The TEMP Chair turns product-packaging into actual furniture!

The story behind the TEMP Chair is quite short and sweet. Hoyoung ordered a couple of plywood sheets from a carpentry store. The sheets came wrapped in woven straps, which Hoyoung unpacked carefully, orienting the plywood sheets in the shape of a chair before securing the straps back in place. Voila, that’s really all it took for Hoyoung to make the TEMP chair, or what I refer to as creative accidental IKEA furniture.

The chair’s unburnished design and shortcut aesthetic is exactly what makes it such an appealing piece. It really gives IKEA a run for its money, with a chair that’s literally flat-packed, easy to assemble and even disassemble. The chair’s packaging (the nylon straps) ends up being the very element holding the furniture together, giving you a unique seating device with zero wastage. The wooden planks come together to form a rather rustic looking piece of furniture, while the bright orange nylon straps give it a pop of color. A ratchet sits on the back, allowing you to tighten or loosen the straps – a feature that’s useful when you’re assembling or disassembling the chair. When you need to move, the straps help secure the wooden planks together, allowing you to flat-pack your TEMP chair and shift it around efficiently!

Designer: Hoyoung Joo

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Remember the shorts that used to run on Nickelodeon featuring talking bellies? They basically drew faces onto people’s bellies and moved the belly faces by sucking in their stomachs or puffing it out. Now you can do the same, minus having to draw faces on your belly, because you can just stick them on with these temporary tummy tattoos.

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The Talking Bellies Temporary Tattoos come with various shapes and styles for eyebrows, eyes, noses, and even mustaches. That way, you can create custom faces and have tummy conversations that will make you double up with laughter with others who have the same type of humor as you.

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Snoozebox: The Only Hotel in the World with No Permanent Address

Over the years, hotels have become more than just places where people sleep while they’re on business or on vacation. Rooms now have graffiti on their walls (like the Panic Room) and some aren’t really rooms anymore, but pods (like the Bubble Rooms).

Then comes the Snoozebox. It’s the world’s first completely portable hotel because it’s all fashioned from shipping containers. The Snoozebox can accommodate 40 to 400 rooms and only requires three days to build and set up.

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You might expect simple interiors for such simple exteriors, but luxurious amenities await you once you’re inside: flat-screen televisions, en-suite washrooms, wireless Internet connections, and daily replenishment of toiletries.

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[via Pop Up City]