Designs like these are born when people are incredibly hungry and then go “Aha! I wish I could just heat my food here while waiting for the bus!” – boom! Samsung Cuisine is a conceptual all-in-one portable oven made keeping the Samsung design language in mind. It allows you to heat up your food anywhere anytime. Think of it as a lunch bag and a microwave having a high-tech kitchen appliance baby!
Samsung Cusine features the built-in inductive heating technology of Samsung that can go up to 300-degree F and it will heat up anything you put in the oven. Sullivan explains that this portable appliance is perfect for any trip – camping, hiking, or picnic!
The portable oven has clean lines, minimal form, a smooth surface, and that iconic pill-shaped button. It is divided into two sections: top and bottom. The top heating container is perfect to cook or keep your food warm, while the bottom container can be used to store fruits or desserts.
It not only warms your food anywhere, anytime but can also cook it on the go. Anything that goes into the oven or the slow cooker can be cooked in the Samsung Cuisine. So maybe put a roast in it before you set out on your road trip!
Laru Beya Collective is a non-profit organization offering free surf lessons and water safety education to Black and Brown communities in NYC’s Queens borough. At Rockaway Beach, “environmental racism prevents access and comfortability: from lack of protection from lifeguards to poor beach maintenance, not to mention a stark wealth inequality along the channel.” This, coupled with a generational fear of water apparent in Black communities, makes learning to swim and enjoying the beach particularly difficult for many BIPOC individuals—in fact, Black people drown at a rate 1.5 times higher than white people. This collective seeks to change that. Under the pioneering guidance of the Laru Beya family, young people of color are not obtaining better access to the beach, but are also creating a new generation of surfers. Find out more about their work on Teen Vogue.
Dezeen Showroom: with patterns that evoke historical styles of natural flooring, IVC Commercial‘s Rudiments carpet tiles are designed to add warmth to office environments.
The Rudiments collection of random lay carpet tiles can be used in isolation or mix and matched to create unique interiors.
Basalt is one of the Rudiments collection’s more bold patterns
Each design alludes to a flooring method of the past, such as the subtly textured Jute, which is based on the textile spun from hand-woven hessian.
Another is Teak, which is inspired by the light and shade thrown by the uneven heights of planks of wood arranged in geometric patterns.
Teak evokes light and shadow, as if through uneven floorboards
Basalt, meanwhile, references the random organic pattern of volcanic rock, bringing a bold texture into a room.
The most recent additions to the collection, Clay and Clay Create, have similar designs based on the texture of fine-grained soil.
IVC Commercial manufactures Rudiments in Belgium and is working towards developing a circular approach to flooring.
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This project is super-impressive, and I’ll go ahead and call this kid a genius. Akaki Kuumeri speaks Finnish, Japanese and English, works in business development for a security company in Tokyo, has a degree in engineering, flies drones and RC airplanes as a hobby and designs and sells 3D-printed puzzles on the side. He’s also what I’d call a natural-born industrial designer.
Kuumeri has perfectly mastered the art/science of 3D-printing flexures:
Coupled with his knowledge of remote piloting, he then designed and printed a joystick, a throttle lever and series of linkages that connect to an Xbox controller, providing a super-accurate UI for the Flight Simulator game:
I found it hilarious that he pronounces the filament acronyms as words, i.e. “plah.”
Another great application for this approach would be to enable those with disabilities, grip issues, etc. to play games or work controls that are currently too delicate for their capability level.
Kuumeri has posted the files for the gimbal component on Thingiverse, and sells some of the physical components of his system on Etsy.
After gaining my Bachelors of Industrial Design, many years ago, the diploma went into a box somewhere. I’m not even sure where it is in my house. And any ID job I ever held, no one ever asked to see the degree.
