Note Design Studio extends Silo lamp collection for Zero

Stockholm 2014: Swedish collective Note Design Studio has added a floor lamp and triple pendant design to its collection based on grain silos for lighting brand Zero.

Silo lamp collection by Note Design Studio for Zero

The Silo Trio and Silo Floor by Note Design Studio debuted on Zero‘s stand at Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair earlier this month.

Silo lamp collection by Note Design Studio for Zero

“[These are] two logical follow-ups requested by architects, with the same industrial simplicity and clearness as its original,” said the studio.

Silo lamp collection by Note Design Studio for Zero

Three of the silo-shaped shades are connected in a row by a horizontal bar that runs through the top of each pendant to form the suspended light.

Silo lamp collection by Note Design Studio for Zero

The floor lamp balances on a slender stem, connected to the head by a hinge so the light source can pivot up and down. Its long cable flows out of the back of the shade.

Silo lamp collection by Note Design Studio for Zero

All variations are made from aluminium and come in an extended range of colours.

Silo lamp collection by Note Design Studio for Zero

The Silo lamp was originally launched as a pendant in Zero’s collection at last year’s Stockholm Design Week.

Silo lamp collection by Note Design Studio for Zero

At this year’s event, the brand also showcased spherical glass lamps that appear to be steamed up and a light that resembles a poster tube.

Silo lamp collection by Note Design Studio for Zero

Note Design Studio launched a sofa with a base that extends outwards to become a side table and a series of colourful ash tables at the fair.

Silo lamp collection by Note Design Studio for Zero

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TAF designs light shaped like a poster tube for Zero

Stockholm 2014: architecture studio TAF has designed a light that resembles a poster tube for Swedish brand Zero.

Revealed at this year’s Stockholm Furniture and Northern Light Fair, TAF‘s Poster light is designed to look like the kind of ordinary cardboard tube used to protect posters and other documents. The LED strip light even includes the ridges and cap found on a poster tube.

Poster lamp by TAF for Zero

“For a long time we have been interested in transforming universal and general products into something new and unique,” said TAF designer and co-founder Mattias Ståhlbom.

Poster lamp by TAF for Zero

“For us, keeping the aesthetic reference to something that we all can relate to is a way of making the objects more easily adopted,” he added. “We also found it interesting to work with the pipes concept because these kind of lamps are often hung from ceilings which have lots of existing pipes, like drainage and ventilation and so on.”

The Poster light is made from extruded aluminium and comes in black, white and the colour of cardboard.

Poster lamp by TAF for Zero

This is not the first time TAF, founded by Gabriella Gustafson and Mattias Ståhlbom in 2002 and based in Stockholm, has taken inspiration from cardboard. Last year they created offices for a Stockholm branding and design agency with walls that look like cardboard boxes.

Neither are unusual strip lights a first for Zero: in 2012 Swedish firm Note Design Studio were inspired by a circus trapeze to create pendent lamps for the brand and in 2011 TAF themselves designed strip lights based on the shape of a stretched rubber band for the company.

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Front designs misted-up Fog lamps for Zero

Stockholm 2014: Swedish studio Front presents spherical glass lamps that appear to be steamed up at the Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair, which opens today.

Front designs Fog lamps for Zero

Front‘s Fog pendant lamps for Swedish lighting brand Zero consist of a glass ball that is frosted on the bottom and gradates to transparent at the top. “With no apparent light source, Fog looks like a flaming planet, a mystical hovering globe,” said the designers.

Front designs Fog lamps for Zero

The spheres were sand-blasted on the inside to create the foggy effect and at first glance the light seems to shine from this cloudy base. “The light appears to shoot up from the bottom of the globe, emitting an ambient glow that rises like a magically fiery fog,” the studio said.

Front designs Fog lamps for Zero

In fact an LED light source is hidden in the socket, which illuminates the frosted glass so it glows. The effect is intensified in the dark, when the contrast between the top and bottom is amplified.

Metal fixtures are available in copper or powder-coated in black or white, and also with a black or white cord. The lamps are currently on display at the Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair, which continues until Saturday.

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Guessing Game #18

Probably the last Guessing Game for this year, so get cracking at it! What is this design? A hairband…or….

Today’s hint: The most important value in the number system is what we call it. However the absence of the obvious makes it possible for us to pose like The Thinker.

Wow I am good at riddles!

In any case, here is Zero, a concept based on “something suddenly becoming more noticeable in its absentia.” The absence of the sitting surface makes this furniture piece intriguing and experimental. Crafted from thermo-setting polymer with ‘Pearlescent’ colors, the seating has been designed in collaboration with MERCK and is limited edition.

