Zo Design Goes To The Birds

Time To Fly:


By Zo design, a cuckoo clock and a birdhouse, but their functions are swapped. The shape of a cuckoo clock becomes a birdhouse, and a birdhouse becomes a clock.
Buy either one here.


The Neighbird:



When the world get's more busy every day, even the birds have to hand in space.
Material: oakwood
Dimensions: 32cm x 26cm x 12cm (h x w x d)

Buy the Neighbird here.

And a really cool idea- 1-2-3 birdhouse for free:
A birdhouse you start....and the bird finishes it!





A postcard shows you how to make a birdhouse without any material.
When placed at the right spot the bird will finish it.

Material: paper

download the free postcard here.
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About Zo:


Above: Designers of ZO, are Tineke Beunders and Nathan Wierink.

Both still studying at the Design Academy Eindhoven.
'We don't want to wait with our design studio until we are finished studying, it is too much fun to wait. We started the studio in 2005, during our second year, the design 'tallow' was being produced at that time. From our studio in Eindhoven, we try to do the whole designproces ourselves. From the idea until the finished product. In this way, we keep the production small and personal.
Our collection consists of many different products. From bags to furniture and interior products.
Keep an eye on us, there is more to come!'

Cuckoo for Cuckoo Clocks

Above: The Traditional Cuckoo Clock, carved in the German Black Forest Style

What is a Cuckoo Clock? A cuckoo clock is a clock, typically pendulum driven, that strikes the hours using small bellows and pipes that imitate the call of the Common Cuckoo in addition to striking a wire gong. The mechanism to produce the cuckoo call was installed in almost every kind of cuckoo clock since the middle of the eighteenth century and has remained almost without variation until the present.

To learn more about the history of Cuckoo clocks, click here.

Cuckoo Clocks have come a long way since the Black Forest Bavarian-looking traditional clock.

This modern cuckoo clock in stainless steel and available in powder coated colors, the Diamantini Domeniconi by Pascal Tarabay was one of the first modern cuckoos on the market:



Barbero Design of Italy is one of the biggest manufacturers of modern Cuckoo Clocks.
Here are some of their designs:

The Gazebo:

The Kalimero:

The Auckland:

The Picchio:

The Nonsparatesulcucu:



Momento Italia carries most of the above clocks by Barbero as well as these below:

The Tu-Tu, designed by Mattia Cimadoro:





E Gamina's The Merlino:


Tip Top by Ilya Titov in maple or wenge:



Designed by Rnd_Lab, this comes in painted colors as well as natural wood:




The Silos, designed by G. Lacchetti


Many designers and manufacturers have jumped on the Cuckoo bandwagon, here are some more available for purchase below:

Modern Cuckoo Clock designed by Tobias Reischle, available at the SF MOMA store

Kikkerland's fun retro plastic chrome cuckoo, available at The Abstract Home;



Modern Cuckoo in Pink or Silver, no longer available-sold out at Chiasso:


The Digital Stag Cuckoo Clock by Fly-Pitcher:



This nice chrome cuckoo is now on sale at Chiasso for $148.00:

The all wood Cosine Cuckoo available here:



This Minimalist Beauty in Wood and Brass is designed by Reddish and is available here:



These two cu_cu clocks (as they are named) are available at Unica Home along with many of the Barbero clocks shown here:

And for the kids....

This fun series of modern colorful plastic Cuckoos called CooClocks have been designed for kids and have various animals. On the hour, a wacky farm or jungle character pops out of the doors and sounds with a ’Moo’, ’Neigh’, ’Bawk’, etc. These funny clocks are ideal as children’s clocks or for young at heart adults. Coo clocks are usable as wall clocks or mantle clocks. :



Coo Clocks are made by HeadsUp and are available here