Après plusieurs focus sur Fubiz, l’artiste japonais Kumi Yamashita a présenté une nouvelle série de portraits, utilisant des outils et matières tels qu’un fil reliant les clous à plusieurs reprises pour former un visage. Des créations toujours aussi impressionnantes à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Dutch design agency Smool, led by founding designer Robert Bronwasser, presented an exhaustive collection of products for the home this past week in Milan as part of …
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Thibault et Marc Devauze ont imaginé ce concept « Motorrad » en déclinant l’image d’Audi et en imaginant comment ce constructeur pourrait évoluer sous la forme d’une moto. Un projet personnel très réussi à découvrir en plusieurs rendus dans la suite, déclinant avec talent l’identité de la marque.
L’artiste américain John Foster nous invite à découvrir « Sparkle Palace Geometric Table », une création de verre avec de multiples réflexions de lumières. La table, pensée sur la base d’une pyramide inversée composée de cristaux de verre colorés propose un rendu coloré des plus réussis à découvrir dans la suite.
Coup de cœur pour le travail de Tobias Tostesen basé au Danemark, qui a imaginé un énorme chandelier composé de près de 8000 briques transparentes de Lego. Ayant lui-même construit pièce par pièce cette oeuvre d’art, cette création est à découvrir en images et détails dans la suite de l’article.
This aid kit is designed to nestle between Coca-Cola bottles to bring medicine to remote locations through the drinks company’s vast distribution channels.
Above: image by Guy Godfree
The Kit Yamoyo is the idea of British aid worker Simon Berry, who realised while working in Zambia in the 1980s that Coca-Cola was available in even the most rural villages, yet simple medicines were not.
After Berry set up the ColaLife charity in 2011 to put the idea into action, design consultancy PI Global offered its services and came up with a robust container small enough to occupy the unused space between Coca-Cola bottles inside crates.
The AidPod, as it’s named, is currently available as an anti-diarrhoea kit containing oral rehydration sachets, zinc supplements and soap, but ColaLife believes it could be used to get tablets, condoms or other products to remote areas if the pilot project in Zambia is successful.
The AidPods are designed to benefit independent rural retailers by allowing them to make a profit on their resale. In the last six months, over 20,000 kits have been bought by retailers in Zambia to be sold at just under a dollar each.
Kit Yamoyo recently won the product design category of the Designs of the Year award, given annually by the Design Museum in London. The overall winner is due to be announced tonight.
Other category winners included a folding wheel for wheelchairs and a government website designed to be as intuitive and simple as possible, as designer Ben Terrett explained to Dezeen in a filmed interview earlier this year.
The winner of the inaugural Designs of the Year Award was Yves Behar’s One Laptop Per Child project to bring computers to children in the developing world – see all news about Designs of the Year.
We’ve featured a few other products designed to tackle health issues in developing countries, including a single-use disposable toilet and a bicycle-powered electronic waste recycler.
Images are by Simon Berry except where stated.
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A documentary about the life of influential fashion writer and editor Diana Vreeland, directed by her grandaughter-in-law Lisa Immordino Vreeland, topped the fashion category in this year’s Designs of the Year Awards (+ movie).
The film chronicles her rise from columnist at American fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar to editor-in-chief at Vogue and features interviews with fashion designers including Calvin Klein, Diane von Fürstenberg and Manolo Blahnik. Archive footage shows her reminiscing about key moments in her career and encapsulating highlights: “I wasn’t a fashion editor, I was the one and only fashion editor!” she exclaims in one clip.
Throughout her working life, Vreeland championed an alternative view of beauty by accentuating models’ flaws in editorial campaigns. She kick-started the careers of photographers, models and musicians deemed unconventional at the time such as David Bailey, Twiggy and Mick Jagger.
The cultural shift she instigated is documented through iconic photographs and page spreads from issues of Vogue during her eight years at its helm in the 1960s. Vreeland’s celebrity status and famous companions as well as the strained relationships she had with her family are also touched on in the movie.
