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Extra travel items can be stowed in the giant pockets of this wearable luggage to get around strict hand baggage restrictions on low-cost airlines.

Engineer John Power came up with the Jaktogo after he was forced to check-in overweight hand baggage on multiple business trips, wasting valuable time. “Having to deal with this situation gave birth to the idea of Jaktogo,” said Power’s team. “It is a coat and it is a bag at the same time.”

Items that don’t fit into a small case with other travel essentials can be stored in the pockets when the bag size and weight are checked at the desk and before boarding.

The original long-sleeved polyester jacket has fourteen pockets in various sizes, which the designers claim can hold up to 15 kilograms of luggage.

The jacket folds down into a bag to put through airport security and store away while on board the plane.

Different straps allow the bag to be worn over the shoulder or carried by hand. Demin and leather versions are also available.

The sleeveless Ponchotogo and women’s Dresstogo that has storage in the skirt were recently introduced into the collection, both with ten pockets.

The Jaktogo team recommend the garments should used in bag form when possible. “We don’t recommend that you sit while wearing the Jaktogo because of comfort,” the team said.

Other similar products on Dezeen include Benjamin Hubert’s laptop bag that expands to become an overnight bag and Tom Dixon’s fashion collection for Adidas that packs away into integrated rucksacks.

We’ve also featured a sofa covered in rucksack pockets and another settee made of suitcases. See more luggage design »

More details from Jaktogo follow:

Jaktogo is on the market since 2010, making it the pioneer in wearable luggage technology. The inventor of Jaktogo, John Power, is an engineer who had to travel on a weekly basis because of his work and thus was trying to optimise his time at the airport. As low cost airlines started to take over the industry the many luggage restrictions they brought started to augment the transit times at airports. Power was always confronted with having to check-in his hand luggage because one or two extra kilos causing not only extra costs but also extra time having to wait for his luggage. It was also a common situation people to be stopped from boarding for the same reason. Having to deal with this situation gave birth to the idea of Jaktogo. It is a coat and it is a bag at the same time. The original Jaktogo is a long sleeve coat with 14 various sized pockets that can accommodate up to 15 kilograms of luggage.

Currently the Jaktogo has two new members – Ponchotogo and Dresstogo. The Ponchotogo is a sleeveless version of the Jaktogo with ten various sized pockets suitable for warm climates. The Dresstogo is a lady version of the Jaktogo with a balloon shaped skirt, again benefitting from ten various sized pockets. Both are made of the same light and durable polyester material and carry the same characteristics as the Jaktogo itself.

All our products are transformed to bag in three easy steps, giving you a choice between a shoulder bag and a short handles bag.

We advise our clients to wear the Jaktogo products as much as possible in a tote/bag form. We don’t recommend that you sit while wearing the Jaktogo because of comfort. It’s preferable that you put all hard items such as shoes, computers etc in your carry on, if however this is not possible the Jaktogo could accommodate that as well. We’d also advise when passing through security to present the Jaktogo in a bag form, as it should be during the flight.

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London Design Festival 2013: a range of cast iron cookware by British designer Jasper Morrison for Japanese brand Oigen has gone into production (+ slideshow).

Morrison worked in collaboration with 160 year-old Japanese cast iron manufacturer Oigen to create the Palma cookware range.

Palma includes cooking pots and pans with lids, a frying griddle, a kettle and a condiment server. The products are all made from cast iron and intend to follow the tradition of Oigen’s production techniques.

The cookware is on display this week at Morrison’s Library of Design pop-up at his east London shop.

The shop is open for visitors to browse 100 of the designer’s books and four products, including his Fionda chair for Mattiazzi, until 22 September.

Other products by Jasper Morrison featured on Dezeen recently included an outdoor chair for Spanish brand Kettal and the Please watch for fashion brand Issey Miyake.

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Photography is by Nacása&Partners.

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London Design Festival 2013: designer Philippe Malouin built an analogue 3D printer to create moulds from piles of sugar for this range of plates and bowls (+ movie).

The Dunes collection by Canadian designer Philippe Malouin has been commissioned for Staffordshire ceramics company 1882 Ltd.

Malouin’s custom-made machine features a box frame and a wooden turntable that is powered by a small motor and controlled by a computer.

Grains of sugar are poured into a funnel and fall onto a spinning cylinder positioned on the turntable beneath, where they pile up to form structures like cylindrical sand dunes.

The resulting shape was used to make a silicone negative, then cast in plaster and given to 1882 to produce in bone china. The final bone china pieces retain a sandy texture and have been finished with a matte glaze.

Originally Malouin tried using sand, however explained the material was difficult to use. “I originally started to try and ‘freeze’ these sand dunes by spraying resin onto them, but each time I would try and cast the resulting shape with silicone, the sand would stick to the cast and the shape would be altered,” said Malouin.

He later realised that sugar was the perfect substitute, as any grains clinging to the silicone could be washed away with water.

The printer created shapes that Malouin said could not be designed by hand or a computer and was perfect for creating plates and bowls. “All that was needed was to change the diameter of the sand dune in order to create a smaller dish,” Malouin told Dezeen.

“I was interested in designing the process that would produce the shape of the dishes. Not necessarily designing the dish directly,” said Malouin.

Here’s a video showing the making process:

The Dunes collection is on display – alongside Max Lamb’s crockery made from lumps of plaster – at the Sand & Clay exhibition at Paper Tiger, The Basement, 10 Exhibition Road, SW7 2HF until 22 September.

