Designed for cats, this multi-tiered tower creates a safe and fun spot for your pet to play!

Three Poles Cat Tower is a revamp of designer Jiyoun Kim’s earlier modular home cat tower, featuring fuller proportions and a cleaner layout.

Finding cat furniture that fits in with the rest of your living room can feel like an impossible feat. Stringy, carpeted cat towers don’t do anything to bring out sleek modern design elements and all scratching posts do is take up space on the living room floor. Back in 2020, Jiyoun Kim conceptualized a modular cast tower specifically designed for shorter cats and those with limb issues. Giving rise to its next-generation counterpart, Kim’s Three Poles Cat Tower has fuller proportions and a stronger base for cats of all heights and sizes.

Originally developed for cats and humans to co-inhabit the same living spaces without compromising interior design, Three Poles Cat Tower maintains the same midcentury flair that defined its predecessor and strengthened the overall build of the tower for cats to play around without fear of falling. Speaking to the redesign of Three Poles Cat Tower’s earlier model, Kim notes, “The overall proportion was carefully redesigned, and the lower metal base was strengthened, so it could be harmonious alongside the normal type tower while being easier for short-legged cats to use.”

Starting with the unit’s base, Kim pays tribute to the OG cat towers that featured thick, plush carpeting from top to bottom. Stripping it back to a tightly drawn, thin layer of dense carpet, the base of Three Poles Cat Tower is soft to the touch, without the stringiness of long, thick carpet covers. Three poles bloom from the base to create contact points for resting perches to latch onto, creating four circular bases that rise in staggered order towards the top of the tower, where a bell and string hang for your cats to poke at and pluck.

Designer: Jiyoun Kim Studio

Additional modules can attach to the top poles to create taller towers.

With a midcentury modern flair, the Three Poles Cat Tower fits into any contemporary living room with dark design elements.

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This modular cat tower is an understated design that blends in with your furniture!

It can feel impossible to find towers for your pet cat that fits with the rest of your living room furniture. Carpeted perches end up frayed or scratched and soon enough each one dons a top coat of fur– it can be an eyesore as part of an otherwise polished interior. To design a sophisticated cat tower that could fit into most living rooms, Jiyoun Kim Studio created Three Poles, a modular piece of cat furniture that fuses the feel of hardwood craftsmanship with sophisticated and minimalist interior design elements.

Designed so that cats and humans could co-inhabit the same living spaces, Jiyoung Kim Studio aimed to create Three Poles with durable building materials and sleek color schemes. Constructed from round birch plywood and three metal poles, each scaffold of Three Poles is removable and can be configured between the three poles to create perches for your cat to either rest or play.

In tribute to the classic cat tower, which was entirely coated in beige carpeting, Three Poles incorporate plush carpeting on three scaffolds, its base, and scratching post. Then, the additional scaffolds are constructed from birch plywood, supported by three metal poles that are painted the same brown hue as the plywood. One of the scaffolds constitutes a cat bed that can be removed and put on the floor to function as a traditional cat bed for naps after play.

Jiyoun Kim Studio created Three Poles for those who live with cats to have a cat tower that blends in seamlessly with the rest of their interior furniture. Ditching plastic material for plywood and a quirky design for a more stripped-down look, Three Poles works as an endless source of playtime for your pet cat without compromising the refined look of your living space.

Designer: Jiyoun Kim Studio

With modular scaffolds, each perch can be removed and attached to Three Poles to configure it according to your cat’s needs.

Hanging bells offer an exciting sensory experience for your cat to claw away at and play with.

A carpeted scratching post gives your cat an opportunity to sharpen its claws and expend some energy.

The removable scaffold doubles as a cat bed.

The multi-leveled cat tower gives your cat plenty of perches to climb up and rest when playtime is done.

Formed between three poles, this cat tower’s design is understated and refined.

Usetool’s minimal toothbrush holds a complete sterilization center!

The Usetool Toothbrush is a toothbrush holder that focuses on the sterilization of the device, whilst simultaneously enforcing the correct usage and storage of the tool that we use each and every day. The family of products consists of a toothbrush, a sterilizer and a holder, as well as charging dock that can cater to up to three devices. Each of these components carries an equally as beautiful design, where the rounded form is paired with monochromatic colors that evoke a sense of hygiene and cleanliness.