Why do we still print them out on pieces of paper, oughtn’t they be on something more useful, particularly for function-minded designers? I know some of you frame them, but London-based designer Liam Mead had a better idea:
“I printed my degree on a blanket so when I can’t afford to pay the bills, my degree can keep me warm ?? “
“If you rearrange all the letters in the name ‘Liam Mead,’ you can create the anagram ‘A dilemma,'” he writes. “Ironically, I consider myself to be a problem solver.”
Designed by Urquiola, the armchair is the second piece in Back-Wing collection for Cassina following a dining chair created in 2018.
“This comfortable armchair has the same distinctive good looks as the Back-Wing chair introduced in 2018,” explained the brand.
The armchair was designed by Patricia Urquiola
The chair has a solid wooden structure intending to showcase the “fine woodworking skills of the Cassina joinery”.
It was designed for ergonomic support and wraps around the user’s body, while its folded sides serve as armrests to ensure comfort.
It is available in a variety of colours
The armchair is available in various colours. Its seat is made from flexible polyurethane foam, which can be upholstered in leather or fabric from Cassina’s collections.
“This chair is elegantly finished with piping that defines and outlines the backrest of the armchair; ideal for furnishing corporate offices, lounge areas and lobbies,” said Cassina.
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Dezeen promotion: designers, architects and final year architectural students are invited to submit their work for this year’s Tile of Spain Awards, which celebrates architectural and design projects that use ceramics crafted in Spain.
Now in its 20th year, the annual event organised by the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers’ Association (ASCER) aims to encourage and promote Spanish-made ceramics across international architectural and design projects.
Previous winners include a centre for unaccompanied, under-age immigrants by Andrea Puebla Yubero and a gastro bar designed by Arantxa Manrique Arquitectes.
Atlantis Gastrobar by Arantxa Manrique Arquitectes won last year’s interior design category. Photo is by Adrià Goula
The Tile of Spain Awards aims to find outstanding ceramic projects, which are divided into three categories: architecture, interior design and a final degree project by an architecture student.
The cash prizes total 35,000 euros and there are two main prizes – architecture and interior design. The winners will each receive 15,000 euros, while the student winner of the final degree project will receive 5,000 euros.
The architects of Casa Ter received 15,000 euros. Photo is by Mesura and Salva López
The panel of judges for the Tile of Spain Awards is made up of international architectural and design professionals and will be chaired by architect Carlos Ferrater, founder of Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB).
In last year’s awards, the prize for the architecture category was scooped by Mesura Architects Studio for Casa Ter.
First prize in the interior design category went to Atlantis Gastrobar by Arantxa Manrique Arquitectes.
The Final Degree project was won by Andrea Puebla Yubero from CEU San Pablo University in Madrid. The proposal was for a centre for unaccompanied, under-age immigrants.
Casa Ter by Mesura Architects Studio. Image by Mesura and Salva López
Entry to the awards is free and submissions are being accepted from now until 28 October 2021. Projects must have been completed between January 2020 and October 2021.
For more information on the Tile of Spain Awards 2021 and to register your project, visit the award’s website.
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Mercedes-Benz and Geely are two unlikely automotive parents, but their child, Smart, has turned out surprisingly well. There’s a lot that could’ve gone wrong here, aesthetically speaking, but somehow these two brands have collaborated on a design for the Smart Concept #1 that is inoffensive and clean, and that manages to inject subdued stylistic flair without devolving into the look-what-I-can-do-with-CAD “style” that seems to get worse each automotive cycle.
“We have created a completely new design DNA that has the potential to establish Smart as the leading design brand,” says Gorden Wagener, Daimler Group’s Chief Design Officer. I don’t know if I’d go that far, but I do like the gestural aspects of the car, the soft transitions and the way they’ve rendered the headlights and taillights into a distinctive design element. I also like that they reined in the final renderings vs. what the initial sketch looked like.
That being said, the interior is a bit on the gaudy side. Does anybody really want brightly reflective surfaces on the inside of a car, particularly one with a full glass canopy?
