The Blue Carpet project uses innovative tiling to define a public space outside the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle. Designed by Thomas Heatherwick

It's not often we get inspired by the design of benches in the street, infact, most public 'furniture' is average, unexciting and unimpressive. However, at the weekend I stumbled across an area outside the Laing Art Gallery in central Newcastle with quite a difference. The design is unique, and makes you look.  How it works is that the tiles from the ground are 'peeled' up, to form benches..simple really, but yet effective. I plan to try and incorporate the 'peeling' of material from the ground into other interesting shapes/furniture, within the Exhibition design project I have going on in Uni currently.