Designer Annabel Inganni of LA-based Wolfum approaches her designs with the goal of balancing geometric, organic and traditional prints in her collection. Her patterns are created with the aid of a computer that gives her the…
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Remake du film original sorti en 1947, « The Secret Life of Walter Mitty » se dévoile dans une magnifique bande-annonce. Ce film, réalisé et joué par Ben Stiller, met en scène Walter Mitty, un homme timide qui s’imagine dans son esprit être le héros d’aventures extraordinaires. A découvrir dans la suite.
London designer Sebastian Bergne has created a nativity scene comprising nothing but rectangular wooden blocks.
Designed for the minimalistic modern home, the eight-piece set contains different sized blocks that are each painted a different colour to represent Mary, Joseph, the baby Jesus, three kings, a shepherd and the Star of Bethlehem.
“The project makes use of our learned experience from exposure to thousands of images, toys and Christmas cards over the years,” explains Sebastian Bergne.
A wooden box provides the stable and once Christmas is over the blocks can be slotted together into this box and stowed away until the following year.
Other products by Sebastian Bergne include a ruler for shooting elastic bands and a rubber Christmas stamp, plus last year the designer constructed a Lego greenhouse in London’s Covent Garden.
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Dezeen promotion: Tequila Don Julio asked the Dezeen team to put together a last-minute Christmas gift guide. Here’s a selection of designerly items that have impressed us over the past year and will be buying for our friends and families.
1. Baby Plumen by Hulger
The fantastically popular, award-winning Plumen low-energy bulb has a little sister! Designed by Sam Wilkinson, the new smaller bulb comes with both bayonet and screw fixtures and can be used in any compatible lamp or shade, or hung naked. See our video interview with Wilkinson.
We all have at least one of these in our homes and Marcus’s mum has requested one for Christmas this year. Plumen now also do a range of stylish pendants to hang the bulbs in.
2. Sugru
We’ve all become avid Sugru users over the past year: Wai used it to fix the strap on his weekend bag, Dan hacked his dodgy computer mouse cable and Marcus repaired his bathroom cord-pull light switch.
Sugru is a synthetic, self-hardening putty that can be moulded onto any object to customise or fix it. See some examples of how it can be used here. Watch our video of Sugru inventor Jane ní Dhulchaointigh explaining how she invented the product here.
3. Pottery by Ian Mcintyre for Another Country
Most of the Dezeen team already have one of these terracotta jugs – and those that don’t are asking Santa for one. Ian Mcintyre‘s pottery range for Another Country also includes a pinch pot, plate bowl and cup (top image).
The jugs were particularly popular in our Dezeen Super Store pop up this summer and they’re made close to the Dezeen office by Mcintyre, who’s based in Hackney, London.
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4. MY03 Hacker watch by Michael Young
We could hardly write a Christmas gift guide without including a watch. The MY03 Hacker, designed by Michael Young, is Marcus’ watch of choice at the moment (he has the gold one) and he can vouch for its reliability, durability and conversation-startability.
Watch our exclusive video of Young talking about the Hacker watch here.
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5. Nike+ FuelBand
Wear this device on your wrist and you’ll get fitter. By recording your daily movements, the Nike+ FuelBand makes you aware of your (lack of) activity and can genuinely help you lead a more active lifestyle. Marcus and Rupinder both swear by them and Rupinder enjoys showing Marcus how much more ground she covers in an average day.
Watch our movie of Nike’s global creative director Andy Walker explaining how the FuelBand works.
“Give the gift that shows you know”
This gift guide has been made possible by Tequila Don Julio‘s Elevate Your Holiday campaign. To share your gift ideas, use the Instagram and Twitter hashtag #showyouknow or visit elevateyourholiday.com
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Pour la période de Noël, la ville d’Hasselt en Belgique a proposé avec la marque Mooz cet arbre de Noël magnifique composé de 5000 assiettes et vaisselles en céramique donnés par chacun des habitants. Un rendu impressionnant appelé « Taste Tree » à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win a set of Stackable Snowmen or Happy Little Trees Christmas decorations, both designed by Fruitsuper Design (+ movie).
Seattle-based industrial and product design consultancy Fruitsuper Design has released both winter products just in time for the holidays.
One winner will receive a Stackable Snowmen set, which includes 12 solid hardwood stackable pieces that combine to create three different snowmen.
Mixing and matching the stackable pieces creates 81 possible snowmen, each approximately 15 centimetres tall.
Another winner will receive a Happy Little Trees set, which includes five powder-coated steel models of trees. Each tree is about 13-20 centimetres tall. Both of these wintery sets are available from www.fruitsuperdesign.com.
To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Stackable Snowmen and Happy Little Trees” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.
Competition closes 13 December 2012. Winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.
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Christmas shoppers in Madrid can stroll under glittering circles of LEDs designed by Italian architect Teresa Sapey (+ slideshow).
The Christmas lights were designed by Teresa Sapey for Calle Serrano, an upmarket shopping street in the Spanish capital.
Every year, Madrid’s city council asks a designer or architect to create festive street lighting.
Sapey used energy efficient LEDs to form unique combinations of pattern and colour in each circle.
She founded her architecture studio in Madrid in 1990.
We previously featured Christmas lights in the shape of stars and dominoes that were installed across Lisbon last year.
We’ve also reported on another outdoor lighting project in Madrid – an outbreak of illuminated silicone nipples stuck onto statues by guerrilla lighting designers Luzinterruptus.
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Here’s some more information from the designer:
Every single year, Madrid council asks some of the most important designers, architects or courtiers to make designs for Madrid’s streets. Teresa Sapey was asked to conceive Serrano Street’s Christmas lighting. Placed in one of the most luxurious neighbourhoods in Madrid, Serrano Street is well known for the high fashion designer’s shops.
It seemed to be a very difficult task, but Teresa thought this was a good chance to lighten up the street using very colourful and geometric designs. Her aim was to turn the grey and cold Serrano into a warm place, filled with colour.
Her designs have a countless amount of colours combined with circle shapes. Each one is different from the others, forming a sequence of drawings that can be seen from both sides.
This design concerns as well environmental conservation and ecology. Made by using LED technology, it is also sustainable and efficient, requiring less power and producing low energy consumption.
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Unsure what to ask Santa for? We’ve made a new Pinterest board full of suggestions for Christmas presents and stocking fillers. Check out Dezeen’s Christmas list on Pinterest »
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Sull’albero minimale di quest’anno ci vedo bene questi ornamenti in legno. Disegnate da Sara Huston e John Paananen e prodotte a mano dagli artigiani di Portland per Branch.
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