The adornments lining YVMIN’s Beijing studio tell a lot about their work. An iridescent heart hangs on the wall alongside a set of plastic heads of Greek statues, and…
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Plus connu sous le nom de Subblue, Tom Beddard est un artiste anglais fasciné par l’esthétisme et la complexité des figures fractales que le rendu obtenu en 3D. Le résultat donne « Fabergé Fractals », des images magnifiques et étranges ainsi qu’une vidéo à découvrir dans la suite.
by Laila Gohar All over the world, from Tokyo to Beirut, a handful of compelling food journals are being published. Here we bring you a filtered selection of foodzines that have an international perspective and offer a peek into a unique food culture. Whether you’re intrigued by the relationship between…
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Product news: Australian company DesignByThem has added a range of bright recycled-plastic chairs to its collection.
Like the studio’s earlier Butter Stool, the Butter Chair is made of 100% recycled HDPE plastic, mainly composed of milk containers and factory waste.
“We created the original Butter Stool in a response to the many plastic stools available today that use virgin non-recycled materials,” say designers Nicholas Karlovasitis and Sarah Gibson of DesignByThem.
“Although these stools are recyclable they are only adding more material to the recycling stream. That is why the Butter Stool and Chair are not only recyclable but also made from post-consumer recycled plastic.”
DesignByThem also offers a product stewardship program, where it takes back products to be either repaired, reused or recycled.
The chair is suitable for indoor and outdoor use, and comes flat-packed in a range of mix-and-match colours: yellow, orange, red, blue, grey, green, white and biege.
Karlovasitis and Gibson met whilst studying at university and formed DesignByThem in 2006. Their collection is now expanding to include the work of other Australian designers.
Photos are by Pete Daly.
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Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: British designer Freyja Sewell’s felt cocoons have gone into production and were on show in a Victorian former prison in London this week (+ movie).
Hush by Freyja Sewell is a felt pod constructed entirely from biodegradable materials, which users can crawl into to work or rest in private.
“By creating an enclosed space, Hush provides a personal retreat, a luxurious escape into a dark, hushed, natural space in the midst of a busy hotel, airport, office or library,” explains Sewell.
The outer shell of the pod is made from a single piece of industrial wool felt, while the internal padding is made from recycled wool fibres discarded by carpet manufacturers.
Hush is manufactured by Ness Furniture in Durham and was presented by Sewell at the House of Detention as part of Clerkenwell Design Week.
Also on show at Clerkenwell design week was a pendant lamp made from twenty-six cable ties and shelving by Michael Marriott.
Another pod-like chair we’ve recently featured is the Kenny chair by Raw Edges, which is made from a single loop of material.
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Freyja Sewell set out to create a private space within a publicworld, constructed from natural, biodegradable materials. Three years in the making, HUSH is now available for purchase.
Open plan offices and public buildings, CCTV, online profile sharing, cameras built into our laptops; never has it been easier for humans to connect, but what about when we want to withdraw? There are now 21 cities with populations larger than ten million, and it is predicted that there will be many more in the future. It is essential to continue to develop new ways of allowing people to comfortably co-exist in these increasingly densely populated environments.
By creating an enclosed space HUSH provides a personal retreat, a luxurious escape into a dark, hushed, natural space in the midst of a busy hotel, airport, office or library. HUSH provided a quiet space in an age of exponential population growth, where privacy and peaceful respite is an increasingly precious commodity.
The main body of HUSH is cut from a single piece of 10mm industrial wool felt. Wool is naturally flame retardant, breathable, durable and elastic; it is also multi-climatic, meaning it is warm when the environment is cold and cool when it’s warm. It is of course biodegradable and so won’t clog up landfill after disposal. It is produced sustainably from animals out in the open, with each sheep producing a new fleece each year. The internal padding of HUSH is made from recycled wool fibers, produced as a by-product of the British carpet industry.
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Questo è il tipico progetto che mi aspetto di trovare su un blog come Yanko Design: un’idea ingegnosa, magari non assolutamente originale, e che risponde a una precisa esigenza pratica. Questa gruccia disegnata dai designer Kim Mo-Sei, Kang Joon-Ho e Choi Yu-Lim (Coreani? A sentimento direi di sì) mi piace perché è comoda e intuitiva e la sua forma è oggettivamente la migliore possibile per un oggetto come questo.
