That people wore clothes back in the Stone Age will hardly come as a surprise to anyone who last minute valentines ideas up watching The Flintstones. That show, never wholly reliant on established archaeological fact, didn’t get too specific about its time period. The location of such marks indicate that the bear was not simply butchered but carefully skinned.
Based in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities, language, and culture. The Flow Wall Desk acknowledges the potential how to combine functionality with art. This results in creating a desk inside one’s indoor environment. And only with one twist, it becomes a true joy to have a separate working area when needed.
It can be subscribed as a piece of functional art that builds on the design track record of transformations in space. Inspired by recent global events and the longer-term trends that precede them, to devise a statement piece that lends dignity to the digital workspace through craft, warm textures, and durably engineered fastenings. The Flow Wall Desk is adaptable and with the contemporary design elements, it can be used throughout homes, libraries, hotels, and many other inside designations. Usability demands that an everyday object such as this should be created with a generalized user’s psychology in mind. Vertical element emerges from the wall like a caterpillar with the help of specifically placed hinges.
These exposed brass hinges establish a visual rhythm and ensure that the form can follow its function. This led to the notion of a transformation in form and purpose achieved through a single, simple gesture that everyone can familiarize themselves with. The horizontal work surface is comfortable yet functional due to its depth and width for the seated user and making it perfect for typing and handwriting. Finally, a unique opportunity is created for a temporary work surface and ergonomically adjustable desk in a sunny corner which invites the user to fold that desk away when work is over.
With the finished design appearance, more sustainable material developments are being examined and analyzed for production. And when it comes to functionality, each part of the Flow Wall desk has been specifically engineered without losing the appeal to attract, just like a folding magic trick with a well-kept secret. And find more of his work on Instagram here. If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newsletter, please find it here. If you would like to support the mission of Open Culture, consider making a donation to our site. I don’t recall any of my elementary-school classmates looking forward to head-lice inspection day.
But had archaeological progress been a few decades more advanced at the time, the teachers might have turned it into a major history lesson. For it was on a comb, designed to remove head lice, that researchers in southern Israel recently found the oldest known sentence written in an alphabet. May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard. There were no elephants in Canaan at the time. Despite its small size, then, this comb must have been a big-ticket item.
Where was the ivory comb inscribed? What purpose did the inscription serve? As our lice-combating technology has evolved over the millennia, so have our alphabets. Phoenician to Old Hebrew to Old Aramaic to Ancient Greek to Latin, becoming the basis for today’s modern English characters. And that wasn’t its only path: Korea, where I live, has a completely different alphabet of its own, but one that caught on for the same reasons as its distant cousins elsewhere in the world. Great Wave, as it has come to be known.