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In this dull Space Gray and Rose Gold world, Huawei’s designers are working on a great phone that doesn’t just perform well. It breaks the barriers of smartphone CMF. So much focus has been given to phone’s fronts that the back now seems like an afterthought. Huawei’s P20 treats the back with just as much importance, making it look as pretty as a picture because if you can set a beautiful wallpaper on your display, your phone’s back needs to shine through as well, looking just as visually pleasing as the front. Sorry, Google Pixel. You tried, but your Kinda Blue was rather insipid and unimpactful.

There’s a great deal of composition in the P20’s colors. The hues look remarkable, and you stop to notice the phone in its entirety, rather than how most phones use super-glossy finishes and creative lighting to showcase beautiful highlights on their bodies. Their colors usher in what I believe is a renewed Nokia Lumia movement (Nokia’s Lumia phones were famous for their dazzlingly delicious colors). These shades and finishes elicit joy out of me the way scrolling through Design Seeds would. There’s something refreshing about them and makes them look premium and great at the same time (my heart belongs to that purple-blue gradient). It’s a shame most of us would cover them with protective cases, however.

Designers: Huawei

L’artiste Andrea Minini, basée à Novare en Italie, et spécialisée dans les arts numériques a créé le projet « Mountains ». Une représentation de montagnes et de paysages au style graphique réalisée grâce à un outil sur Adobe Illustrator. Le résultat est captivant. Un travail à découvrir sur Behance.

At the center of this month’s Munich’s Creative Business Week, Germany’s largest design event offering 9 days of design discussions, exhibitions, and networking opportunities is the iF DESIGN AWARD 2018 celebration honoring 75 outstanding professional design projects of the past year. 

The awards ceremony grand entrance

The event took place in Munich’s massive BMW Welt building

A look into the awards ceremony

The projects featured as winners in this year’s iF DESIGN AWARD demonstrate not just the design work of value in the present, but how design work of today will transform our vision of the future. While in Munich celebrating the awards, we chose a few of our favorite 2018 winners we saw while we were there:

Lumi Personal computer

Bringing together the world of furniture and technology, the Lumi personal computer disguises itself as an elegant desk lamp while actually having the ability to a project an interactive computer screen onto your workspace or a large video projection on the wall or ceiling. 

Pixel flexible furnishing system

The Pixel modular furniture system by Bene opens up the possibility of your workspace turning from static workspace to dynamic creative studio capable of reconfiguration at the drop of a hat. 

DPT-RP1 Digital paper

Technology inspired by the analog, the DPT-RP1 was designed to mimic the feeling of putting pen to paper.

Bosch Gluey Glue Gun

Use a glue gun? Well, you’ve never seen one quite like this. The Gluey by Bosch not only is sleek and ergonomic in a way that allows for precision, it also comes accommodates a number of different color and glitter glues to bring your crafts project to a whole new level. 

Loop Luminaire

The Loop wall light shines thanks to its flexibility according to your task. Whether you use it to highlight a piece of art on the wall or next to your bed as a reading light, the lighting panel can rotate a full 360 degrees in on swift motion. 

DreamWear Full Face Mask CPAP

Clunky CPAP machines for those with sleep apnea are well overdue for a second look, which is why this DreamWear mask from Philips is a welcome redesign. The innovative element of this machine is its airflow that is reallocated to the top of the mask instead of the front, making for a less obtrusive build.

BionicCobot Pneumatic robot

As robots enter the mainstream, it’s hard not to see them being a bit awkward and, sometimes, clumsy. This BionicCobot with its pneumatic arm that allows for the most delicate or forceful of handling proves this perception as being totally wrong. Designed by Festo AG & Co, this robot was specifically designed not to replace us, but as human support helping us perform tasks with a machine that might otherwise be impossible to perform by hand. 

Mr. Pip Board Game packaging

A past Core77 Design Awards winner, we love the clever configuration of Pip Tomkins studio’s packaging for their Double Cross game redesign.

VR. Ulm flying experience! 

Imagine being able to fly! Thanks to the VR Ulm Experience designed by Demodern for Interactive Media Foundation, you don’t have to. This interactive VR experience allows you to tour the city of Ulm, Germany is an entirely breathtaking new way.

Gaggenau Restaurant 1683

The Gaggenau restaurant pop-up restaurant, constructed in Manhattan and design by eins:33, is part-epicurean foray-part-epic storytelling experience. In a short press description, it explains what it felt like to dine in this fully immersive culinary environment: “The experience starts with a trip 333 years back…the guests step through a curtain to see a waterfall which encircles them as they pass through a corridor of mirrors. The guests find themselves midst of a Black Forest setting, with the sounds of water and chirping of birds.” 