Designers: Paul Sandip & Suhasini


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Wrapped Around My Finger

The Zero is yet another bottle packaging design that looks at extracting the very last drop of its contents. We saw a similar toothpaste design that used centrifugal force to drive all the toothpaste towards the mouth. The question here is, does this concept work or should designers put back their thinking caps and come up with something different? What do you say?

Designer: Yongwoo Shim


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Coca-Cola Zero Calligraphy

Le graphiste freelance vénézuélien Jose Luis Vivas Andrade, plus connu sous le nom de Joluvian, a imaginé une série de créations calligraphiques de toute beauté pour la marque « Coca Cola Zero Spain ». Différentes techniques et styles sont à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.

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Lighting collection by Zero

Product news: lights that hang from criss-crossing wires and a lamp shaped like a grain silo are among the new designs from Swedish lighting brand Zero.

Lighting collection by Zero

The latest lighting products from Zero include the Silo hanging lamp (above) by Stockholm’s Note Design Studio, which was inspired by the tapered shape of a grain silo and comes in white, black, yellow and green.

Lighting collection by Zero

Also included is Daikanyama (above) by Stockholm designer Thomas Bernstrand, an aluminium pendant lamp that is strung up along wires that zig-zag across the ceiling.

Lighting collection by Zero

Hatt (above) by Swedish designer Thomas Sandell is a pendant lamp with a wide shade made from white stretch fabric.

Lighting collection by Zero

Thirty (above) by London-based designer Samuel Wilkinson is a rotating LED fixture for ceilings and walls that turns 170 degrees and comes in black, white and yellow.

Lighting collection by Zero

A shell of sheet metal encloses a thin LED strip to create the Clark light (above) by German studio Böttcher+Henssler, which shines onto the wall to be softly diffused into the room.

Lighting collection by Zero

Finally, Cap (above) by Joel Karlsson of Swedish architects Krook & Tjäder Design is a simple circular fixture with a black steel rim and an opaque acrylic shade.

The new collection will be shown by Zero at Stockholm Design Week, which runs from 4 to 10 February.

We’ve featured lots of other lighting from Zero, including hanging lamps inspired by a circus trapeze and a lamp suspended in a knitted fishing net.

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Here’s some more information from Zero:


The sun is shining on Zero – its golden yellow catches the eye on many of our new additions for 2013. This includes a distinct sharpness in form and design, as well as fixtures that both stand out or blend in, depending on the chosen colour. Some are architectural in expression; others are highly graphical. Everything from stylised minimalism to voluminous fabric hats with noise-reducing effects. Inspired from lands far away, including Sweden’s wilderness, we warmly welcome them all to our range.

Hatt – Thomas Sandell

The Hat fixture originated from a desire to use light to create spatiality in a hotel foyer. HATT provides lounge suites with a roof-like structure, thus creating a more intimate atmosphere. Additionally, it is acoustically favourable due to the white stretch fabric that also gives the pendant its characteristic shape. HATT works extremely well in low-ceiling rooms, being just over 30 centimetres high. Details are painted white or yellow. D 800 mm.

Daikanyama – Thomas Bernstrand

The Tokyo district of the same name inspired Daikanyama; the pendant and cables create spatiality on a pleasant scale for both large and small areas. In zigzag, stricter or even slightly chaotic configurations between walls, ceilings and poles, with the electric cable running along the wire from one to the next. There are endless possibilities for this playful pendant with painted aluminium in standard colours: white, black, red, yellow and orange. D420 mm H 300 mm.

Silo – Note Design Studio

A small, iconic fixture inspired by the classical silhouette of a grain silo. This shape was refined during the design phase to finally become Silo – a minimalistic pendant with a distinct indu- strial character. Silo, with its colour range of white, black, yellow and green, can both step forward in a room and become a dynamic element or step back and blend into its surroun- dings. D 150 mm H 235 mm.

Thirty – Samuel Wilkinson

How can an LED fixture look great from all angles in corridors, public areas and stairwells? Answer: Thirty – a rotating LED light for ceilings and walls, which can be turned 170 degrees to meet the user’s wishes. The angled diffuser of microprisma provides softly filtered light that together with the rounded asymmetrical shape form a harmonic whole. In black, white and yellow, Thirty works very well in both formal and more playful configurations. D 245 mm H 170 mm.

