Kinetic furniture design

Built out by YouTuber and woodwork craftsman Dekay’s Crafts, the ‘kinetic scissor door’ uses a series of folding segments to open in an absolutely eye-catching way. Most wooden doors either open on a single hinge, or a sliding rail, but Dekay’s scissor door fragments into 6 different pieces as it opens, and joins back into a flat panel when closed. VIEW MORE NOW!

Kinetic Sculpture: "Sine Machine": I know I don't have time to build my machine in the real world just yet, but I put it together in the CAD world first. The idea is to have a lot of simple moving parts that create an overall, fluid look. I have designed it to be operated by hand b…

Wave is a kinetic art prototype I designed in a day to test an idea for the start of a modular 3D printed art piece. Currently, the design is made to

10 people, 18 sheets of plywood, 119 sections, 928 pieces, a $1000 budget and endless potential permutations - this wooden seating proposition takes its inspiration from kinetic Slinkies and reverberating see-saws, but is rigorously engineered and ergonomically sound. A pivot-and-bold system tra ...

Transform embodies a vision for the future of interactivity where objects change shape to give physical form to digital information.

Reader Submitted: Crane: A Playful, Kinetic Lamp Bringing Back the Joy of Mechanical Devices. lampada da tavolo #tablelamp

The room dedicated to the Wall at the 2014 Venice Biennale’s “Elements of Architecture” exhibition traces the development and evolution of walls over...

Palo-Alto-based designer Robby Cuthbert studied both sculpture and architecture. The melding of both fields has yielded his approach to furniture design: "I combine the careful planning and engineering mindset characteristic of architecture," he writes, "with the freedom of form allowed by sculpture."One of Cuthbert's go-to materials is one we don't...

Industrial designer Yael Akirav has designed a series of lighting fixtures, created using a combination of 3D printing and conductive materials.

The Humble Velocipede, by Small Wonder Toys, is described as "a desktop bamboo walking machine." You may have seen Strandbeest, the massive kinetic