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Designer: 37 Degree Smart Home Guangzhou 37 Degree Smart Home Ltd. Work: Coffee Table Classification: Furniture Date: Tuesday, 10 June 2025

37 Degrees

37 Degrees Music is a wooden coffee table with an embedded Bluetooth sound system. The sound system is activated by tapping a finger on the table top. Tapping allows quick Bluetooth connection, music playback and song changes. Music from various devices is supported. The table top also includes a wireless charging zone, where a mobile phone can be placed to charge. The design aims to enrich home entertainment in the living room, so that music of high sound quality can be enjoyed while drinking a cup of coffee.

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Designer: Kejun Li Work: Lamp Classification: Lighting Date: Monday, 9 June 2025

Mobius

The Mobius ring gives inspiration for the design of Mobius lamps. One lamp strip may have two shadow surfaces (i.e. two-sided surface), the obverse and the reverse, which will satisfy all-round lighting demand. Its special and simple shape contains mysterious mathematical beauty. Therefore, more rhythmic beauty will be brought to home life.

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Designer: Leila Ensaniat Work: Blender Classification: Home Appliance Date: Sunday, 8 June 2025

Wave

Wave is a portable personal blender designed for use in an office, a car or other places away from home. The compact body is about the size of a large water bottle and holds the complete blending mechanism. The shell is made of injection molded ABS, the blades are stainless steel and the window is tempered glass. A molded silicone cover with a flowing pattern gives a firm grip and conceals residue left on the glass. The small transparent window allows the blending progress to be checked. A brushless motor, rechargeable batteries and a USB charging plug are used.

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Designer: Cehao Yu Work: Public Realm Classification: Lighting Date: Saturday, 7 June 2025

Quadrant Arcade

The Grade II listed arcade has been transformed into an inviting street presence through arranging the right light at the right place. General, ambient illumination is used holistically and its effects staged hierarchically to achieve variations in light patterning that create interest and promote increased use of the space. Strategic incorporation for design and placement of the dynamic feature pendent was managed together with the artist so that visual effects appear more subtle than overwhelming. With daylight fading, the elegant structure is accentuated by the rhythm of electric lighting.

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Designer: Tong Yi Work: Bookend Classification: Furniture Date: Friday, 6 June 2025

Time Book

Time Book is a bookend designed for use on a desk or a bookshelf. Each bookend is made from a hand-polished crystal glass block. Special ink is screen printed on the surface and cured at high temperature. The high density of the crystal glass gives the bookend stability in use. The design is minimal in function, form and material, and resembles a book-shaped sculpture. The form presents the function clearly. The printed text uses the Quinsay Parto typeface. The letters MMXIX on the spine are the Roman numerals for 2019.

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Designer: Arvin Maleki Work: Speaker Classification: Consumer Electronics Date: Thursday, 5 June 2025

Black Hole

Black Hole designed on the base of modern intelligent technology, and it is a Bluetooth portable speaker. It could be connected to any mobile phone with different platforms, and there is a USB port for connecting to external portable storage. The embedded light could be used as a desk light. Also, the appealing look of Black Hole makes it so appeal homeware could be used in interior design.

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