its own.
So last week I was keen to go to [...]

Continuing research into play in everyday situations, I was very happy to stumble upon the Play! range from BCXSY (cooperative between designers Boaz Cohen and Sayaka Yamamoto).
“PLAY! consists of a collection of products that was conceived out of a desire to bring a sense of nostalgia and playfulness into the grown-up environment. Recognizable childhood [...]