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8. Keep skipping : Skip your phone to life with Pulse, a custom-designed jump rope by Unchartered Play. It gathers up kinetic energy and converts it into enough electricity to charge small devices. There's something quite apt about jumping up and down for your phone! -
3. Well-trained crockery : Seems like washing up days are numbered! This fab new cellulose plate and cup set was created by the Swedish design studio Tomorrow Machine and can clean itself because of a superhydrophobic coating that makes it resistant to dirt and water. -
9. Fantastic static : Wave good old Post-it notes goodbye and make way for the new eco-friendly Slickynotes! They stick onto any dry and smooth surface, both sides, without needing sticky strips. Being electrostatically charged, they can be stuck and re-stuck for weeks on end. -
2. Elastics cubed : Nendo’s great new take on office stationery includes a free-standing, cube-shaped rubber band, detachable paper clips made of paper and an acrylic ruler that has numbers fading from dark to light to make it easy for working on dark and light surfaces. -
5. A vase is not a vase : This redesign by Londoner Lambert Rainville is simply a plastic ring of triangular funnels that hold flower stems halfway up. Perched at an angle, the stems are perfectly balanced and can either fit neatly into a glass vase or stand in a dish of water. -
1. No horsing about : Graduate Aaron Dunkerton’s 12-pointed, star-shaped clotheshorse doesn’t just offer more space to hang wet clothes, it promises quicker drying time too. Made from plywood, the 36-arm structure folds up to much smaller than its conventional equivalent. -
6. Less slip and no slide : Promising less frustration when hanging clothes, like collared shirts and button-up tops, is the Z-shaped hanger by Irish studio Gazel. When sliding the shirt onto one side of the hanger, the asymmetrical handle will tilt upright to hold the garment. -
7. More boost, less beard : Overslept? It’s as easy as shaving your beard to get a cuppa-free energy boost with this new caffeinated shaving cream. Made from coffee beans and smelling like peppermint oil, it was developed by husband and wife team Stan Ades and CC Sonofras. -
10. The shape of egg-holders to come : Clever Portuguese design student Gil Rodrigues redesigned the old egg-holder into a hexagon-shaped cardboard container. The Hex-Egg-On is made up of six separate, pyramid-shaped boxes to hold and cushion each egg. -
4. Dust-buster : When Danish designer Ole Jensen got sick of his studio’s ineffective dustpan and broom, he went back to basics and used a simple brush and folded newspaper to do the job — better. So his flat polypropylene pan and beech broom were born.
WORDS Debbie Loots
We know the wheel doesn’t need reinventing, but we do think the function of a few other everyday things should to be amped up a notch or two. So we went on a domestic blitz to address the bugbears that are impractical clothes hangers, dodgy egg holders, a heavily burdened clotheshorse, seriously ugly rubber bands and incompetent dustpans. In the process we came across some pure genius like self-cleaning crockery, caffeinated shaving cream and glue-free stickynotes that make use of static.
Browse our ten fresh redesigns that definitely puts the epic into the mundane. Then tell us in the comments below what is your domestic bugbear; what would you like to see redesigned?
1. equivalent.aarondunkerton.com
2. nendo.jp
3. tomorrowmachine.se
4. olejensendesign.com
5. lambertrainville.wordpress.com
6. gazelhome.com
7. pacificshaving.com
8. unchartedplay.com
9. ecostaticinc.com
10. gil-design.tumblr.com
