Most laptop stands are all about function over form, an eyesore you want to hide away once you’re done with work. Not so with the Dopludo Laptop Stand.

Japanese designer Toshiyuki Kita has collaborated with japan based-manufacturer INAX to create ‘Froth’, a bathtub that looks to offer a new bathing experience.

Realized through the technologies of INAX, the tub contains a unique component which allows for the production of substance-safe bubbles. A layer of foam, which enters through a separate spout acts as a lid in keeping the water warm and the steam inside. Distinctive in its appearance, the bathtub features contoured sides that are designed to engulf the body and provide maximum comfort to the user.

The start of this project was a focus on light sources. Instead of completely designing a newly shaped lamp, ‘Relumine’ plays on the fact that we have to switch from old light bulbs to new energy saving light sources. Each ‘Relumine’ uses two, discarded lamps, which are disassembled, sanded, newly lacquered and adapted with newer technology, before they are connected by a glass tube which holds a fluorescent tube. By introducing a different means of light source to the old lamps, their look and feel changes completely. They become one new unit, each with its own character. Together these two lamps need less energy than each one in its previous life.

Read more at Design Milk: http://design-milk.com/the-poets/#ixzz18wnx06AY

Design by Meneghello Paolelli Associati, based on the design of a coffee cup.