Amusingly, Smart is referring to this as an SUV, so perhaps they need more scale elements in the images. Unveiled at this week’s IAA Mobility exhibition in Munich (formerly the Frankfurt Auto Show), the vehicle is reportedly “near-production,” though no performance statistics nor price has been announced.
Dezeen is teaming up with Salone del Mobile to live stream a talk on women in design and art institutions today. Watch live from 3pm Milan time.
Dezeen’s collaboration with Salone del Mobile will see us live stream a panel discussion in its Open Talks series, curated by Maria Cristina Didero, every day this week during Supersalone.
The second talk in the series will explore the experiences of women within design and art institutions.
Titled Women Within Institutions, the talk will be moderated by creative director and design consultant Tony Chambers.
Tulga Beyerle is the director of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
Beyerle became the director of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg in 2018, after acting as director of Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden.
Previously she was director of Vienna Design Week, which she co-founded in 2006, and also worked as an independent curator in Vienna and Glasgow.
After completing an apprenticeship in carpentry, she studied industrial design in Vienna and taught design history and theory at the University of Applied Arts there for seven years.
Lilli Hollein is the director of the MAK museum
Hollein is the newly appointed general director of the MAK Museum in Vienna. Until May this year she was director of Vienna Design Week, which she also co-founded.
Hollein studied industrial design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She has published writing on architecture and design in major international publications, and has curated annual contributions to Vienna Design Week, exhibitions on the Memphis Group and young Austrian architects, and Austria’s contribution to the 2007 São Paulo International Architecture Biennale.
Alexandra Cunningham Cameron is curator of contemporary design at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Cameron is a writer and curator who specialises in contemporary design. She currently acts as curator of contemporary design at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.
Cameron was previously editor-in-chief of independent arts journal The Miami Rail and creative director of Design Miami.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Financial Times, Vogue, PIN UP, The New Yorker, and other publications. She was also the organiser of Willi Smith: Street Couture, the first exhibition and monograph on the American fashion designer.
Design consultant Tony Chambers
Chambers is the founder of creative agency TC & Friends and co-founder of design and art platform OTOMOTO.
He is the editor and creative director of Phaidon’s monograph of designer Paul Smith, and the co-chair of Brainstorm Design, Fortune magazine’s design & business conference.
From 2003 to 2018 Chambers served as editor-in-chief and creative director of Wallpaper* magazine, and has also acted as art director of British GQ and art editor of The Sunday Times Magazine.
This year’s edition of Salone del Mobile, titled Supersalone, is curated by architect Stefano Boeri as a response to the coronavirus pandemic, which caused the cancellation of the 2020 edition.
Taking place in Milan in September rather than in its usual April slot, the special edition of the fair will feature products displayed on a series of parallel walls instead of in branded booths.
Salone del Mobile and parallel fuorisalone events will take place from 5-10 September 2021 in Milan. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.
Dezeen Showroom: made by Swedish brand Gärsnäs and sold through Suite NY, the Viva chair by designer David Regestam combines the comforts of a lounge chair with a stylish aesthetic.
Regestam set out to achieve maximum comfort with minimal proportions when he designed the Viva chair, which has layered cushions on its seat and backrest.
The Viva chair is designed to blend comfort with a stylish aesthetic
“With Viva, I wanted to make a chair that focused on comfort and durability, packaged in a beautiful and timeless design,” said Regestam, who is a designer at Wingårdhs.
“The aim was not to produce yet another in a long line of new chairs, but instead to create a unique chair with a great lifespan that you will cherish for a long time to come.”
Recycled blanket materials are used in the seat
Viva is able to be used on its own as a reading chair or lounge chair or combined into a set around a dining or conference table.
Its frame is made of wood, while material made from recycled blankets is used in the seat.
In New York, the Viva chair is exclusively available at the Suite NY showroom, where there are two samples on the floor showcasing different upholstery options.
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