Shinola opened their debut brick-and-mortar store in Midtown Detroit in June 2013 and this weekend they opened their second in NYC’s TriBeCa neighborhood. Designed by the Rockwell Group to inspire shoppers to linger, the spacious store features a small cafe and…
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Product news: magazines can be arranged at awkward angles within this sculptural magazine rack by Italian designer Marco Ripa.
Assembled from steel rods, the Who’s Next magazine rack comprises a cube-shaped frame with an additional rectangle dissecting its centre.
“It’s based on the overlapping of a cube and a parallelepiped,” explains Marco Ripa. “We are able to see only the essential structure, just what is necessary to create the shape, in a positive-negative game where you can’t tell what there is and what there is not.”
Magazines can be slotted between the two forms, or fanned out across the base.
Each piece is hand made and finished in a white powder coating.
Other magazine racks featured on Dezeen include one inspired by the crates used to store old vinyl records and one integrated with the arm of a chair.
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Product news: this modular shelving is built from tessellating coffin-shaped blocks that can also be used as stools or tables.
Designed by British designers Jack Godfrey Wood and Tom Ballhatchet for furniture brand Movisi, the Build shelving is made from a series of identical units that tesselate in various orientations.
The lightweight system is made from expanded polypropylene, which Movisi claim is completely non-toxic. “Build is stylish, functional, 100% recyclable and actually safe enough to eat,” says brand founder Natascha Stojanovic.
Triangular clips slot into the backs of each module to hold them together, making it easy to create various freestanding assemblies.
When dismantled, the shelving can be used as temporary seating, individual transport boxes, or as small tables.
The Build shelves come in either smooth black or textured white finishes.
Movisi previously launched an adjustable shelving system with British designer Peter Marigold, entitled Make/Shift.
Other dual-purpose shelving featured on Dezeen includes a brightly coloured table and chair integrated between the shelves of a bookcase and a bookshelf that has been combined with a lamp. See more shelving design »
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Spécialisée dans le graphic design, l’artiste danoise Maria Grønlund est une amoureuse des couleurs et nous propose une série des créations digitales réalisées à l’aide de logiciels de la suite Adobe. Une grande fraîcheur se dégage de ces images de fluides colorées à découvrir dans la suite.
This Kevlar rucksack with a built-in protective hood by Israeli designer Hila Raam is perfect for anyone who wants to go backpacking in a war zone.
Hila Raam, a recent graduate of Hadassah College in Jerusalem, created the Rhino Skin backpack as a form of personal protection that safeguards the wearer from the debris and impact of missile attacks.
Developed using Aramid, a bulletproof fibre used in military vests, the backpack is designed for people living in areas of the world where terror attacks are a part of daily life.
In the event of an emergency, the wearer simply pulls the side straps of the bag around their chest, hauls the protective hood over their head and lays on the ground for cover.
The shape of the backpack is formulated to protect the vital organs. Raam hopes its use will reduce the number of fatalities associated with terror attacks.
In the video Raam created to explain the project (above) she documents the number of rocket and mortar attacks in Israel in recent years points out that 60% of people were in the open air when the attacks occurred, leaving them with limited options for protecting themselves.
In the event of an air raid warning, people caught outdoors should lie flat on the ground to avoid shrapnel from exploding munitions. Donning the Rhino Skin backpack and hood would reduce the chance of injury, Raam believes.
“This unique bag pack protects the essential life or death body areas,” says Raam. “It protects the head, neck, back and the sides of the body. Most important the brain, heart, liver and kidneys are fully protected.”
Photography is by Noam Sharon.
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The AIGA National Design Center welcomes its newest exhibit Estrada: Sailing Through Design, by celebrated Spanish graphic designer Manuel Estrada, with a gigantic clock-like image on its glass windows….
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Antony Gibbon livre une création aussi design qu’elle est éco-responsable, Embryo. Des habitats recouverts de bardeaux de cèdre tout en courbes, suspendu à l’aide d’entretoises de façon à ne pas entraver l’évolution naturelle des arbres auxquels ils sont accrochés. Une façon pour l’artiste de reconnecter avec la nature.
A clever use of physics is seen in the Stable Plug. It basically has a push-pull feature that allows you to easily slide in and out a plug from the socket. A ‘stable’ design that eliminates problems associated with wall-sockets and plugs!
The Stable Plug is a 2013 IDEA Awards winner.
Designer: Liquan Li
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Dutch designer and Moooi art director Marcel Wanders explains why the design brand wanted to make a big impact at Milan this year in this movie filmed at Moooi’s Unexpected Welcome exhibition.
The Moooi show featured pieces from its Unexpected Welcome collection arranged in small room layouts, with giant portraits by Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf dividing the large warehouse space.
“I am 100% sure that we are by far the most expensive exhibition in this Milano fair,” Wanders says in the movie. “We might hopefully be the most impressive one.”
“For Moooi, this is the right moment to do something,” he continues. “This year we felt we were really ready to do more development.”
“We wanted to show that besides making iconic objects, we are ready to do spaces, to make things work together. To not only make objects, but homes.”
Wanders believes that the quickly developing economies in the east provide a new set of challenges and opportunities for companies like Moooi.
“The west has been educated in its own kind of rational way for a hundred years,” he says. “We arrive now to clients all over the world. These people don’t have this dogmatic education. You’re not going to sell them a grey sofa because you tell them it’s a great grey sofa.”
Wanders continues: “You have to give real value, give them something that they think is really vital to them, something valuable to them, something they really want to have in their hearts. And I think it’s a great opportunity for design.”
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Product news: these chandeliers by American lighting designers Rich Brilliant Willing feature glowing blobs of glass that dangle from aluminium rods.
The Gala chandelier was designed by Rich Brilliant Willing with a form taken from nature. “It’s like “full, ripe fruit hanging on a branch,” says the studio.
The bulbs are hand-blown by a local glass blower, before being hooked over aluminium rods using fixings that look like basket handles.
The rods come in three lengths – 42 inch, 72 inch or 114 inch – and can be combined with a choice of small, large or long bulbs that can be configured in either symmetrical or asymmetrical arrangements along the rod.
Gala chandelier was presented last month at New York Design Week, where Rich Brilliant Willing also launched a wall-mounted bedside lamp that can be swivelled to angle light where it’s needed.
Other lamps we’ve recently published include a set of pendant lamps with raised collars that direct light up to the ceiling as well as down to the floor and a duo of floor lamps that have shades almost identical to their bases. See all our stories about lighting »
Here’s a product description from Rich Brilliant Willing:
Full, ripe fruit hanging on a branch. The Gala Chandelier takes its cues from nature (and a RBW favourite snack!), with curvaceous, organic forms that sit alongside or above one another on a strong linear arm. Hand-blown glass bulbs are supported by a sleek aluminium beam, adding warmth and subtle character to any contemporary space.
Gala also conjures a festive celebration and it is this spirit that the warm orbs of light intend to offer. Basket like ‘handles’ connect globes to the beam and discreet powered cables connect the beam to the ceiling.
All RBW products are hand-assembled in the studio and with that as a production backbone, we thought to further explore artisan skills and craft in our 2013 collection. The Gala Chandelier’s most prominent design feature is undoubtedly its glass bulbs and for this, we sourced a local glass blower.
A technique developed in the middle of the last century BC, glassblowing requires a blow pipe and super lung strength. These tools allow molten glass to form into a bubble and from there it can be shaped however the blower sees fit.
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