In 1999, James Klein and David Reid of ceramics design firm KleinReid approached living legend Eva Zeisel about a possible collaboration. The fruits of their labor—limited edition archival prints and vases—now sell from Room & Board. Born in Hungary in 1906, Zeisel’s long career has inspired many artists and fans though the years.
For the KleinReid Collection, Zeisel designed two vase trios. The first features three curved porcelain vases hand-glazed in white, curved so that they fit together. The second, three vases covered in a yellow satin glaze, have retro-fresh appeal that speaks to KleinReid’s ethos for excellence in porcelain. The vases range from $69 to $150.
In addition to the ceramics, Zeisel designed a series of prints, “The Lovers’ Suite Collection.” Printed on 100% archival cotton paper, numbered and signed, and framed in white aluminum frames, the prints consist of four designs: Sprouts in orange, Swans in teal, Tulips in gray, and Wings in yellow. They sell for $300 a piece.
Produced at the KleinReid studio in New York, the prints and vases sell online from Room & Board, as well as at their stores.
Basé à Londres, voici le travail de Tim Simmons sur son portfolio. Spécialisé dans le milieu de la photo depuis 20 ans, il explore les environnements et la nature qu’il met en parallèle avec les paysages urbains de nuit comme de jour. De nombreux exemples sont dans la suite.
When Pantone announced that turquoise (Pantone 15-5519 TCX to be exact) was to be the color of 2010, I was more than excited. Turquoise has always reminded me of vacationing in laid back destinations such as Morocco or the American South West. Best of all, turquoise is a flattering color for all skin tones! You can go for a bold look by choosing something like the BDG Basic Knit Tank Dress from Urban Outfitters with a stylish black leather jacket and boots. If you’re looking to use turquoise as a pop of color, check out the Ribbon Chain Bag from Topshop as a source of inspiration. Of course, you can also look slightly outside the box to turquoise beauty products too. I’m in love with the Shu Uemura Painting Eye Liner in Vivid Blue that will make your peepers stand out in the crowd. Click on the slideshow to see more turquoise looks!
Inspired by old Nordic history, Midsummer festivals and love of family. This piece named Askur was first show-pieced during the Design March in Icelan..
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pI can’t help myself: This a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/memphis-milano/”Memphis collection/a was posted through the Core77 comments section in response to a href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/events/home_and_housewares_show_2010_bodums_bringin_memphis_back__16188.asp””Bodum’s bringin’ Memphis back,”/a and it is truly an amazing archive. You don’t even have to like Memphis to marvel at it. /p
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pThe entire collection has been assembled and documented over the past 20 years by Dennis Zanone, an avid Memphis collector in none other but Memphis, Tennessee. Pictures of all his pieces (both in and out of context) are posted to his flickrstream, which is a true treasure-trove of visuals and information./p
pAnd yes, in case you’re wondering, he emdoes/em have the Tawaraya boxing ring bed, which can be seen through the door in the top picture and below (also, notice the decidedly non-Memphis TV perched on the lower rightmdash;this makes me love it all the more). On this piece, he comments, “This is my bed and I feel like I live in a cartoon!” /p
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pSee all the images on a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/memphis-milano/”Flickr/a or join Zanone’s fan base at a href=”http://www.facebook.com/pages/Memphis-TN/Memphis-Milano-Movement-80s-Italian-Design-by-Sottsass-Group/213122709254?ref=mf”Facebook/a. For more primary information on Memphis, revisit this NYTimes article from a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/01/arts/art-memphis-milano.html”1986/a./p
pA few more from his collection after the jump. /pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/holy_memphis-milano_best_collection_ever__16268.asp”(more…)/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NDGpsNWot6gc7fU6jUjuExJS5dU/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NDGpsNWot6gc7fU6jUjuExJS5dU/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NDGpsNWot6gc7fU6jUjuExJS5dU/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NDGpsNWot6gc7fU6jUjuExJS5dU/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/p
pJust before the New Year, Helen Walters, Editor of Innovation and Design at Bloomberg BusinessWeek, wrote A HREF=”http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2009/12/come_on_designe.html” a blog post/A criticizing a (UK) ITimes/I piece which was in turn criticizing certain government-funded design projects as being a waste of bread. Walters’ central take was that the blame for this misconception was the fault of the designers themselves: “Designers need to step up and fight back and prove their craft is not a 20th century anachronism,” she wrote. This then sparked a bit of a debate:/p
blockquoteThe response was swift, spirited, and fell mainly into two camps. Some thought I was being deliberately incendiary and borderline irresponsible; others agreed that perhaps the design industry has an issue. Many quite rightly pointed out that “design” is a much larger proposition than the graphic design of this particular rebranding exercise, while there were numerous lively and articulate defenses of design as a process, not a style or an artifact. Companies such as Apple, Procter Gamble and BMW were cited as corporate leaders that clearly understand the worth of good design./blockquote
pPrompted by this, and in an effort to promote a better understanding of the design industry, Walters then rounded up IDEO partner Diego Rodriguez, RKS Design’s Ravi Sawhney and Deepa Prahalad, Angel investor Dave McClure, and pediatrician/preventive medicine specialist Dr. Jay Parkinson to collaborate on a list of “The 27 most influential designers and design thinkers making an impact on business today.” With some names you’ll recognize and others you’re seeing for the first time, the report is well worth a read and A HREF=”http://images.businessweek.com/ss/10/02/0201_worlds_most_influential_designers/1.htm” accessible here/A.br / /pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/business/online_design_debate_prompts_businessweek_list_of_27_most_influential_designers_16267.asp”(more…)/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1zVmMkp8tKL4dWe3x_V0JRUblBQ/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1zVmMkp8tKL4dWe3x_V0JRUblBQ/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1zVmMkp8tKL4dWe3x_V0JRUblBQ/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1zVmMkp8tKL4dWe3x_V0JRUblBQ/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/p
While traditionally just a cuddly staple in a child’s life, the teddy bear gets an upgrade with the addition of a built-in tote. Recognizing its comforting effect on kids, the Vermont Teddy Bear Company recently introduced the useful Teddy Tote, giving kids another excuse to bring their beloved bear everywhere.
