With bright colors and blockish designs, this furniture collection makes the office playful!

If the OFIS Collection by chmara.rosinke vaguely reminds you of LEGO bricks, Minecraft, or Jenga, let it be known that it’s completely intentional! There’s a common consensus that making objects curved allows them to look less threatening and more playful, but the OFIS shows that if done right, the opposite is just as true!

Constructed from timber, and colored with strictly monochrome hues, the OFIS Collection’s furniture promotes a sense of fun and relaxation. The collection, which includes a swivel chair, a kneeling stool, desk, chaise-longue, and standing luminaire, follows a somewhat Constructivist-meets-Memphis 2.0 design approach, and questions everything we know about form and its relationship with comfort as well as spaces. Even the name OFIS flouts the traditional spelling, showing how the collection looks at reinterpreting our “professional” and “serious” relationship with our office and its artifacts. The collection debuted after the COVID-19 pandemic rocked the world, as a way of making the office appear more benign. As these professional workspaces began infiltrating our homes and sacred spaces, designers Ania Rosinke and Maciej Chmara felt the term ‘office furniture’ needed an absolute makeover. With the OFIS series of furniture, chmara.rosinke hope to ‘soften the edges’ of the ‘hard’-working attitude we’re supposed to embody at work… even though the furniture pieces themselves showcase hard, blocky, geometric forms!

Designers: Ania Rosinke and Maciej Chmara of Studio chmara.rosinke

These Solid White and Black Jigsaw Puzzles are Pure Hell

Do you like to put together jigsaw puzzles? So do I. But I’m not sure I’d have fun assembling these daunting puzzles from Japan, which are made up entirely of a single color.

Every single piece in these puzzles is the same exact color – either white or black. To add to the difficulty, each piece is substantially smaller than a standard puzzle piece, so unless you’ve got tiny fingers, you might need to get out the tweezers to assemble them.

If you’re up for the challenge, or just want to make a friend deal with it, you can grab these in 1000- or 2000-piece sizes over on Amazon. The Black version is only available as a 1000-piece set though.

Wait! That’s not just any old white image up top – it’s a polar bear standing in a field during a blizzard! And this one is a black bear standing in the middle of downtown Manhattan during a power outage.

[via The Awesomer]