Written by Anne de Haij Ever thought of your favourite party dress affecting your behaviour? Or your daily breakfast determining your mood? You won’t find these rather simplified illustrations of design influencing your daily life on the main exhibition of
Recently Leica has released a limited edition which celebrates the friendship and collaboration between Jean-Louis Dumas, the former president of Hermès, who died in May 2010, and Leica Camera AG.er.
Oliver Kreylos has designed an augmented reality sandbox that projects a coloured topographic map in real time. This means contour lines and different colours, such as virtual water, appear while the sand is being manipulated.
‘Deskbox’ is a minimalistic desk/cabinet which can be mounted blind to your wall. The surface is ideal for working on one’s laptop. The desk can be extended outwards to reveal a double sized work surface, and easily be pushed back
These wood castings by Israel-based designer Hilla Shamia have been created by pooring melted aluminium directly onto a wooden surface. The high heat of the aluminium on the tree trunk burns the wood slightly, leaving a charred edge when the
Korean designer Jaebeom Jeong of stonewater studio has created the ‘Fake Shaker’, a portable furniture piece. It is based on the traditional shaker-style chair, only this one is easily assembled and taken apart again. It is made of various pieces of wood,
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Our favorite piece of Milan’s annual Salone Del Mobile design fair is the ‘Medici’ chair by Konstantin Grcic for Mattiazzi. Mr Grcic is known as an industrial designer, but actually started as a cabinet-maker, so his collaboration with Mattiazzi is
Caricature as Furniture is a fun project by the brand new design studio 56th Studio, whose designs are not just functional, but also communicative. For this series they concentrated on caricature drawing, the exaggeration of distinctive features.
The world’s largest furniture fair, Salon del Mobile 2012, is about to commence, and designers Ryosuke Fukusada and Rui Pereira wondered: “Do we still have an appetite for all this furniture?”