The best way to look at something old, in a new way, is to ask a child for advice. Tap into a child's ignorance of convention to go beyond the norm. So remove prejudices, expectations and assumptions to jog your own thinking into a more unconventional path to discover how something can be reapplied.
Barcelona based, SystemDesignStudio, explores design through experimentation to find new ways of occupying space. Bike tire tubes stretched between a couple of used furniture legs create this functional and handy shelving system. The ElasticShelf uses the tension created by the stretched tubes to keep books and other objects fixed in place.
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