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Photographs are by Eva Feldkamp.

Here’s some additional information from the gallery:

Dunes by Philippe Malouin

Dunes is a stunning collection of fine bone china tableware featuring skillfully hand-crafted plates and bowls from one of the design world’s most applauded new talents. Slip-cast from plaster models, the collection maximises Malouin’s beautifully minimalistic patterns through analogue 3D printing. The analogue 3d printer made by Malouin, creates shapes that cannot be designed by hand or computer. Only movement, imperfection and randomised material deposition form the pieces. The shapes formed are carefully utilised and transformed into functional china pieces, highlighting the skill of the craftsman and creating a collection that wonderfully exemplifies its title of – Dunes.

About 1882 Ltd

1882 Ltd. is thrilled to announce their new collections for September 2013, fusing 130 years of traditional British heritage with fresh and contemporary new designs. The collections feature works from some of the world’s leading talents. These included an extended collection of ‘Crockery’ by Max Lamb, ‘Fragile Hearts’ by Mr Brainwash, ‘Standard Ware’ by Fort Standard and ‘Gashu’ by Alan Hughes and ‘Dunes’ by Philippe Malouin: all made of fine bone china, harnessing the tradition of the company originally set-up by the Johnson Brothers in the heart of the Stoke-on-Trent potteries in 1882. To this day, 1882 Ltd. remains a family business following its rebirth in 2011 by Emily Johnson and her father Christopher.

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Norwegian design firm Hunting & Narud is exhibiting a range of large pivoting copper mirrors with stone bases in London during the London Design Festival, which starts on Saturday (+ slideshow).

The Copper Mirrors Series by London based design duo Amy Hunting and Oscar Narud of Hunting & Narud consists of a range of polished circular copper discs that are attached to mild steel frames.

The pivoting mirrors can be spun 180 degrees and each mirror has a large grey stone positioned at the base.

Hunting and Narud have said that the mirrors were “inspired by the visual language and movement of the different elements of the solar system.”

The mirrors were originally conceived for Fashion Scandinavia at Somerset House earlier this year, during London Fashion Week 2013. They are on display at Gallery Libby Sellers in London until 5 October 2013 and feature as a pre-cursor to London Design Festival 2013, which is open from 14 to 22 September.

Other mirrors featured on Dezeen recently include two-way mirrors that reflect vinyl stripes covering the walls of an art gallery and a huge mirror installation where people appear to be scaling the walls of a London townhouse.

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Photographs are by Gideon Hart, courtesy of Gallery Libby Sellers.

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Product news: design studio Kawamura-Ganjavian is now producing a smaller version of its squishy headpiece for napping on the go for children (+ slideshow).

Spain and Switzerland-based studio Kawamura-Ganjavian have scaled down their Ostrich Pillows for ad-hoc snoozing to be suitable for children aged six and over.

Originally funded on Kickstarter, the padded grey helmets are designed to make sleeping at the desk, on long car journeys or in waiting rooms more comfortable – find out more in our previous story.

The design has been modified for kids so the whole face is visible through the hole in the front, compared to just the nose and mouth on the adult model.

Patterned fabric now lines the inside, visible through the two hand holes on either side.

When we published the adult version, our commenters called it “a pickpocket’s dream” and compared it to a “garlic clove” and a “locust head”.

Kawamura-Ganjavian has also designed a padded reading room at a bookshop in Lausanne and screens made of sticks covered in Velcro for an exhibition in Milan.

Our most recent stories about design for sleep include a squishy light that can be used as a warm, glowing pillow and the first Sleepbox hotel made from portable sleeping capsules in Moscow.

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Read on for more information from the designers:

Ostrich Pillow hit the headlines across the globe 12 months ago and everybody was talking about it, from Perez Hilton to Stephen Fry, Jimmy Kimmel to the cast of ‘Modern Family’, Tech Crunch to the Sun, Hypebeast to Loose Women, Huffington Post to Bloomberg.

The Ostrich Pillow launch made a sensation last year when it it’s founders raised more than $200,000 in just 30 days via the amazing crowd-funded Kickstarter campaign.

The people have spoken with sales stretching across the globe, and the sleep-deprived masses have been relishing the calm in their “Ostrich Pillow moments”. Have you Instagrammed your’s yet?

We at Ostrich Pillow like to be inclusive so now with public demand telling us to think about the kids, so here we are announcing the launch of Ostrich Pillow Junior. From ages six plus, the Ostrich Pillow Junior is the perfect travelling and napping companion for kids for car journeys, study breaks and general time outs.

Beautifully designed, hand-made to perfection in Spain and supercool, this new addition is more fun, more functional and more bang for your buck.

Ostrich Pillow Junior comes with a larger opening for the face so both eyes and mouth are visible enhanced padding at the forehead and neck to give more comfort, support and ease for the younger user.

The pillow comes with two unique interior colours – Berry Snooze and Dreamy Waves and comes with a more attractive price and retails at €59, $75 and £50.

Alongside the launch of Ostrich Pillow Junior, the designers have created more colours for the adult range. As well as the original Ostrich Pillow Blue, we now offer you the choice of Mellow Yellow for those bright happy times and Sunset Siesta for those chilled out and laid back moments, solving more of your gifting dilemmas’ as the holiday season draws nearer.

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