Clark – Böttcher+Henssler

The Berlin-based duo experimented with creating an elongated shell of two bent sheet metal layers for a thin LED strip – and so Clark was born. Light is reflected by a smooth, white surface and shines on the wall to fade softly toward the ceiling and floor. Its pleasant light dispersion and elegance, without blinding its environment, makes it suitable for both public and private spaces. Clark is available in standard colours: black, white and yellow. B 350 mm H 160 mm D 100 mm.

Cap – Joel Karlsson, Krook & Tjäder Design

With its graphically clear shape, opaque acrylic shade and black-painted steel, Cap could be regarded as an easy-to-use tool. Keywords during the design phase: function, production and maintenance. The result is a practicable element for large and small civic-building projects, for outdoor and indoor use, on walls and ceilings, frontages, underpasses and stairwells. D 350 mm H 80 mm.

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Trapets by Note Design Studio for Zero

Trapets by Note Design Studio for Zero

Note Design Studio of Stockholm were inspired by a circus trapeze to create these pendent lamps with aluminium shades that appear to be draped over a wooden pole.

Trapets by Note Design Studio for Zero

Designed for Swedish brand Zero, the Trapets in fact have a wooden knob attached to either end of their shades.

Trapets by Note Design Studio for Zero

They house low-energy tube lights and come in two lengths.

Trapets by Note Design Studio for Zero

See more work by Note Design Studio here and more products from Zero here.

Trapets by Note Design Studio for Zero

Photos are by Mathias Nero.

Trapets by Note Design Studio for Zero

Here’s a little bit of text from the designers:


Toulouse 1859 — a young daredevil swings through the air on a wooden bar fastened to two ropes above his father’s swimming pool. That year, the curious hobby was first shown at the Cirque Napoleon in Paris, and the success was clear: the art of the trapeze was born.

Some 160 years later, Note Design Studios’ Trapets was born, with a shape born from the classic circus device. Here, the fitting’s shade rests lithely over the trapeze, spreading a pleasant light over the work station.

Trapets is equipped with T5 Eco and is available in two lengths 1400 mm and 1700 mm.

Title: Trapets
Client: ZERO
Dimensions: 1700, 1400 mm
Material: Aluminium, microprism, wooden knobs.

Zero Animation

Réalisé par Christopher Kezelos et produit par Christine Kezelos, Zéro est un film d’animation en stop-motion retraçant l’histoire d’un zéro opprimé dans un monde rempli de chiffres. Visuellement réussi et envoutant, ce film de 12 minutes est à découvrir dans la suite.



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Fisherman by TAF for Zero

Fisherman by TAF for Zero

Milan 2011: Swedish designers TAF have created this polypropylene light in a hand knitted net for Swedish design brand Zero.

Fisherman by TAF for Zero

The lights, called Fisherman, are based on old fashioned glass fishing floats.

Fisherman by TAF for Zero

The nets are individually hand knitted in Hönö on the west coast of Sweden.

Fisherman by TAF for Zero

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Photographs are by Jonas Lindström.

The following is from the designers.


Fisherman

“Glass fishing floats were once used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their nets afloat. (…) Many of them are still afloat in the world’s oceans, primarily the Pacific. Norway was the first country to start production and use of glass fishing floats around 1840, and they can still be found in local boathouses. Christopher Faye, a Norwegian merchant from Bergen, is credited for their invention. By the 1940s, glass had replaced wood or cork. Later the floats have been replaced by aluminum, plastic, or Styrofoam.” (Wikipedia)

Fisherman by TAF for Zero

Like fishermen’s glass floats, the lamp has also transferred to contemporary materials. And as a useful fishing tool has transformed into a romanticized, nigh-kitsch item used in fish restaurants, it is also time to move lamps into a new positive context. When placed indoors, with increased size and a new function as a lamp, we still recognize it, but look at it in a new way.

Fisherman by TAF for Zero

Rope-making is now a very rare handicraft in Sweden and it has been extremely hard to find the knowledge on how to knit this kind of round net structure. Finally, a small company, located at Hönö on the Swedish west coast, specialized in making rope- and net applications for the fishing industry, managed to do it. Each net is hand knitted using the simplest tools imaginable.

Fisherman by TAF for Zero

Object: Pendant- and wall lamp
Client: ZERO
Dimensions: Diameter 400 mm and 650 mm
Material: Polypropylene and Polyethylene
Light Source: 18W/Gx24q, Incandescent bulb
Design: Mattias Ståhlbom
Photo: Jonas Lindström
Date: 2011


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Rubber
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Stitch lamp
by TAF
Bottle
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