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L’agence DDB Tribal a conçu la campagne de publicité du service de montage d’Ikea sur le principe du trompe l’œil. Récompensée par un Lion d’Argent, elle propose des meubles au design simple et épuré à l’image de la marque, facile à assembler mais qui présentent pourtant des anomalies. À découvrir en images.

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Single Thread Connectivity

Spécialisé dans le développement d’identités graphiques, le studio anglais The Potting Shed a imaginé une superbe série de visuels pour Affinity Wealth Management, montrant avec l’utilisation d’un seul fil formant diverses représentations en accord avec les valeurs de l’annonceur. Un joli projet à découvrir dans la suite.

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Lucite Sculptures by Phillip Low: Sculptural wonderment wrangling light across the color spectrum

Lucite Sculptures by Phillip Low


Artist Phillip Low returns to the market with four one-of-a-kind pieces. Hand-crafted from the high-grade acrylic medium Lucite, these geometric shapes manipulate their environment and dazzle with colorful light…

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Saidokā: Bluelounge’s new charging dock angles the iPhone for optimal use

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Charging your iPhone at home or the office often means the device is out of arm’s reach and chained to the nearest outlet. Realizing this, LA-based design studio Bluelounge—which has already garnered an impressive arsenal…

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Semblance 16 Print by Von: The British illustrator uses photopolymer technology to create a limited edition, contemporary portraiture print

Semblance 16 Print by Von


by Gavin Lucas London-based illustrator Von is no stranger to Cool Hunting, we’ve featured his distinctive monochromatic artwork several times in recent years, because it never ceases to impress us. His latest work, a limited…

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2014 Aston Martin Rapide S: It’s back and better than ever

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Aston Martin celebrates their centenary this year. One of their many achievements is the fastest and most luxurious four-door they’ve ever built: the 2014 Rapide S. A refresh of one of our favorite models, the Continue Reading…

Wood Architecture Now! Vol. 2: Taschen takes a look at the material’s widespread use in contemporary architecture

Wood Architecture Now! Vol. 2


As a global culture, our attitude towards architecture has relaxed in recent years, realizing that in most cases, it is not in fact permanent. With this, wood has experienced a resurgence in popularity for its adaptability and general sustainability—when acquired correctly. Advancements in…

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Food Huggers by Adrienne McNicholas and Michelle Ivankovic

Industrial designers Adrienne McNicholas and Michelle Ivankovic have launched a range of silicone caps designed to preserve leftover fruit and vegetables (+ slideshow).

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Named Food Huggers, the brightly coloured caps slip over half-eaten tomatos, lemons, apples or kiwi fruit to form a seal with the cut side, keeping the natural juice in so the food stays fresh for longer.

Range of four silicone caps fit snuggly onto left over fruit and vegetables

The upper edges wrap around the produce to keep the caps in place and the four different sizes overlap slightly to there’s a good fit for any item.

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There’s also an Avocado Hugger with a bobble that fits over the stone if it’s protruding or presses inwards if the stone has been removed.

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The soft caps nest neatly inside each other for storage and come in four different colour palettes.

Silicone caps by Food Huggers

The products are available through Kickstarter until Friday 13 July.

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Other clever kitchenware on Dezeen includes an extendable egg tray, an espresso maker for the microwave and silicone dishes for steaming food.

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See more stories about kitchenware »
Read our Food and Design report we produced with Scholtès »

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GIBS light made of bandages by Juyoung Kim of Metafaux Design

Last week we had a plaster cast made on a 3D printer and now here’s a light made out of a plaster cast.

GIBS light made of bandages by Juyoung Kim

Formed from hospital bandages used to make casts for broken limbs, the GIBS pendant light was developed by South Korean designer Juyoung Kim of Metafaux Design.

GIBS light made of bandages by Juyoung Kim

Kim produced the light in the same way that a plaster cast for a broken limb is made, soaking plaster-impregnated bandages in water and then wrapping them to form a shell.

GIBS light made of bandages by Juyoung Kim

However instead of wrapping the bandages around a limb, Kim used a glass belljar as his mould.

GIBS light made of bandages by Juyoung Kim

When the plaster hardens, Kim removes the thin structure from the mould and fits a lightbulb inside.

GIBS light made of bandages by Juyoung Kim

“This pendent lighting is made with plaster bandages, which we use in hospitals,” says Kim. “As it’s made by hand and finished differently, all the products have individually different light shading, and different details on the surfaces.”

GIBS light made of bandages by Juyoung Kim

Kim adds: “I think when the material of the product is interpreted in different ways that wasn’t mean to be, people will recover unexpected interest about the object, and it could be good starting point of a making conversation.”

GIBS light made of bandages by Juyoung Kim

Kim completed an MA Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins, London, in 2009 before returning to Seoul to start Metafaux Design, which specialises in using unexpected materials to make products.

GIBS light made of bandages by Juyoung Kim

“The meaning META + FAUX has its own paradoxical idea,” Kim explains. “As it’s pronounced as [métə-foʊ], which subsequently reminds the sound of ‘metaphor’ in homonymous, the all work and projects indicate some implicit signifiers in order to convey new perspective and distinctive experience to people.”

GIBS light made of bandages by Juyoung Kim

“It may be inferred as cultural crossover, or mixture of art and craft, and blowing the boundary between conventional tradition and modern design philosophy. Moreover, it doesn’t just demolish the formal and trends, but recreate and reinvent them through eclectic, experimental methods.”

Other lights made of unusual materials we’ve published include a desk light made of floppy rubber, a collection of pendant lights made of cable ties and lampshades made of seaweed.

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Water Dream Light

Coup de cœur pour l’excellent studio de design japonais Nendo qui a imaginé une installation combinant à la fois douche et lampe afin de créer un objet hybride unique. Dessiné par Oki Sato, ce projet Axor WaterDream est à découvrir en détails et en images dans la suite de l’article.

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