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A person sits in an airport waiting area wearing a large, grey, padded headpiece that resembles a cocoon. They wear a black shirt and blue jeans, with a suitcase standing beside them.

Fall asleep anywhere thanks to Kawamura-Ganjavian's amazing Ostrich Pillow

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Rob Alderson
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Date
19 September 2012

It may be at the second time of asking as this has been around before but there was literally no way we couldn’t post this amazing Ostrich Pillow by Key Portilla-Kawamura and Ali Ganjavian. I am blessed in that I can fall asleep literally anywhere thanks to a teenage holiday when I learned to sleep in essentially nightclub conditions in the caravan we were staying in, but if you aren’t so lucky then this is definitely the product for you. Shut out ambient noise and light and joy 40 winks anywhere, all the while looking both cuddly and futuristic – what more could you ask for?

A person sleeps face-down on a white desk, their head resting inside a large, grey padded cushion. They are positioned in front of an iMac, with a notebook and a blue origami crane nearby.
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Kawamura-Ganjavian: Ostrich Pillow

A person pulls a suitcase along a moving walkway in an airport. A grey travel pillow rests on top of the black luggage.
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Kawamura-Ganjavian: Ostrich Pillow

A person wearing a grey protective glove handles a small gold rectangular object on a wooden surface. Two adjustable lamps with round white heads provide bright, focused light on the object.
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Kawamura-Ganjavian: Ostrich Pillow

A person in a dark blazer holds a grey, felt-like travel pillow with a blue interior. In the blurred background, other people walk through a bright, modern transit terminal.
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Kawamura-Ganjavian: Ostrich Pillow

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www.studiobananathings.com/ostrich-pillow

About the Author

Rob Alderson

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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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