Tables that look like mutant spiders; shopping trolleys reinvented as chairs; a chandelier made from old pens the progressive, amusing, audacious and downright dotty collection of products included in CRAZY DESIGN illustrates the tremendous creativity and boldness at work in contemporary product design.

CRAZY DESIGN showcases the work of our leading product designers, picking out the most inventive, contemporary and fun work around and presenting it in an accessible, engrossing guide.

Well-known designers, such as Marcel Wanders with his delicate, beautiful Crochet Chair, are included amidst exciting new figures; designers like Joao Sabino, creator of the Keybag, which breathes ingenious new life into the computer keyboard. Each product is illustrated alongside a description that brings insight into the work, the creator and the story behind its design.From the functional to the inventive, the recycled to the dreamlike,CRAZY DESIGN features objects for all tastes and surrounds, whether ordinary or outlandish. Website listings guide you towarc more information on the designers and their products.

The top hat light, the boat bathtub, the mutant vase, the knee mug...you'll wonder how you ever lived without this stuff!

Reproduce

Create things

that are similar or

identical to a model.

Recycle

Salvage what

would otherwise be

wasted or unused

in order to make it

into something new.

Invent

Create or discover

something new

for a particular

purpose.

Dream

Give free rein to

your imagination,

become absorbed

in your wishes and

desires.

Transform

Modify the meaning

or function of

an object, give it

an entirely new

function.