1000 SHARDS

Check out this elegant and practical furniture design. The Corner Tree is a corner shelving unit designed to make effective use of space by emulating the aesthetic of a tree's growth. I wanted one the minute I saw it, but was disappointed to discover that the design, by Indian Abhinav Dapke, is just a concept and, as far as I can tell, has never been produced commercially.

Let's hope a canny design house jumps on this. It would surely be a big seller.

I find myself drawn to art and design inspired by the relationship between geometry and everyday life. Here's a great example: a T-shirt design by Phil Jones over at Threadless in which a boat disturbs the tranquil sea of horizontal blue lines. Brilliant.

You don't have to be a fragile artist to produce a masterpiece like this. Simply install IOGraph and get on with your normal computer business. After a while, open the software and save your visual tracking abstraction for others to admire. Any one say, "Sotheby's"?