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Vienna design duo chmara.rosinke created this wooden vanity stand for a local shirt tailor (+ slideshow).

Anna Rosinke and Maciej Chmara designed A Tailor’s Ritual to be used for fittings at the Wäscheflott tailoring shop.

The vanity stand comprises mirrors, hangers for clothing and a storage shelf, which all pivot around the wooden frame.

The floor-length standing mirror is used with a circular mobile mirror to allow the customer to check the fitting in the back.

One brass hanger is used to hang-up the mock-up shirt and a second is for the final garment. “Wäscheflott always tailors a trial shirt before making the final one,” said the designers.

Tailoring tools such as needles and pins can be stored on the brass shelf.

The design was commissioned as part of the Passionswege project for Vienna Design Week 2013.

The Passionswege project, literally meaning “pilgrimage ways”, initiates collaborations between young designers and traditional Viennese companies. Wäscheflott has produced bespoke tailoring in the centre of old Vienna since 1948.

Anna Rosinke and Maciej Chmara won the top prize at the inaugural NWW Design Awards at Vienna Design Week 2012 for their mobile kitchen design.

Other vanity items include a storage box and mirror hanging either end of a leather strap and a dressing table with hinged doors. See more furniture design »

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Curved elements attach under the legs of this wooden bench by Italian designer Andrea Rekalidis to turn it into a see-saw (+ slideshow).

Andrea Rekalidis‘ Twin Bench comprises a long plank and a pair of stable trestle-like legs, under which rounded bases can be added so the seat wavers back and forth.

The legs can be slotted into notches cut from the seat at each end, so the bench sways side to side, or in the middle of both long edges so it rocks up and down.

These changeable configurations are emphasised by the contrast between the dark coloured legs and the lighter seat.

Twin Bench was exhibited at trade fair Fiera Sun in Rimini, Italy, last week.

Other benches include aluminium seats meant to look like folded pieces of paper and street furniture designed for the V&A museum courtyard.

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Here is more information from the designer:

Twin is a modular bench with a social character. The main configuration of the central bench obliges anyone who sits to cooperate with a partner to serve as a counterweight on the opposite side, the front view evokes the icon of the scale, a symbol of fairness and equality.

In the others configurations Twin bench can turn into a swinging bench by adding the tracks or in a standard bench by moving the trestles at the opposite side, a dynamic object made to fit with different everyday life situations.

The joint between the seat and the stand is the structural core of the project, deliberately emphasised by the chromatic contrast of the components it add a visual character to the product.

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Voici Iconic, le nom de ce projet de livre imaginé afin de rendre hommage au design des différents produits d’Apple. Pensé par et pour les fans de la marque, ce livre retrace l’histoire et l’évolution de la société iconique Apple. A découvrir en images et dans une vidéo explicative dans la suite de l’article.

Mexican designer Liliana Ovalle has created a carafe and set of tumblers printed with fine black lines that overlap to create a moiré effect when the pieces are clustered together.

Each item in the Cumulo collection by Liliana Ovalle is decorated with fanned-out linear patterns that become finer as they radiate outwards, creating a cross-hatching effect where they reach round to the other side and can be seen through the layers of glass.

“The glasses and carafe acquire a more complex three-dimensionality when combined together,” said Ovalle. “As the patterns overlap in various arrangements, the accumulation of lines reveals hidden depths and densities.”

The prototypes were blown in borosilicate glass. They were exhibited at the Okay Studio & Friends exhibition in Ben Sherman‘s Mod_ular Blanc event space during London Design Festival last month, along with opaline glassware by Mathias Hahn and a circular mirror with a large brass weight by Hunting & Narud.

Having graduated from London’s Royal College of Art in 2006, Ovalle joined the Okay Studio design collective in 2011 and continues to operate from their space close to the Dezeen offices in Stoke Newington – see more projects by Okay Studio designers.

Ovalle also presented a series of clay vessels based on the geological phenomenon of sinkholes as part of a group show at Gallery Libby Sellers in London for the festival.

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Photography is courtesy of the designer.

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Mexican studio Agent has designed a concept for a transparent football that changes colour when it passes over the goal line.

What Agent claims would be the world’s first see-through football would employ sensors that detect kick force and travel speed, plus provide GPS information to track the exact position of the ball.

Electronic components embedded in its centre would communicate information gathered from the sensors to control stations in the stadium.

As the ball would be locatable relative to the pitch, lights in its core could be programmed to change colour if it goes out of bounds or into the goal.

A stabilised on-board camera could relay a ball’s eye view to the screens around the stadium.

The ball is designed in a flexible plastic, which would allow it to bounce in the same way as a standard design. “The flexibility provided by the materials emulates the bounce of an inflated pneumatic soccer ball, but offers the advantage of not losing air,” said the designers.

An internal web would provide the structure and a transparent spherical shell full of holes would form the kicking surface. This composition means the ball wouldn’t rely on air or need re-inflating after use.

We’ve also featured Nike’s ultra-light football boot featuring components made from beans and recycled plastic and news that a stadium in Brazil is to be equipped with a solar-powered roof for next year’s FIFA World Cup.

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