Connu sous le pseudonyme de Grand Chamaco, cet illustrateur mexicain propose des créations de « character-design » du plus bel effet. Avec sa dernière série Mucho Macho, il compose des personnages loufoques et colorées modélisées en 3D à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Product news: this spherical lamp by London designer Michael Anastassiades looks like it is about to tip off the edge of its base.
Tip of the Tongue by Anastassiades is a pedestal table light consisting of a ball-shaped lamp and a cylindrical base.
Made from mouth-blown milk glass, the light source sits right on the edge of the polished brass base.
Anastassiades has also designed spherical lamps strung between walls on fine cables.
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Le designer Frederik Roijé a imaginé cette série de luminaires déclinée sous le nom ‘Skylight Lamp’. D’une grande beauté, ces créations de plusieurs couleurs et de formes proches symbolisent le haut de gratte-ciels, proposant de rapprocher plusieurs modèles, permettant d’obtenir l’illusion d’un panorama urbain.
La marque Heineken a récemment présenté à l’occasion de son 140ème anniversaire The Sub, une machine de bière à domicile dessinée par le designer Marc Newson. Un objet au design rétro-futuriste inspiré des sous-marins qui sera disponible à partir du 1er trimestre 2014. A découvrir en images dans la suite.
L’abus d’Alcool est dangereux pour la santé. A consommer avec modération.
In a little over two years since launching, Budnitz Bicycles have carved out an impressive niche for themselves within the greater bicycle community. They’ve mastered the city bike. Each model—from the titanium step-through and beefy 29er, to our very own collaboratively designed…
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Focus sur le designer Nayef Francis qui a imaginé récemment ces meubles étonnants appelés « The Standing Table ». Disponible dans plusieurs formats, ces petites structures rotatives peuvent servir de mini-bibliothèque et sont à découvrir en images sur son portfolio et dans la suite de l’article.
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: the penultimate stop on our Dezeen and MINI World tour is Eindhoven. In our first video report from the city, co-founder of Dutch Design Week Miriam van der Lubbe explains how the small industrial town has become one of the leading centres for design and technology in the world.
“Eindhoven is actually a very small city compared to the big capitals in Europe or the world,” says van der Lubbe. “It’s a group of about seven villages that grew together into Eindhoven.”
It is also not a very pretty one. “The centre of Eindhoven really got destroyed [during the Second World War],” Van der Lubbe explains. “They built it up in the fifties and it became a really ugly city. In Eindhoven, it can only get better.”
Despite its size, the city has been a site for technological innovation since the industrial revolution, thanks almost entirely to Dutch electronics giant Philips.
The company was founded in Eindhoven in 1891 and, although it moved its headquarters to Amsterdam in 1997, its blue logo still adorns many of the buildings in the city.
Once Philips moved out, many people were afraid Eindhoven would become a “non-area”, Van der Lubbe says. In fact, the creative industries were quick to take advantage of the large amounts of cheap space Philips left behind.
One example Van der Lubbe takes us to is Strijp, a former Philips industrial complex that is now one of the central areas of Dutch Design Week.
“Strijp is a major part of Eindhoven centre actually,” says Van der Lubbe. “The owner of Strijp bought these industrial buildings and gave them to the creative people.”
An abundance of designers ready to take up these former industrial spaces graduate each year from Design Academy Eindhoven, which has gained a reputation as one of the foremost design schools in the world.
Former students include Hella Jongerius, Marcel Wanders and Tord Boontje and many graduates, such as Piet Hein Eek plus Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farrasin of Formafantasma, choose to stay in the city.
Van der Lubbe, herself a Design Academy Eindhoven alumni, shares a studio in nearby Geldrop with fellow academy graduate Niels van Eijk.
“It grew out of Philips, because they saw that design was an important aspect of products,” she says of the school.
“It used to be that as soon as people graduated they left. But now they’re coming back because they see that there’s something going on here that’s interesting.”
There is still an emphasis on science and technology in Eindhoven. Van der Lubbe takes us to the High Tech Campus on the outskirts of the city, where many technology companies are based, as well as Eindhoven University of Technology.
Having design, industry, science and technology in such close proximity is the key to Eindhoven’s success, says Van der Lubbe.
“There is a huge opportunity for Eindhoven because it has all these aspects in it,” she says. “It has the academic world, it has science, it has the creative world, it definitely has industry.”
“The potential of what is here is just starting to come out and there is so much more that can actually happen here. I really believe that.”
We drove around Eindhoven in our MINI Cooper S Paceman. The music in the movie is a track called Family Music by Eindhoven-based hip hop producer Y’Skid.
You can listen to more music by Y’Skid on Dezeen Music Project and watch more of our Dezeen and MINI World Tour movies here.
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Si vos journées sont éreintantes et que vous aimez les objets insolites, le studio Kawamura-Ganjavian a imaginé avec le studio Banana Things ce projet « Ostrich Pillow Light » : un coussin portable pour la sieste dans les lieux publics. Un concept présenté sur Kickstarter à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
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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Product news: this seating range by Australian designer Alexander Lotersztain features pill-shaped sofas and ottomans.
The Pill Range of sofas and ottomans has been designed by Alexander Lotersztain for his lighting and furniture company Derlot Editions.
The family of seats is made from foam around a wooden frame and is available upholstered in fabric or leather.
Curved backrests come in a different colour to the seats.
The furniture is designed for reception areas and informal workspaces, and can be positioned alone or grouped together.
Alexander Lotersztain also designed a range of angular lounge chairs and ottomans that can be tessellated in endless combinations of shapes and patterns.
Photography is by Florian Groehn.
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