Leaf Lamp

Why: A combination bedside lamp and table support for books, clocks etc.

Who: Ben Allee, Furniture Gang

Chaise en bois

who: Khaled Morgan, 25 years old, doing a masters in sustainable architecture in Milan

why: "I have an enormous interest in all the design's domains including furniture, industrial design and arts. I think they are all related to creativity."

where: Piacenza, Italy

We at Furniture Gang heartily agree with you, Khaled and appreciate your submission. Keep it coming.

Clothesline Pavilion

I offer the designer series clothes line, half arbor and half clothesline. Why not make a space out of the zone for drying clothes? In Australia there is the ubiquitous pole clothesline that offers nothing and takes up space and plagues the suburban backyard. Why can't we intergrate this use in order to make a little space or define a boundary in the yard?

who: Ben Allee, Furniture Gang

why: Furnathon for me is about capturing those moments of design inspiration.

Furnathon 09 - Alternate modes of transport

Furnathon 09 is off. Let the fun begin.

The furniture gang R&D department has been hard at work offering its own solutions to the sustainable transportation issue. Being in australia offers a rare insight into a potentially vast and inexhaustible resource of kangaroo assisted transport.

Note: Kangaroo in photo not to scale

furnathon 08 highlights

It's furnathon season again. I thought that we would post some of the highlights from last year. The core idea of furnathon is to see what ideas you generate during the day in reference to design and then post them. But we are happy to have any ideas that people have developed on their own and would like to share. Consequently, the work varies from polished 3d models to simple sketches. Let's get those design engines revved for this year.

Justin H's (SFO) new furniture gang logo
Michael Mckenzie's smart spaces storage lounge
Inigo Ortiz Monasterio (Mexico) zero waste plywood designs
Inigo Ortiz Monasterio (Mexico) zero waste plywood designs
Shane O's (PDX) modular storage chair
Shane O's (PDX) modular storage chair
Ben A's (Australia) all in one furniture cabinet
Ben A's (Australia) tree couch
Shane's (PDX) ball and joint coffee table sketch
Designer X's refinished furniture concepts

Designer X's biodegradable plastics chair concept

Furnathon 09: Furniture & Design Marathon

FURNATHON 09

August 24 - 30th

What:

An exchange of ideas for the exercise of creative expression, centering on furniture, product, and small space design.

Specifics:

7 days of design

Up to one idea a day submitted, per designer

Submissions can be sketches, models, renderings, or video.

Furniture Gang will promote designs on website and blog.

We may be so impressed that we would love to have you on the team.

Submissions:

We accept JPG, GIF, and PNG images, 8MB maximum size.

For videos; AVI, MPEG, Quicktime, Real, 100 MB max.

A blurb of what your design means to you.

Who you are, what you do, why you do it.

Your contact info.

Send to furnituregang@gmail.com

Legal stuff:

This is about creative expression and sharing design ideas. Designers retain any rights of ownership.

No entry fees.

View the website

Case Study 1 - Hawthorne Blvd Law Office, Portland, OR

our redesign

client requests:

-separate conference space

-private office spaces

-open office area

-reception and waiting area along with a divider to the kitchen

graphic wall options

graphic wall options

graphic wall options

existing plan as apartment

existing condition of space

Animal Lights - Salmon

3D salmon lights made of either porcelain or translucent plastic/resin.

Lighting Techniques

thin wood veneered extruded triangle that would light up at the top section
A light concept of building model chandeliers. This one is a nod to corbu.
Animal light series. We are thinking of birds, schools of fish and of course the mighty buffalo.

We are turning over lots of new leaves at the furniture gang shop. We have decided to join the land of commerce instead of just building furniture for ourselves. We have started working with a Portland furniture shop on some new designs. See the images for our newest lighting designs.

Rendertown, USA

Like the tiny house, I just had to get on the rounded-cube bandwagon. The half Swiss built-in bed, half future cube is a micro pod that satisfies all the elements of a new kind of furniture design.

The Rationale

Stuff is the new building block. We can satisfy our psychological desires by surrounding ourselves with the things we own, love and love to look at. The bed becomes a dresser that you sleep in. They combine like a bad genetics experiment. Iconic furniture pieces (table, chair, bed) become voluminous voids to stow your every possession. Why? Because the Fight Club mantra of “the things you own end up owning you” was wrong. What defines our existence is our ability to own and modify space. Also, I don’t want to get punched in the face and you want a place to put your 87 copies of InStyle Magazine.

As these shapes combine they grow into objects that redefine the bland storage boxes that surround us. Let the furniture germinate and produce an astounding array of new mixes and combinations.