La costruzione è piuttosto semplice: è sufficiente inserire una cerniera e una molla tra le parti orizzontali che reggono le spalle per rendere più comodo l’inserimento della maglia.
Non è un prodotto che ti cambia la vita, ma è sicuramente ben fatto.
Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: Irish designer Donna Bates’ rural upbringing influenced these lamps based on glass vats found in a milking parlour.
Having grown up on a dairy farm in County Derry, Bates referenced the collection jars when creating her Parlour Lighting series, which is now in production.
The capsule-shaped glass lights are clear at the top and translucent at the bottom to seem half-full of milk, plus each has measurement indicators in kilos and litres.
The pieces are handblown by the same manufacturers that used to create the jars for the dairy industry. “The craftpeople who make the glass jars are willing to make small runs of the glass with the ammendments that I need to make them into lights,” Bates told Dezeen.
The lights come in six shapes and sizes – as pendant lights with a blue, green or black frame and table lamps with either an oak or walnut hand-turned base.
The lighting was on show in a Victorian prison named the House of Detention at Clerkenwell Design Week.
We’ve also featured a pendant lamp made of cable ties and a shimmering installation of metal pixels from the event.
More dairy-inspired design on Dezeen includes a constellation of illuminated Chinese ceramic yoghurt pots in former bicycle factory and a building that resembles a block of Swiss cheese.
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A road less travelled – from milking parlour to design studio
Irish lighting and furniture designer Donna Bates, is launching her first lighting collection, Parlour Lighting at the Clerkenwell Design Week from May 21st – May 23rd. This new collection has been inspired by Donna’s childhood of growing up on the family dairy farm near the shores of Loch Neagh and makes special reference to the milking parlour receiving jars, which were used to collect the cow’s milk.
Each limited edition piece has been handmade to exacting standards in collaboration with the finest local craftspeople using the highest quality materials. “There is a definite movement towards design led craft and I am excited to be part of that trend. I feel passionately about design but equally so about supporting local highly skilled makers” explains Donna.
The Parlour Lighting range comprises three table lamps and three pendant lamps available in small, medium and large sizes. “The size of the Parlour Lighting range pieces have been largely dictated by the size of the milking receiving jars themselves, says Donna. “They are so beautiful in their own right that I have kept the milking scale on the side of each jar which was used to measure the quantity of milk produced and I have gently sandblasted the bottom half of the jar to symbolise the milk collected.”
A limited edition number has been hand etched on each individual piece for authenticity and individuality. “I would like people to approach the Parlour Lighting as they would a piece of art or sculpture as not only are they beautiful and functional but they also tell a story of bygone days and that has resonance with a lot of people”.
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Dutch creative agency The Stone Twins did away with the usual imagery and photos when asked to design this postage stamp, using only words to tell a short story.
Launched by Irish post office An Post, the stamp is intended to celebrate Dublin’s status as a UNESCO City of Literature, but The Stone Twins wanted to promote young literary talent rather than the city’s heritage.
“The design solution is quite unorthodox and avoids the usual visual cliches, such as images or quotes from the giants of Irish literature such as Joyce, Beckett, Yeats and Wilde,” they explain.
The completed stamp features a competition-winning story by teenager Eoin Moore that seeks to capture the essence of Dublin. The 200-word story is printed over a fluorescent yellow background on a standard stamp measuring 40x30mm.
Other unconventional postage stamps from recent years include one that consists of a tiny eight-page book and one with braille surfaces. See more stamp design on Dezeen.
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These tiny cups by German designer Hanna Kruse are topped with geometric wire grates to support and show off small objects like jewellery, flower heads or leaves.
Hanna Kruse was influenced by Ikebana, the traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement, when designing the little ceramic vessels.
She manipulated copper and steel wire into geometric patterns to form the tops, which can be opened by twisting them to the side.
Soe cups were presented as part of the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach exhibit at MOST in Milan last month. See all our stories about Milan 2013 »
Earlier this year we featured a series of ceramic vases based on Ikebana with tops that loop over the flowers to frame them.
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by LinYee Yuan With a tepid spring and uncertain weather, summer travel seems like a distant dream for many of us in NYC. But during Design Week, the exhibition “Here & There”—from the designers behind…
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