We Have Upgraded!

Dear readers, thank you for your readership and support since I started this blog. The lack of posts recently is due to my attention being diverted to another project: dxyn.net

Yeah, Trick My Crib is now dxyn.net
dxyn = design

This blog will still be accessible for the time being as I continue working on our new site. Once 100% operational, I'll be putting a re-direct page to automatically send you over to our new crib.

Check us out for more great ideas!

A Shorty on Good Design

Good design doesn't have to be cutting edge or highly sophisticated, it just needs to be thoughtful. To this end I think IKEA deserves an honourable mention. But no, these tealight holders aren't from IKEA, they're by Form Us With Love also, incidentally, Swedish.

 Anyone who's ever tried lighting a tealight in a cup knows that this exercise can hurt. These are designed with a notch for a matchstick. In my book this is a "Why didn't I think of that" moment. 

Groovy Retro Car Sofa

Trick My Crib DXYN is all about inspiring you with the funkiest designs out there today, but outside of the Crib, my real passion is cars. And old cars. And this piece, the Sofa 600 by Bel & Bel Studio ticks all the boxes.



Check out the making of the Sofa 600 and more pix after the jump

DXYN/design Something in the pipe

Regulars to this blog would notice the change in the header. Without letting the cat out of the bag, something's brewing and change is a coming.

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Jenga House - No Floors, Walls or Ceilings

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto set out to build the ultimate wooden house. It's pretty obvious where he got his inspiration from for this one. If you've never played Jenga, its about time you did.

While the exterior of this house may raise some eyebrows, or compel your inner O.C.D self to want to align all its chaotic surfaces, even more startling is the fact that this house has no floor, no walls, no ceiling and no furniture.

Sleek Minimalist Garden Chairs

In case you're looking for something a little different than the typical 'tropical style' teak wood garden furniture, this stuff may be for you. Apparently, they are very comfortable.

These zen designer garden chairs from Stephane Ducatteau are sculptural and functional at the same time, and would look truly pimp sitting on the front lawn of your modernist crib. I know I want one for mine.

Psychiatric Clinic with Twisted Interior Design

This is the seemingly stiff interior of the MD.net Clinic in Akasaka Tokyo. The black and white theme is all at once sombre, conservative and formal. Great for setting your mind straight you might think.


It has doors. Lots of doors...

...that do not open. WHAT?

Contemporary Wooden Outdoor Furniture

Apparently there were a couple of you guys who thought my fence sucked. In anycase, I can't help but think that the handmade Sunset Collection by Jonathan Stockton of UK would look great sitting in my front yard. And yes, because they match my fence.
 

Now here's the really trick part. They bling up at night with LED illumination in a single, or morphing colours, and with remote control capability. Sick huh. Wait till you hear the price.

Timber Fencing Construction with Resak Wood - Finale

Here it is, all done. I designed it to have no visible fasteners from the outside. I often think that in Malaysia, people spend big money getting contractors to build mega-bucks timber fences for them only to have the aesthetic spoilt by too many visible rivets/bolts. The devil's in the details.

The edges in the near side of the pic are irregular. It was intentional, and I wasn't sure how it would turn out. Either you like it or hate it.

Scratch-Building a Toaster.

When Thomas Thwaites scratch-builds a toaster, he doesn't mess around. In this case from scratch means mining the ore from which to get the iron from which to make the grill, the copper for the plug pins, nickel for the heater core and mica to wind the heater around. And yes, even sucking up some dino-oil from which to make the sleek plastic shell that dresses the crude innards of your average domestic toaster. Oh, you didn't know that plastic comes from dinosaurs?


This is just the intended goal. The blueprint on which the scratch-built toaster will be modeled upon.

Ultra Modern Bed

A good friend of mine asked where to buy a nice bed recently, so I decided I'd set the bar for just what should qualify as a 'nice bed'. Money being no object.

This number by Venturi Paris is a bit of a transformer. Converts from bed to lounge and something in between.

"Every morning there's a halo hanging from the corner of my girlfriend's four-post bed"