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Maison&Objet 2014: each item in this six-piece stationery set by London designer Samuel Wilkinson has a soft faceted body (+ slideshow).

Samuel Wilkinson‘s Babylon stationery collection for design brand Lexon contains a pen, a pen pot, scissors, a stapler, a tape dispenser and an alarm clock.

“I wanted to create an aesthetic, tactile set of objects that work as well in the office as the home,” Wilkinson told Dezeen. “Each object has its own individuality but still looks coherent in a group.”

Made from a thick injection-moulded plastic in a matte finish, all the pieces feature vertical creases down the curvaceous forms that create multi-faceted shapes based on rock formations. Each design is comes in its own bright colour and the entire range is also available in slate grey.

“We were searching for an distinct surface treatment that could elevate the series and tie all of the objects together,” Wilkinson explained. “Through our research we came across inspiring images of rock strata, such as the The Wave, on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes in Arizona.”

The twelve-sided alarm clock has raised markings on the face to indicate the hours, with white hands for telling the time contrasted by a green alarm hand.

Controls and battery are stored inside the rear case, which is held to the face with magnets and cut at the end so it sits the correct way up on the desk.

A refillable ball-point pen that comes in ink blue is shaped to flow into its weighted stand.

The scissor handles are designed to be comfortable for both left and right-handed users. A tall stand completely covers the blades when stored away.

Coloured bright yellow, the stapler is moulded to hide the hinge at the back and can rest either horizontally or vertically.

Tape loads into the top of the green dispenser, which appears to squeeze around the wheel from the wide weighted base.

There’s also a ten-sided pen holder that includes a soft inner base to muffle the noise created when writing implements are dropped in. Photography is by Sylvain Deleu.

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London Design Festival: London-based industrial designer Samuel Wilkinson has designed stackable wooden seating evoking traditional school furniture for Decode London.

Above: Samuel Wilkinson talks to Dezeen about his Hatcham chair

The Hatcham chair was shown at this years London Design Festival as part of Decode London’s celebration of its fifth year collaborating with emerging London designers.

Composed of only six smooth pieces, the design features details meant to expose its construction. Wilkinson has used sand-cast aluminium leg brackets, solid oak legs and an oak-veneered seat and back to create a modern design which he told Dezeen was “based on school chairs and inspired by steam engines.”

The name Hatcham originates from an old east London casting foundry, originally called Hatcham Ironworks.

Cast lettering has been added on the inside of the leg brackets to illustrate the chairs’ industrial influence.

Samuel Wilkinson won the Design Museum’s Design of the Year Award in 2011 for his Plumen 001 lightbulb designed for Hulger.

See all our stories from this year’s London Design Festival here and see the ten most popular ones here.

See all our stories about Samuel Wilkinson here.
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London design brand Hulger has launched a mini version of its award-winning Plumen 001 lightbulb and it’ll be available at Dezeen Super Store from Friday.

Baby Plumen 001 follows the same sculptural form as the original, which was designed in collaboration with Samuel Wilkinson and won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award in 2011.

“The original Plumen has been around for a few years but is difficult to use with some shades,” Hulger cofounder Nik Roope told Dezeen. “The smaller version allows people to interpret it in new ways, either as a naked bulb or in combination with different shade options.”

Like all compact fluorescent lamps, Plumen uses 80% less electricity and lasts eight times longer than an incandescent bulb.

See all of our stories about Plumen here, and more of Samuel Wilkinson’s projects here.

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Here’s some more details from Hulger:

We’re delighted to announce the arrival of our new offspring, the Baby Plumen 001

Following the form of the Original Plumen 001 design, the Baby model shrinks into a more compact format. As either a single element or in series and clusters, the Baby Plumen 001 has all the character and dynamism the original but offers new options for shades and environments. The Baby Plumen 001 works like any other high quality low energy bulb, saving you 80% on your energy bills and lasting 8 times longer than a standard incandescent bulb.