The toothbrush isn’t for exclusive use with the sterilizer; a magnetic mount can be placed on a neighboring wall and provides a location for your toothbrush to dry more effectively. Usetool Toothbrush isn’t just for use within the domestic setting, a translucent travel cover contains the family of products and ensures the brush stays in a hygienic condition.

Designers: Jiyoun Kim & Junyoung Jang for Usetool Company

Using the travel cover allows to keep hygienic brush condition.

It is more convenient to use a wireless charger that provides three charging spots when it is used as a family unit.

There is another way to use the toothbrush only without a sterilizer. Circle magnetic mount holds toothbrush for better drying condition.

A Light, Inspired by Light

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Lights are a fairly familiar sight on Yanko Design, but none of them can quite compare to the Lightning Lamp. The soft, rounded and simplistic form of the cloud combined with the angular, sharp and aggressive shape of the lightning bolt creates a striking design. The simplistic approach that designer Jiyoun Kim took to the design allows the lamp to become a subtle feature in any room.

Embodied within Lightning Lamp’s playful form is a more serious message that influenced this design. “Being struck by a thunder out of the blue sky” is an old Korean Phrase used to describe people confronting unexpected, catastrophic events. This lamp encompasses the message of overcoming unforeseen challenges throughout your lifetime by changing your outlook.

The combination of a unique design and a powerful message creates a visually stunning and meaningful lamp that would be a great addition to any room!

Designer: Jiyoun Kim

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Hair Dryer Square Dryer!

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Why do hair-dryers look the way they do? I have a few theories (I may be wrong, but let’s dig in anyway)… Based off the shape of the gun, instead of firing bullets, they fire hot blasts of air. I guess that pretty much explains the shape of the petrol pump dispenser too. Plus, I’ve always noticed that blowers (or dispensers) of any kind usually have circular mouths. Is it because our mouths take on a circular shape to blow efficiently? Who knows!

Anyway, there’s no reason for the hair-dryer to look the way it does. Here’s an image of the first ever hair-dryer by Alexander Godefroy and it’s easy to see that we’ve done little to give it a radical makeover. Well, all that changes with the Squared Dryer by Jiyoun Kim & Junyoung Jang. The new, unapologetically radical, slender hair-dryer is a boon for every dressing table. Unlike its bulbous, bulky ancestor, the entire hair-dryer is slender, foldable, and has the footprint of a small square box. The air blows out as a result in a vertical channel, allowing you to cover a larger part of your hair when held upright. Easy to slide into dresser drawers, or just as easily display proudly on top of the dressing table, the Squared Dryer even comes with a slick snap-on container for wire-management so that that unsightly cord isn’t all over the place. Plus, would you look at that absolutely delicious gradient on the base?! Good job challenging preconceived design notions, Squared Dryer, good job…

Designers: Jiyoun Kim & Junyoung Jang.

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You’ll be a Fan of this Fan

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I live in Los Angeles and, at this very moment, we’re in the midst of a massive heat wave. Unfortunately for me, my preference for style over function has left me with two beautifully tiny yet utterly useless fans! Sigh… if only I had a Conbox.

While many fans are trying to look… well… less fan-like, the Conbox makes the most of of the time-tested form. The upright unit has a minimalistic yet playfully cartoon-like look that won’t cramp your interior style. Better yet, it’s quick and easy to deconstruct and store under a bed or in the closet for those months you don’t need it!

Designer: Jiyoun Kim & Junyoung Jang

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I present to you… FAN.zip

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The Conbox channels this beautifully minimal, Muji vibe and to be honest, I’m absolutely loving it! When completely packed, it looks like a modern dimsum steamer, but it’s an entire table fan disassembled, packed neatly into a tiny little box! Designer Jiyoun Kim has a valid point when he says that fans are pretty much a seasonal appliance. You use them in the heat, and then come cold weather, it just sits in the corner gathering dust. Conbox is different that way. Its unique design allows it to be pulled apart and put together in a different orientation, allowing it to be packed. What a clever way of eliminating unnecessary extra packaging!

Designer: Jiyoun Kim

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