Keret House by Centrala: Thinnest Flat in The World

Keret House is a project by Jakub Szczęsny of Centrala. And is soon to be built in a narrow void between the buildings in the district of Wola, Poland.

"Keret House is said to have an interior that will vary between 122 centimeters and 72 centimeters, making it an extremely narrow crib. With a total area of 14,5 square meters, the new house will accommodate a workspace as well as a guest studio."

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Flat Light Poster

Flat Light Poster designed by Finn Magee for moss.

An image of a task lamp on a printed poster that lights up like the real thing.
Limited run of 50. 16.5” x 23.5”.

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Real Life Into Paintings

If you're first thought when looking at paintings by Alexa Meade is "What's so incredible about this?" then you probably think they were done on canvas. But thery're not! What makes Alexa Meade's technique so interesting is that rather than painting on a flat surface to make it look 3 dimensional, she paints on 3D surfaces to make them look flat. Each portrait is an actual person that looks like a painting.

Check out more of Meade's paintings here.

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Land Peel

Land Peel is a furniture developed by Japanese industrial design student Shin Yamashita from the Kyoto Institute of Technology. It is a flat three piece mat set from which a table, seat or rest can be made simply by lifting the panels. When done using, the furniture can be discreetly tucked away.

The flexibility of the lounge floor mat makes it ideal for all leisurely activities such as
watching television, studying, lying down, or reading a book.

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Newspaper Ballet Flats

Colin Lin used recycled newspaper to create environmentally friendly ballet flats that are crafted from recycled Chinese language newspapers that are woven into a lattice pattern, then dipped in plastic for weather protection and durability.
Buy them here.

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Varini's Optical Illusions

Felice Varini is known for creating illusions of flat graphics on 3 dimensional spaces. From a fixed viewpoint these graphics will look falt.

His latest project Cercle et Suite D'eclats takes on the challenge of working at a much bigger scale, the scale of a village. In this project, he superimposed perfect circles on a town called Vercorin in the Swiss Alps. From within the village, the graphics are fragmented and don't make much sense, but from a distance, the lines form a series of rings!!!

More of his work after the jump.

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Flat Lighting

A lamp that appears as a simple graphic icon.
Designed by Korean-based group DMO.

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