The use of copper in functional industrial design has been on the rise for some time now, especially since seeing it all over London Design Festival last September. We spotted six new products during this year’s NYC Design Week that prove even more designers are embracing the multifaceted,…
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Jing Zhang ha disegnato queste semplici ma efficaci infografiche per far capire il funzionamento di oggetto d’uso comune come cellulari e tostapane. Genio.
Product news: twenty-six cable ties make up this pendant lamp that London studio Vitamin is exhibiting at Clerkenwell Design Week.
The black and orange industrial ties are locked into place by a turned wood and spun metal component at the top and a steel cog at the bottom. The different diameters of these elements cause the ties to curve outward towards the base.
The lamp is currently on show at Clerkenwell Design Week, which concludes tomorrow, and will be available to purchase in two sizes later this year.
Dezeen Watch Store has a pop-up shop in the Farmiloe Building at the event, where we are presenting a selection of our latest and best-selling watches – more details here.
Other lamp designs on Dezeen include aluminium shades with softly angled edges and a table lamp made of seaweed.
Vitamin has also designed mix-and-match vessels built up from assorted materials and ceramic urban gnomes that we’ve featured.
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Visitors to the Afrofuture exhibition in Milan built light-up glasses from recycled materials at a workshop organised by Maker Faire Africa (+ movie).
The workshop was a taster for the larger two to three day events that Maker Faire Africa put on in African cities for local makers to exhibit and develop their designs for gadgets or products.
“The concept is that people come together to show their ad hoc inventions that they’ve made in their garages, basements or studios,” said Jennifer Wolfe of Maker Faire Africa, who organises the workshops.
“In Africa, the inventions tend to be focussed on items that solve immediate and fundamental needs – issues such as agriculture, health and electricity.”
At Afrofuture, a series of African-oriented design talks and activities, designer Cyrus Nganga from Nigeria helped visitors create their own versions of his C-Stunner glasses.
The decorative glasses are built from old spectacle frames and recycled wire, metal or other found materials.
Technology expert David Olaniyan was on hand to help integrate arduino microcontroller circuit boards with the designs so LEDs could be programmed to flash.
“We’re trying to bring together some of these emerging technologies with grass root strategies, which you need to couple togther in a place like Africa,” Wolfe told Dezeen.
Maker Faire is a global initiative that runs public workshops for designers to showcase their inventions and Maker Faire Africa has amassed a community of makers across the continent that have presented over 400 inventions.
Wolfe presented other projects championed by Maker Faire Africa during the event, including a generator than can produce six hours of electricity with one litre of urine and conductive woven textiles.
Maker Faire Africa has been running for five years and operates in Ghana, Egypt, Kenya and Nigeria, and has introduced 3D printers to Cairo and Lagos as part of its programme.
The organisation aims to help designers market their products and find funding, as well as introduce them to technologies that could make their items more useful and consumer friendly.
The Afrofuture exhibition took place at the La Rinascente department store in Milan during the city’s design week last month and was curated by Beatrice Galilee.
Upcycling discarded materials in African design was one of the themes that emerged from our Dezeen and MINI World Tour reports from Cape Town – watch Ravi Naidoo explain the movement in our movie.
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Leonardo Dalessandri nous propose de découvrir une vidéo qu’il a réalisé suite à son voyage au Maroc. Mêlant des images prises à Marrakech, Essaouira, Fès el Bali an et Casablanca, cette création dynamique et réussie « Watchtower of Morocco » est à découvrir sur la musique de John Adams – Grand Pianola Music.
If you’re exploring London’s Kensington area this week to check out what’s on offer at Chelsea Fringe—the alternative garden show that will be sprouting up all over the posh neighborhood from 18 May to 9 June—be…
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Continuing his curious exploration of alternative uses for animal bones, Portland’s Stephan Alexandr recently released his latest artistic creation—the Fangblade. Carved from alligator jawbones, the handy letter-openers still sport vestigial teeth to remind its user…
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Copenhagen designer Cecilie Manz has created a collection of aluminium lampshades with softly angled edges for Danish brand Lightyears.
The round Mingus shades by Cecilie Manz for Lightyears have profiles with four facets, giving them an angular appearance.
Each is composed of a matt-lacquered aluminium shade and a white or grey textile cord.
An acrylic fixture sits snuggly within the top of the lampshade, allowing a soft light to seep gently upwards onto the cord.
The lamps are available in two sizes and six colours including white, nearly black, very grey, pale moss, light celadon and dusty limestone.
Mingus can also be bought at Folklore, a north London shop that we’ve previously featured on Dezeen. Read the story here.
The lamps are named after American jazz musician and composer Charles Mingus.
Other pendant lamps we’ve recently featured on Dezeen include two monochrome lamps by Zaha Hadid, and a collection of small and colourful lamps made from recycled aluminium.
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Steel rings were moulded around a wooden chandelier before it was burnt away, leaving this latest piece in a collection of disintegrated furniture by Amsterdam-based Studio Markunpoika.
Studio Markunpoika founder Tuomas Markunpoika formed a web of rings around the original wood piece then set it alight to leave a fuzzy memory of the original object. “The hardest part was to find a suitable light source, and to fix wiring so it contoured the inside shape and didn’t interfere with the see-through aesthetics,” Markunpoika told Dezeen.
Commissioned by Gallery Fumi in London, the chandelier joins the Engineering Temporality collection of furniture that Markunpoika created as a student at Design Academy Eindhoven, inspired by the disintegrating memories of a grandmother struggling with Alzheimer’s disease.
The twelve-piece collection, which includes a cabinet (above) and chair (below), was nominated in the furniture category for Designs of the Year 2013. “When working on the other pieces of the collection I couldn’t help noticing how exquisitely the multilayered exoskeleton was interacting with light and movement,” said Markunpoika. “The chandelier seemed like a good next step.”
See more chandelier design on Dezeen, including one made from items that include plastic bottles and party-poppers and one made from 1243 spent incandescent light bulbs.
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Always a high point of our NYC Design Week, Noho Design District has fast become a destination for up and coming and established designers looking to introduce their latest work outside the conventional confines of…
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