DREAM Ring

As designers continue to tackle the issue of women’s health in developing countries, we are given a number of clever and innovative new technologies; this includes IDEAfree x Havas Korea DREAM Ring. The innovative factor of this menstrual cup is its construction made from silicone and disposable sugarcane vinyl, which not only makes it body-safe but also eco-friendly.

Wearable Harness Two-Way Radio (71)

This two-way harness radio by Motorola Solutions allows for workers in high-risk working conditions situations to communicate hands-free with ease, which is not only convenient but also in emergency situations can be life-saving.

High-Risk Pregnancy Toolkit, Philips (72)

This set of birthing product solutions for high-risk pregnancies by Philips Design are low cost and allow for participation from both the mother and the healthcare provider. The most interesting part of the kit is the redesigned, battery-less stethoscope allowing the mother to hear in while the healthcare worker checks the heartbeat. 

WOODIEHamburg prefab student dormitory (75)

This student dormitory uses the pre-fab model to construct a building consisting of 371 apartments. The individual wooden modules were designed so that they can be connected in all kinds of ways according to the most appropriate usage scenarios.

Congratulations to all this year’s winners!

Learn more about the iF DESIGN AWARDS here and how you can apply for the 2018 awards cycle

Norwegian designers will present a range of new products, sculptural craftwork and timeless objects during this year’s Milan design week.

Norwegian Presence returns to Milan design week for a fourth consecutive year, with a show taking place in the Tortona district from 17 to 22 April 2018.

Hosted by a trio of independent and government-funded groups – Klubben, Norwegian Crafts and Design and Architecture Norway – the exhibition will explore “the making of modern Norway”. As with previous years, it will present some of the country’s best established and emerging design talents.

This year’s presentation focuses on the importance of collaboration, or what Norwegians call “felleskap”. It will also showcase the country’s skills in both craft and technology – and how the two can be fused together.

“Norway is a small country, where designers, makers and manufacturers need to stand united,” said Grete Sivertsen, the show’s project manager.

“This feeling of fellesskap or togetherness is an important driving force and motivation. This exhibition, like the Norwegian design industry as a whole, is all about sharing and lifting each other up to make something happen.”

A range of furniture, textiles, lighting and sculpture pieces will all be on show, split up into three sections: design, craft/sculpture and manufacture.

Those exhibiting in the design section are Domaas Høgh, Lars Tornøe, Marianne Andersen, Victoria Günzler, Martin Solem, Noidoi, Petter Skogstad, Sara Polmar, So Takahashi, Stine Aas and Vera & Kyte.

Here, prototypes will be shown alongside finished products, all of which the curators felt are “products to enrich homes and enhance lives”.

The craft area includes the likes of Lillian Tørlen, Pearla Pigao, Stian Korntved Ruud and Sigve Knutson – who had his own show in the 5vie district at last year’s festival.

These designers were chosen for their ability to “blend ancient making traditions with new technologies”. Their works will show how craft-like aesthetics can be created through modern processes.

The final area, named manufacture, will present some of Norway’s most successful and iconic design objects, which have helped the country to gain its reputation.

Elementa – established in 2012 – works with designers to create office furniture and will present its UN Divided System by Jonas Stokke and Øystein Austad.

Family-owned Vestre, which creates sustainable furniture for public spaces, will bring along its Atlas Bench, while Northern will show its Loud cabinet by Färg & Blanche, launched during this year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair.

Also presenting is Flokk – formerly known as Scandinavian Business Seating – which also owns product brands HÅG, RH, BMA Ergonomics, Malmstolen and RBM. The brand will showcase its RBM Noor chair designed by Scandinavian studio Form Us With Love.

New brand Objekt will launch at the show, with a tubular steel chair named Grorudstolen by Hans Brattrud.

Finally, Gudbrandsdalens Uldvarefabrik will present a range of its fabrics.

“You will meet manufacturers who have been making things for over a century, as well as bold new design brands presenting their very first collections,” said the organisers. “You will encounter things that are beautiful and intriguing, practical and playful.”

“Above all, you will gain an insight into the tremendous diversity of Norwegian making and the common thread that runs through it: in Norway, nothing is made alone,” they continued.

Norwegian Presence takes place during Milan design week from 17 to 22 April 2018.

Last year’s show explored the journey from maker to market in Norway, while 2015’s showed over 50 products from 46 Norwegian designers and artisans – ranging from contemporary prototypes to 1940s furniture.

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Un photojournalist travaillant pour le quotidien national The Himalayan Times, Skanda Gautam capture ces portraits colorés et très solennel des hommes sacrés d’Inde et du Nepal célébrant le Maha Shivaratri Festival. Tout en fumant de la marijuana et en couvrant leur corps de cendre et de peinture, des milliers de ces hommes sacrés offrent leurs prières au Shiva, le dieu hindou. Voir plus de l’incroyable travail de Gautam ici, Behance et Instagram.