Hasta La Ideas

The ôr lamp was designed with nomadism in mind and lives freely as part of your home, office or elsewhere. The unique stretched-cone shape makes variations in light intensity possible simply by repositioning the design. Furthermore, the light intensity is adjusted with a simple touch to any part of the sensitive shell. In the users hands, it grows brighter before dimming again. Simply set it down when the preferred brightness is achieved!

Designer: Alexandre Boucher

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Walls are peeled back to reveal meeting rooms at this office in Yokohama by Japanese design studio Nendo (+ slideshow).

The office, for digital marketing agency Spicebox, contains seven rectangular meeting rooms designed by Nendo to look like wooden boxes, each with a different size and colour finish.

“The firm’s name symbolises the ability to deliver surprises and delight, like a variety of stimuli that come tumbling out of a box,” explain the designers.

The chunky walls curve outwards to reveal glazed entrances for each room. Each space has an entirely white interior, contrasting with the dark floors and ceilings of the surrounding spaces.

Unattractive office devices such as photocopiers and rubbish bins can be hidden behind the meeting rooms, leaving the larger spaces free for rows of desks.

“Our idea was to make not only the boxes’ interior but also the area around them into an active office environment where people can easily work and interact,” says Nendo.

Furniture for the office includes the iconic Emeco Navy chair and Nendo’s own Ribbon stool.

Led by designer Oki Sato, Nendo also recently completed an interior for shoe brand Camper containing over a thousand ghostly white shoes and refurbished the womenswear floor of La Rinascente department store in Milan. See more design by Nendo.

Photography is by Daici Ano.

Here’s more information from Nendo:

Spicebox Office for Spicebox

The office space design for Spicebox, a comprehensive digital agency that works across strategic planning, interactive promotion and creative digital marketing, and is part of the Hakuhodo stable.

The firm’s name symbolises the ability to deliver surprises and delight, like a variety of stimuli that come tumbling out of a box, so we placed seven box-shaped meeting rooms of differing sizes and finishes around the office, all of which are entered by a wall that has been ‘flipping open’. Each box is ‘opened’ in a slightly different way, subtly connecting interior and exterior and shaping sightlines to create a spatial experience in which each box reveals itself as you walk around the room.

The flipped-open entrances turn the area around each box into a semi-open communication corner, and functional elements that don’t need to be on display like the photocopier, waste bins and refrigerator can be hidden behind the boxes. Our idea was to make not only the boxes’ interior but also the area around them into an active office environment where people can easily work and interact.

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Royal College of Art graduate Bilge Nur Saltik has designed dimpled glassware that creates kaleidoscopic effects (+ movie).

Pieces in Saltik‘s OP-jects collection are patterned with concave cuts around their lower portions, which act like a series of magnifying glasses and warp views through the glass.

When placed on a purposefully designed tablecloth covered in brightly-coloured triangles they create optical illusions.

Water contained within the vessels distorts the reflections further, so imagery is constantly changing while drinking from a glass.

The collection includes a carafe, tumbler and two different bowls. A set of rippled glass wall tiles were also created as part of the project.

Saltik studied on the Design Products course at the Royal College of Art and is exhibiting her glassware at Show RCA, which continues until 30 June.

Design Products course leader Tord Boontje recently announced that he will step down from his post in September after four years in the role.

More projects from this year’s Royal College of Art graduates include bicycle helmets made from newspaper pulp and tools for musicians to change lighting and sounds at their gigs while playing their instruments.

We’ve also published glasses that reference patchwork quilts by Nendo and colourful tessellating glass tables by Sebastian Scherer.

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The designer sent us the following info:

OP-jects by Bilge Nur Saltik

This playful series by Royal College of Art graduate Bilge Nur Saltik contains daily life objects with optical illusions.

Presented at Royal College of Art graduate show in London this week, the playful series contains glassware, wall tiles and a tablecloth to reveal this secret, magical and playful lenticular effect. The function of the objects triggers the effect of illusions and it reveals hidden visual secrets.

“I am manipulating the information brain receives by distorting the image with layering different materials. Playing with colour and geometrical patterns enhance the optical illusions. These objects designed to change the pace of our ordinary life. They will surprise you by unexpected change and distortion on what you see during simply drinking water.”

Glass pieces cut by hand to get concave cuts and sharpen edges. Different size cuts works like magnifying glass. They distort and multiplies the pattern underneath cause a psychedelic experience.

Bilge Nur Saltik is graduating from Platform 18 of the Design Products course at the Royal College of Art, where the show opens to the public from 20–30 June.

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