The new compact form gives thousands of new options for shading and accessorising as the proportions work very well with many shades designed for incandescent bulbs. The Baby also works well in combination with the Original Plumen 001 as its forms echo one another, creating beautiful harmonies.

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Designed in Hackney: it’s day two of our Designed in Hackney showcase and the award-winning Plumen 001 designer light bulb by Samuel Wilkinson for Hulger is our featured project from the borough today.

We first showed Hulger’s prototypes of the low-energy CFL bulb back in 2007 and the product was launched in September 2010. It went on to win Design of the Year the following summer, when we recorded an interview with the designers that you can watch on Dezeen Screen. This project also features in our Dezeen Book of Ideas and you can read more about it here.

Wilkinson founded his own industrial design studio in 2007 and his other projects include a table with legs that are sharpened like pencils, a miniature garden that works like a living Tamagotchi and a large metal tree in the Swiss city of Lausanne.

He has a studio on Hackney Road in the south of the borough, close to the city farm and flower market, and Hulger’s office is just outside Hackney in the neighbouring London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Designed in Hackney is a Dezeen initiative to showcase world-class architecture and design created in the borough, which is one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games as well as being home to Dezeen’s offices. We’ll publish buildings, interiors and objects that have been designed in Hackney each day until the games this summer.

More information and details of how to get involved can be found at www.designedinhackney.com.

Product designer Samuel Wilkinson has created a miniature garden that works like a living Tamagotchi.

An application on a smartphone or iPad remotely controls the water, climate and nutrients reaching the flowers inside the flora terrarium.

Full spectrum LED lights replicate daylight inside the dome, which can be planted with different arrangements.

Biome is a response to the speed of life in the digital age and encourages smartphone users to take time out to care for their plants.

Samuel Wilkinson previously collaborated with Hulger on the design of the award-winning Plumen 001 light bulb (see our stories and videos here), which will be on sale at the Dezeen Temporium this Christmas.

Here’s some more information from the designer:

London based designer Samuel Wilkinson has designed a flora terrarium that links to your Ipad.

Biome is a flora terrarium that’s works a little like a live tamagotchi – with a smartphone or Ipad as its key to controlling its climate, water level and nutrients. The idea promotes ‘digital downtime’ by finding an alternative use for smartphones and encouraging their owners to consider a slower life. The control and nurturing of a real mini eco-system takes patience and care, contrasting with the immediacy of messaging or tweeting that is so characteristic of the smartphone generation. This smart garden has low energy lighting that can replicate sunlight and contains sensors that link back to the device when connected. It is designed to incorporate different types of environment – tropical, desert, even herb garden – and can be easily controlled by even the least green-fingered of users.

The design was developed for an exhibition titled ‘Slow Tech – Designs for Digital Downtime’ at trend agency Protein’s exhibition space last month. The exhibition was curated by Henrietta Thompson (editor-at-large at Wallpaper*)

Samuel Wilkinson Design Studio:

Samuel Wilkinson set up his industrial studio at the end of 2007 and a year later, in 2008 Wilkinson completed his largest work, L’arbre de Flonville in Lausanne, Switzerland. The work consists of a contemporary town square featuring a 16m sculptural metal tree surrounded by sculpted racine benches. Samuel’s recent design of the Plumen 001 light bulb (collaboration with Hulger) and the Handblown glass lamps ‘Vessel Series’ for DecodeLondon have won international acclaim. Plumen collected the grand prize from the Design Museum of ‘2011 Design of the Year’ in the prestigious Brit Insurance International Design Awards and  Vessel was nominated for Best British Design. Samuel Wilkinson’s commitment and enthusiasm to designing interesting objects is apparent in his work, always looking to add a fresh dynamic approach in either form or function.

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Brit Insurance Design of the Year winners 2011	Vessel Series 01-03 by Samuel Wilkinson	L’arbre de Flonville by Oloom & Samuel Wilkinson