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Competition: we’re giving readers the chance to win a pair of portable wireless speakers by Stockholm studio Nocs (+ slideshow).

Nocs integrated the speakers with AirPlay technology that allows users to stream music from a Mac, PC, iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad without the use of cables.

AirPlay is able to stream to multiple sets of speakers so music can be played in each room that contains a pair of NS2 Air Monitors.

With Kevlar-reinforced woofers and silk dome tweeters, the speakers are coated in rubber for durability and come in red, orange, yellow, grey, black or white. Competition entrants can chose their preferred colour.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Nocs speakers” in the subject line, stating which colour you would like to win. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

Competition closes 11 April 2013. The winner will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Here is some additional information from Nocs:

Nocs’ new NS2 Air Monitors are a set of Active speakers boasting AirPlay technology, allowing you to stream music wirelessly from your Mac, PC, iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad. Tap into the NS2’s powerful sound and turn your device into the ultimate music experience!

Sound characteristics

Finally – speakers that sound as good as they look. Fire up the NS2 and let their powerful, precise output turn your smart device/cpu into a musical juggernaut. The NS2’s deep, accurate bass, accompanied by well-balanced mids and crystal-clear highs, creates a rich, natural sound that will liven up any room in your home.

Materials and design

Designed in Stockholm, where mastery of contemporary minimalism is the norm, the NS2 look great wherever you put them. Each component, from the hand-crafted/rubber-coated cabinets to the Kevlar-reinforced woofers and silk dome tweeters, has been carefully designed to offer an exceptional blend of sound and durability.

Airplay

The NS2 is fully integrated with AirPlay wireless technology, meaning you can wirelessly stream music throughout your entire house. Enjoy your complete music library — every song, every playlist — in any room, at any time!

If the NS2 had a motto, it would be “hear everywhere at once.” For instance, say you have one set of speakers in your bedroom, another in your office, and a third in your living room. With the NS2, you can turn your lair into a formidable “house of sound” by streaming your music to multiple rooms simultaneously, thus guaranteeing that you’ll never miss a beat no matter where in the house you are. Just choose “Multiple Speakers” from the AirPlay menu in iTunes – then sit back and prepare to be have your house (and your world) rocked.

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Product news: Dutch design duo Daphna Laurens carved diamond-shaped grids into these wooden chopping boards and tables.

Daphna Laurens’ Grid Plank collection comprises four beech chopping boards in different sizes, with a smooth side for preparing food and a decorative gridded side for serving.

The Grid Table has powder-coated steel legs and an angular beech top, which is shaped to reflect the diamond grid pattern carved on its surface.

Other chopping boards we’ve featured include a wooden design with built-in compartments and one that doubles as the base of a ceramic bowl.

Other products by the same designers include a set of cork and aluminium storage containers and a leaning floor lamp that looks like it’s peeking through a wall – see all design by Daphna Laurens.

Here’s some information from Daphna Laurens:

Grid Plank

The shapes of all four ‘cut and serve’ Grid Planks originate from Daphna Laurens’ grid studies, one of many methods for the design studio to devise form and shape. Varying in size and grid, all planks are designed to be clear-­cut functional and aesthetically alluring, without adding unneeded materials or ‘handy’ accessories.

“Cut on the smooth, serve on the grid side.” Use the plank like this and it will persist in being neat and tidy for a very long time. Oiling the beech wooden plank once in a while, using grape seed or alternative thin non-­smelling oil extends its durable use. A ‘how to treat’ specification comes with every Grid Plank.

Four different shapes, about 40 mm thick beech wood and grips for easy handling. Grid Plank 300X300, Grid Plank 300X400, Grid Plank 300X525 (two grid types available), Grid Plank 200X600

Grid Table

While working on the design of the Grid Plank (Inventory collection) and Gitter (wooden dwelling for concept store YOU ARE HERE) the idea to create the Grid Table arose. Like the Grid Plank, the shape of the table originates from Daphna Laurens’ ‘grid studies’. Meaning that the grid determines the outer shape of the table.

Constructed from beech wood and powder-coated steel, this version of the Grid Table is sized: 200 X 120 X 75 centimetres. Both the steel frame as well as the tabletop is separable into manageable parts.

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Italian industrial designer Diego Vencato has created a collection of wooden textiles (+ slideshow).

The fabrics, called Wooden Mesh, were designed to transform wood into a soft and flexible material that behaves more like cloth, Diego Vencato says.

Thin pieces of wood were cut into small shapes and applied evenly onto a felt backing.

The patterns include neatly ordered triangles, sharply angled parallelograms and smooth-edged shapes that resemble a giraffe’s markings.

We’ve previously featured a carpet made from wood veneer offcuts and a T-shirt made from triangles of wood, while Icelandic fashion designer Sruli Recht presented garments made of wood in the menswear collection he launched earlier this year.

Other textiles we’ve featured include an installation of hundreds of fabric ribbons and fabrics printed with bleach to spell out coded messages – see all textiles.

Here’s some more information from the designer:

Wooden Mesh by Diego Vencato

A high-tech patented process to create the “wooden mesh”, a compound which combines a rigid material to a flexible support. The wood goes through a metamorphosis process to become a new kind of skin.

Transforming wood, making it possible that it not only could be flexible or soft, but it could also behave exactly like a cloth, was the idea behind the project.

To turn wood into fabric we had to break the continuity of its surface, which we obtained by dividing it into pieces. Wood, organised as in polygons, was then coupled with the fabric, which acts as a support and a binder at the same time.

This is how we created “Wooden Mesh”, a compound – realised through a high-tech patented process – that combines a rigid material (parent material) to a flexible support (secondary material).

The goal was to move beyond the hand-crafted production to create an industrial product that had a more suitable cost for the market. This was possible thanks to the major contribution of Sintesi Laser and Alberto Martinuzzo, founder of Albeflex and “father” of the soft wood. Now the two-dimensional surface of a piece of wood has been completely transformed to become as smooth and soft as fabric.

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Le réalisateur suédois Gustav Johansson a dirigé ce superbe court-métrage appelé sobrement « Everyday ». Produite par Camp David, cette création proposant une réalisation maîtrisée et une très belle photographie nous montre les détails et les moments de complicité d’un jeune couple au quotidien.