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Our second story today featuring products presented like model kits is Italian designer Fabio Novembre‘s window installation for Tommy Hilfiger at La Rinascente department stores.

I Have a Lifestyle included Fabio Novembre‘s interpretation of a man’s wardrobe, with items from the autumn 2013 Tommy Hilfiger Tailored campaign displayed alongside items including a champagne bottle, headphones and a bicycle to create a men’s lifestyle kit.

The kit of parts was split into sections, with a mannequin and small accessories on one side, clothing and larger accessories in the centre, then sports equipment at the other end.

“The final result was a still-life composite of the essential items a man should have in his wardrobe inspired by Tommy Hilfiger’s quintessentially all-American aesthetic,” said Novembre.

Pieces were held in place by interlocking metal tubes and the whole installation was painted blue.

The display was installed at La Rinascente in Rome in September, before it was moved to the Milan store for October.

Fabio Novembre is pleased to announce a collaboration with Tommy Hilfiger for its Fall 2013 Tommy Hilfiger Tailored campaign to create an artistic window display. The unique installation will be revealed in the windows of La Rinascente in Rome from 10 to 23 September 2013, and then in La Rinascente in Milan from 8 to 14 October.

Titled “I Have a Lifestyle”, the installation is Novembre’s creative interpretation of a man’s wardrobe, incorporating pieces from the Tommy Hilfiger Tailored collection. The piece features metal tubing with interlocking pipes running throughout, each coated with navy blue nitro and acrylic paint.

An expression of men’s lifestyle, the final result is a still-life composite of the essential items a man should have in his wardrobe inspired by Tommy Hilfiger’s quintessentially all-American aesthetic. Novembre’s “I Have a Lifestyle” installation will appear in the windows of La Rinascente, Italy’s most renowned department store, in both Rome and Milan.

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This furniture collection by designer Silva Lovasová is based on tiny toy products that have been 3D-scanned and enlarged to full scale.

Silva Lovasová scanned dolls’ house furniture and other products, including a miniature tea set and a plastic peanut, and used digital software to expand the resulting 3D models to a functional size.

The smaller items were then moulded in porcelain, while the peanut and lamp were made from epoxy tooling board and an armchair and sideboard were CNC-milled from extruded polystyrene.

Inaccuracies and deformations inherent in the original products are retained and the marks made by the digital manufacturing tools accentuate the imperfect finish that these processes produce.

“The concept of the 1:1 collection was to work with digital technologies in such a manner that their natural character and options are admitted,” Lovasová explained.

The 1:1 collection was Silva Lovasová’s graduation project from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Zaha Hadid and David Adjaye are among twenty architects and designers who recently designed dolls’ houses to raise money for a children’s charity, while Ikea has launched toy versions of some of its furniture designs.

Photography is by Peter Sit.

The designer sent us this project decription:

Silva Lovasová – 1:1
Diploma project, May 2013
Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
Art Design Studio of Professor František Burian

In my diploma project I am concerned with the issue of digital technologies from designer’s – author’s point of view. These technologies are not only a way to ease one’s work, but in many cases they become an inspiration itself. The concept of the 1:1 collection was to work with digital technologies in such a manner that their natural character and options are admitted. To create an exact replica of miniature furniture in a human scale would not be possible without 3d scanner and CNC tools.

Mini furniture found in various doll houses is inspired by real elements of an adult world. However, deformations and disproportions often occur in the miniature. By bringing back the miniature furniture to a human scale the circle seems to enclose. When looking closer at the proportions and details of the furniture it becomes obvious that the forms created are completely new. New aesthetics is invented by copying found objects.

The collection 1:1 consists of objects of different materials. Through the smallest ones done in porcelain, bigger ones in epoxy tooling material and the biggest ones in extruded polystyrene. When creating the objects I deliberately kept the marks left after technological processes which objects had to undergo in order to be finished. I worked roughly. I did not care about the perfect manufacturing. In fact imperfect manufacturing is a way similar to how the miniature models are originally created. On a surface of enlarged objects one can notice visible signs of milling operation (these vary based on material used and its size), division lines, glued joints. This imperfect attitude is in contrast to digital technologies which are characterized by and valued for their perfection. Conjunction of CNC tools with handmade work is a natural process in my work.

Originated objects of the 1:1 collection are not cosmetized enlargements of bizzare miniatures. They are imperfect products created by the use of very accurate tools. They are classic components of furniture made of nonclassical materials. They are new forms created by copying those which already exist.

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Utrecht studio Today Designers has created a book of nautical tales that smells like the sea because it’s printed with squid ink.

Today Designers printed Naar Inkt Vissen (Fishing For Ink) in squid ink so it deliberately stinks of fish.

“It smells, stinks and reeks,” said the designers. “We are talking about a penetrating fishy smell here, caused by the squid ink with which the book is printed.”

The 48-page publication contains 20 sailors’ tales written in Dutch, accompanied by pictures from different illustrators.

The designers used one and a half litres of squid ink sourced from a fish auction on the Dutch coast to print 700 books.

The pages are screen printed with silk and bound by fishing wire using a Japanese stab-binding technique.

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These spoons shaped for eating specific snacks by Dutch designer Ineke Hans have to be popped out of a plastic frame before use.

Ineke Hans‘ five Special Spoons for Royal VKB have different ends for scooping or stabbing small foods.

The set includes a tiny spoon for sampling spicey sauces, a pointy fork for retrieving gerkins from the jar and a perforated scoop to fish for olives.

The plastic cutlery is packed like a model kit, so the user has to break each spoon out of their frame. Each spoon has a small indent, which allows it to balance on the rim of a jar.

Hans has also created a bowl to hold washed berries. The Fresh Berry Bowl comes with a perforated bottom to allow the wet fruit to drain and a matching saucer for catching excess water.

Dried food can also be stored in the bowl by using the saucer as a lid.

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Dutch Design Week 2013: design graduate Aagje Hoekstra has developed a plastic made of pressed insect shells.

Aagje Hoekstra took the armour of dead Darkling Beetles, which grow from larvae known as mealworms, to create the Coleoptera bioplastic that she showed at the Klokgebouw building during Dutch Design Week earlier this month.

“In the Netherlands mealworms are bred for the animal food industry but they transform into beetles,” Hoekstra told Dezeen at the show in Eindhoven. “After laying its eggs the beetle dies, so insect farms in the Netherlands are throwing away 30 kilograms of dead beetles every week.”

Before the beetles are disposed of, Hoekstra peels them so she is left with just the shells, which are made of a natural polymer called chitin that is also found in crab and lobster shells.

She uses a chemical process to transform the chitin into chitosan, which bonds better due to a variation in the molecular composition.

The material is then heat-pressed to create a plastic, with the oval-shaped shells still visible. “I wanted to keep the structure of the beetle in the plastic so you know where it has come from,” said Hoekstra.

She claims the plastic is waterproof and heat resistant up to 200 degrees centigrade.

Items Hoekstra has already produced from the material include jewellery and decorative pieces, but she hopes to develop the plastic for more practical applications. “In the future I want to make functional products such as plastic spoons and cups,” she said.

Hoekstra recently graduated from Utrecht School of Arts in the Netherlands.

She is one of several graduates experimenting with ways to make plastics from animal products that are normally thrown away, with other examples including electronic products made of crab shells and goggles made from fish scales.

She is one a number of graduates experimenting with ways to create bioplastics from animal products that are normally thrown away. Other examples include a

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