The concept is that of old candles and now is to achieve a light that can be transported to the house and placed in any shelf. And it is this consideration that started the young Swiss designer Christine Birkhoven, creator of “Good Night Eileen.”

The forms, as can be seen, recall those of lumini, but show interesting technical solutions: first of all use of LEDs that minimizes consumption and increases the duration of the lamp. Moreover, thanks to technology and charging contact between the base and one illuminating, who did not see but there is, the lamp when charging autonomously and not ever stop to shine.

Surely an object is a little ‘atypical this Tidy Room of Todby Evans. We could call it “collect clothes” even if in addition to collect dirty clothes allows us to easily load washing machine. The object and very simple but very functional, a good project, in particular regarding the terms of use of the product itself.

Bomi Kim is a young U.S. designer who is highlighting for its ability to achieve small electronic objects with emphasis on how to use and adaptability of the products themselves.

One example is “Meaning of Time”, a real wall clock from extremely small size.

The particularity of this watch is personalization: in fact, “Meaning of Time” is fixed to the wall via two special forums in which you can insert two pencils, two twigs or anything else we can transform into two hands.

A project extremely flexible, the result of a designer of which still hear talk in the future.

The Italian study Sovrappensiero attended the Salone Satellite 2008 with a collection of products investigating the difficult, but in some ways also fascinating world of non vendenti.

A condition, that of the blind leading the development of all other senses and leads to an interior more sensitive and characterized by a certain capacity introspective.

That is why I am born projects such as “Autumn”, a particular carpet “sound” filled with special materials, thus, in the silence of marble and wooden floors of our house our steps as playing on a carpet of leaves.

And then there’s “Soap Opera”, a framework that lives through the user, making him a more intimate and direct contact through the skin and olfactory, overcoming barriers and distances taxes sight. The work is not finished, but is only half of his journey; needs of ‘ “observer” to continue to live, of telling whether, in a backward…

Keep reading: Salone Satellite 2008: the world of blind seen from Sovrappensiero