The film beat nine other projects including Yayoi Kusama’s collaboration with Louis Vuitton to win the fashion category in the Designs of the Year Awards organised by London’s Design Museum. Winners in other divisions include a folding wheel and the redesign of the UK government website. The overall winner will be announced as the Design of the Year tonight.
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Last week in Milan we were pleasantly surprised to find Beijing Design Week presenting Design in Common—a selection of pieces from the capital city’s fair. With a focus on communal furniture and tea-drinking pieces in particular, the exhibition was proof of China’s far-ranging…
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Milan 2013: Achille Castiglioni’s iconic Parentesi lamp has been updated with a flat LED light source by designer Konstantin Grcic, who presented his redesign at Euroluce in Milan last week.
Created for Italian lighting brand Flos, which has produced the Parentesi lamp since 1972, Konstantin Grcic’s OK lamp comprises a flat LED disc that slides up and down a steel cable and rotates 360 degrees.
The design is an update of Castiglioni’s classic Parentesi lamp, itself a version of a 1969 concept by his friend Pio Manzù, who died before it could be realised.
The cylindrical weight hanging at the bottom of Castiglioni’s design has been replaced with a conical weight that’s easier to install, but the small spun metal ceiling rose remains exactly the same.
The name of the new lamp combines the round “O” shape of the disc and the first initial of the designer’s name. OK is available in white, black, yellow and nickel.
Grcic’s Medici chair recently won the furniture category in the Designs of the Year Awards, and he launched an accompanying chair and table this year in Milan.
In January he also unveiled a bench system based on the iconic Barcelona Chair by Mies van der Rohe – see all design by Konstantin Grcic.
Grcic was among several designers, including Marcel Wanders, Yves Behar and Tom Dixon, interviewed by Dezeen in Milan last week – see all our coverage from Milan.
Last year in Milan, Flos presented a lampshade by Paul Cocksedge that allowed visitors to stick their heads inside to view an animation.
Here’s some more information from Flos:
“It is a truly enlightening story of design evolution, the one of the Parentesi lamp. Pio Manzù’s original idea of creating a ‘light source that can slide vertically from floor to ceiling and rotate 360 degrees on its axis’ was adapted by Achille Castiglioni after his friend’s early death in 1969. A beautiful original illustration reveals the painstaking process of refinement that transformed the first schematic concepts into the final product. FLOS launched the Parentesi lamp in 1972 and it has been in continuous production ever since.
“Forty years later, much has changed. The world of lighting has seen a fundamental shift from conventional bulbs to a variety of new lighting technologies which in themselves are creating new opportunities for the design and manufacturing of lamps. Designing a lamp is no longer limited to working around a given bulb. Today, it means designing the actual bulb or light source. This challenged me to think of Parentesi, a lamp that celebrated the traditional bulb in the most effective and beautiful way. Would it be possible to rethink the Parentesi lamp once more and pass the Manzù-Castiglioni torch on to the future?” – Konstantin Grcic.
A light-emitting disk. A sun hanging from a wire. A luminous circle embracing space. All of these are OK, a flat circular shape with a wire that works like a rail and runs from the ceiling to the floor. The name incorporates the shape of the “O” and the first initial of its German designer, Konstantin. Once again, Grcic unites technological experimentation, design sensitivity and a taste for unadulterated shapes. His passion for technology and materials translates into design that speaks the languages of simplicity, innovative avant-garde and design history.
And so Grcic pays homage to an icon of Italian industrial design, redesigning the original light bulb as an ultra-flat LED surface with edge-lighting technology, directable over 360 degrees. The parenthesis-shaped tube of the original lamp maintains its vertical sliding function over the steel cable, but has now become a small rectangular box that houses the electronic components and a soft-touch switch.
The formerly cylindrical weight has been substituted by an easier-to-install cone shape. Only the small ceiling rose, designed by Achille Castiglioni, has remained identical: a beautifully shaped piece of spun metal. OK is available in white, black, yellow and nickel.
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