Michael Hansmeyer is an architect who uses algorithmic architecture techniques, generative art mentalities, and CAD software to generate complex structures. He designs processes to generate objects. These columns of milled 1mm ABS plastic layers were exhibited at the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale. They are eerie in their other-worldliness and are endlessly fascinating.

Pieke Bergmans produced a limited edition of eight water carafes working together with glass blowers, pulling the bubble of molten glass into extreme shapes improvising with the craftsmen in the glassblowing process.  The resulting carafes are exquisite.

The AP Stool designed by Shin Azumi for Italian manufacturer Lapalma  is produced from a single shell of bent plywood, maximizing plywood’s structural capabilities to produce an elegant, comfortable, sculptural form.