I think we learn something every day if we pay attention to the world around us. For example I had no idea what a tryptich was until recently when I discovered that it sounds a lot more complicated than it really is. In case you did not know either, a tryptich is a work of art that is usually made of painted panels and which is divided into tree separate parts. The funny thing about these parts is the fact that they are not displayed next to each other, but they do have some space in between them. And this makes the tryptich even more interesting as design.

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We now live in an era when many of the revolutionary inventions that changed the world are no longer useful. For example, the phone booth was a great invention when it was first introduced on the streets. It made our lives much more easier and it changed our perspective on technology. However, the very same concept that the phone booths were based on has grown and has led to the creation of cell phones. We all carry them now so we no longer need or use the phone booths. But they are a nostalgic memory and don’t deserve to be discarded just like that. So a few people decided to repurpose them and turn them into works of art.

This is a movement that first appeared in Brazil. It was then adopted in Japan as well. Here, art collective Kingobu has repurposed phone booths into goldfish aquariums. It’s an image that personally sends me to magicians and their tricks. But this has nothing to do with magic. It’s just the result of the efforts of this group that turned these old phone booths that nobody uses anymore into something that we can all relate to, something that we can all admire and something that impresses once again.

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As we have said with numerous other occasions and you probably noticed by now, inspiration sometimes comes from the most unusual placed. Take this furniture line for example. It features a series of chairs/small sofas with shapes that clearly represents the “&”sign. In fact, the name of the collection says it all.The “Chair & Chair” series was designed by Tatiana Bortkevica, a young professional interior and product designer based in Paris. She chose to think out of the box and to search for inspiration in some more unusual places.

It’s this how the sign concretized into a chair. The fact that the source of inspiration is so unusual and unexplored makes this series highly original. The design then makes it very modern. The chairs which can also be considered small sofas have very clean and simple designs. They represent a stylized version of the “&” symbol and they follow its lines closely.

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