The Teddy Tote looks like a standard stuffed animal but by unzipping its back, a convenient carryall bag unfolds—perfectly-sized for kids to transport coloring books, snacks and more.
“Made from scratch” in Vermont, each Teddy Tote comes with a lifetime guarantee. Launching July 2010, CH has one in advance to give away to a lucky reader. To enter follow us on Twitter and simply tweet @coolhunting with what you would do with a Teddy Tote and we’ll pick from entries received before 11:59 pm EST on 29 March 2010.
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pCCS student A HREF=”http://designfabulous.blogspot.com/2010/03/eco-coke-bottle-design.html” Andrew Kim’s Coke bottle redesign/A is an ambitious take on the iconic bottle, going square in the name of eco-friendliness. The new bottle shape would take up far less space in shipping pallets per bottle, and a push-up in the bottom large enough to accommodate the cap of the bottle beneath it would enable stacking. Said cap is offset for better drinkability. /p
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pAnother interesting design feature is that underneath the label, the bottle is ribbed so that it can compress like an accordion, taking up even less space when it’s time to go into the recycling truck./p
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pAs a former structural package designer myself, my first thought was that the strength needed for stackability wouldn’t jive with a crushable bottle, but then I realized the bottle could be designed so that it’s strong when surrounded on all sides–like when they’re being shipped en masse–but collapsible when the bottle is alone, absent the pressure of surrounding bottles. Good stuff, and even more impressive considering Kim is a freshman!/p
pvia A HREF=”http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2010/03/student-spotlight-next-generation-coke-packaging.html” the dieline/Abr / /pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/andrew_kims_square_coke_bottle_design_16266.asp”(more…)/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/slC9Sr7BwmAI84vba9CMvdPfREs/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/slC9Sr7BwmAI84vba9CMvdPfREs/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/slC9Sr7BwmAI84vba9CMvdPfREs/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/slC9Sr7BwmAI84vba9CMvdPfREs/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/p
Here’s the latest selection of work that has delighted us at CR Towers of late. First up is this charming website created by Johnny Kelly and Matthew Cooper in collaboration with Spanish agency Soon In Tokyo for Barcelona design school Elisava…
According to the press info, the site aims to “highlight the harder side of creativity – that successful designers are just as familiar with perspiration as they are with inspiration!”, which is a delightful image indeed. Kelly and Cooper have created 56 animated gifs which Soon In Tokyo have used as the basis for an interactive website, a print campaign and a series of posters and flipbooks. Other designers and artists are then encouraged to create their own gifs and add them to the site. Visit the website here.
BBH Asia Pacific has created this logo as part of a new campaign for the Singapore Tourism Board, titled YourSingapore. The logo, according to the press blurb, “represents the multi-faceted nature of Singapore”. The campaign also includes a website, yoursingapore.com, where visitors can create a personalised trip to Singapore, depending on their individual interests.
These two new spots for Orange, which focus on two of the mobile brand’s special deals, were created by Fallon in London and directed by Megaforce.
La Gaîté Lyrique film, directed by Yves Geleyn, production: Passion Paris
Director and animator Yves Geleyn has created this short film to help promote the new digital arts venue La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, which is set to open in December. There is also an interactive version of the film available online to play with here.
NY-Z is a 15 minute-long documentary about Jay-Z directed by Danny Clinch and funded by Absolut Vodka. The film traces Jay-Z’s relationship with New York City through interviews with the singer, and also shows footage from his September 11 concert at Madison Square Garden last year, which launched the Absolut Concert Series. It’s all a fairly glossy, corporate affair but does give a small insight into Jay-Z’s world, and is nicely shot in black and white.
Lipton Ice Tea ad, agency: DDB Paris, director: Michael Gracey, production: Partizan Paris
Finally we end with this frankly bizarre ad for Lipton Ice Tea, starring Hugh Jackman. The spot borrows heavily from Spike Jonze’s Weapon of Choice video for Fatboy Slim, starring Christopher Walken, and also the T-Mobile Dance spot (it’s by the same director as that ad). But somehow Jackman lacks the Walken cool sadly… but this does mean it makes for entertaining viewing…. just perhaps not quite in the way the brand intended.
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pa href=”http://www.studiokahn.com/”StudioKahn/a designs and manufactures emMetamorphoses/em, a series of three shape changing dolls that illustrate “Little Red Riding Hood.” The three dolls can nest, attach, fold and turn inside out to create many different combinations of narratives, not so unlike the concept behind Enzo Mari’s a href=”http://www.mcachicagostore.org/main/item_detail.php?pid=761cat=Kids”emFable Game/em/a. Swallowing and masquerading are the two primary motifs in the shape-changing qualities of the dolls (and the story, of course)./p
pBelow, the wolf is revealed when the sheep is flipped inside out. /p
pAccording to the studio, based in Jerusalem, “the project deals with the questions of identity and usability of the objects. Playing is a tool for asking these questions.”/p
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pEven better: the studio manufactures the dolls themselves from ceramic and silicon with a combined molding technology. Though they don’t take us through it step by step, they included plenty of pictures, which should serve as a good visual reference for makers: for example, note the temporary pour spouts made from clay and plastic in the image below. /p
pThere’s plenty more to observe and learn in their fantastic process images, posted just after the jump. /p
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