Day-2; Friday-June-12-2015; Wooden furniture designs

I have been always attracted to wood as material for design objects. Certain types of wood definitely carry strong and often positive energy. For example, Cedar. Cedar is full of energy and solid power.
Since about ten years ago I use forks, spoons, combs and many other common things made from wood. I often travel to China for business and have a great opportunity to buy very good quality and very inexpensive wooden utensils there. I also use wooden plates and bowls for my food.
Here are few quick designs of wooden chair, made out of bent plywood. My uncle back in Russia has a small factory where he manufactures wooden furniture using his own technology of rapid curing of bent veneer, using radio frequency, which hardens epoxy between layers of veneer very fast and dries wood in record time.
Chair (or stool) presented below, was design in progression from a simple stool, made as assembly of four identical bent modules. Then I tried to add to it different elements to turn it into slightly different pieces of furniture with slightly different features.

Simple stool made using four identical modules

Now I added seating and backrest to the original stool

Here I replaced backrest of previous version for something a bit more stylish.

Now I added also armrests to the chair

And finally, I replaced armrests of previous version with a student desk writing surface.

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Day-1; Thursday-June-11-2015; Writing instruments design

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I was designing writing instruments - pens, pencils, markers, highlighters as well as toys and various consumer products and commercial products for years. And this was years ago. An idea of running a blog and creating a design challenge for myself was brewing in my mind for a while. The idea was simple - post on my blog one design concept for a product every working day, five designs per week. First, I though it would be cool to do this for a year. But soon I realized that I cannot commit to such timeline for simple and obvious reasons - I work and travel a lot and may not have enough time every single day to create design and post it on my blog. So, I decided to make few compromises - I will start by trying to post five designs per week - that is one design every working day - for one month at first. Also, this can be any type of product design and executed in any form I may find suitable or available - hand sketch(es), marker rendering(s) or possibly CAD drawing and/or photo-realistic rendering.
I will also want to hear from visitors their opinions and, possibly, suggestions for future designs.

As a starter, here are few of my designs from the past:

These are CAD renderings of pens created for NIKE license. Unfortunately, they never went anywhere beyond CAD designs. 

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These are three hand-drawn marker sketches of concepts of liquid ink highlighters.

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