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Phaidon has released a dramatically oversized book, a spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier (1887–1965), one of Modernism’s most influential architects, urban planners, and theorists.With approximately 2,000 images and documents, many previously unpublished, feature his major built works, urban plans, paintings, publications, and furniture as well as sketches, archival photographs, … Continue reading “Le Corbusier Le Grand”
Contrasts Gallery presents the Shanghai Riddle – The first solo exhibition of the work of Dutch designer Maarten Baas in China. Featuring works inspired by the designer’s experiences in China, the exhibition will include the latest iterations of his Sculpt, “Hey, chair, be a bookshelf!” and Smoke series, as well as new versions of his … Continue reading “Maarten Baas in China”
Grado Zero Espace recently realized and commercialized a new category of material dedicated to industrial designers. The new materials has been called ‘Absolute Black’ and it is based on carbon nanotubes. Thanks to research activities performed by Grado Zero Espace on the integration of nanoparticles into different matrices, a new series of prototypes characterized by … Continue reading “Absolute Black”
Win a Limited Edition Translation Armchair made out of recycled PE.
A classic is reborn – the Krenit series, designed by Herbert Krenchel in 1953. More than 50 years after Herbert Krenchel designed the Krenit salad bowl and serving set, the minimalist design is now launched by Normann Copenhagen. The salad set went into production in 1953, but it is the first time that the salad … Continue reading “The Krenit bowl is back”
The Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts jointlypresent this first major museum retrospective of architect Eero Saarinen’s short but prolific career. Saarinen was one of the most celebrated, unorthodox, and controversial masters of 20th-century architecture. In many ways he was the architect of what has been dubbed “the American century,” the post-World … Continue reading “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future”
The main function of your helmet is to protect your head. But that doesn’t mean you have to compromise on your style when wearing it. If you are among those who use your head, you are using a helmet, and if you are also among those who appreciate looking stylish – you can choose one … Continue reading “Bicycle helmet covers”
ASM/Mtrl presents a two-day workshop on Materials for Designers:Materiality: How Metals and Polymers Influence Our Senses and Inspire Our Designs. This series of highly immersive workshops will provide you the knowledge and insight necessary to visualize the ways in which the latest materials and fabrication processes can influence design. Materials selection behavior for aesthetics, consumer … Continue reading “Materiality Workshop”
The Danish Architecture Centre and CEBRA architects have created theexhibition ‘ecotopedia – walk the talk’, the official Danish contribution to the 11th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2008, as a platform for debate and the exchange of knowledge within sustainable planning. ‘ecotopedia – walk the talk’ reflects the overall theme and poses the … Continue reading “Ecotopedia – Walk the Talk”
Kähler has just launched ‘Cammeo’ a small collection of bone china storage units designed by Louise Campbell.
Lincoln Kayiwa, a designer who graduated from the University of Art andDesign Helsinki in 2007, has started his own product design companyKayiwa. Here are 2 of his new products: ‘Dino’ clothes racks has a strange look with its hangers in the shape of a dinosaur skeleton.
Tom Loeser’s latest work, which is currently in a one-person show called ‘Flotilla’ at Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is about conceptual proposals for ‘bad’ ideas for boats. ‘I’m curious how tweaking function and the symmetrical organization of the boat ends up generating dysfunctional but really interesting forms. Also interested in alternative means of locomotion. … Continue reading “Flotilla”
Construction begins on Herzog & De Meuron’s 56 Leonard Street in New York.The Switzerland-based architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron breaks down the old image of the high-rise as a sleek, hermetically sealed urban object to propose instead a thoughtful and daring new alternative – the iconic American skyscraper re-envisioned as a pixelated vertical layering … Continue reading “56 Leonard Street”
Mattresses are our friends. For years, mattresses selflessly serve our sleeping pleasure. We should all be grateful for our mattresses; after all, most of us were conceived on one.Why, then, are our mattresses being abandoned in dumps and left to the seagulls? Every year in the U.S. 40 million mattresses get thrown in the trash. … Continue reading “Discarded Dreams Mattress Competition”
The year 2009 will mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall.Create Berlin has called on all designers from Berlin to work together in interdisciplinary teams and to think about the effect the sudden abundance of free space after the fall of the wall has had on creativity in and from Berlin. … Continue reading “et la benn in London”
Design For The Children is an open, international design competitionasking architects and designers from around the world to develop a sustainable, culturally responsive, pediatric clinic model for East Africa. Africa today: Women and children walk an average of 6 miles a day to collect water.1 child dies every 15 seconds due to the lack of … Continue reading “Design For The Children”
Serafino Zani will be presenting its new collections at Interieur 08. A new cutlery set has been added to the ‘Passami il sale’ and ‘Al Dente’ project, developed as a result of the partnership between Serafino Zani and German designer Konstantin Grcic. The Festa series, designed by Liliana Bonomi, is a group of steel, … Continue reading “Serafino Zani”
Swims is the modern stylish Galosh from Norway which won Norwegian Design Excellence award. It’s a perfect combination of form and function – and of course great for these rainy days. Slip on Swims when the weather is rough, slip’em off when you arrive at your destination. They also came up with the Mobster Collection … Continue reading “Swims – Enjoy the rain!”
There are many design related exhibitions in Brussels for the moment. The one organised by Galerie Diito has drawn our attention.On the three levels of the beautiful space of the rue de l’Aurore, Diito was showing a selection of works by a confirmed designer (David Trubridge), emerging designers (Charlotte Lancelot and Dustdeluxe) and by a … Continue reading “Galerie Diito”
Reiser+Umemoto’s O-14, a twenty-two story tall commercial tower perched on a two-story podium in the heart of Dubai’s Business Bay, comprises 300,000 square feet and will be located along the extension of Dubai Creek. The design of O-14 fundamentally shifts away from the architectural norm in current Dubai towers by eliminating the now obligatory curtain … Continue reading “0-14 Tower in Dubai”
Urs Schweizer (design) and Arnold Meusburger (master cabinet-maker) are presenting the new furniture collection ‘Decarus’.Every piece of furniture is designed in a reduced form, extracted from very old, matured wood which was used in a building for at least 150 years and manufactured with the characteristical “dovetails” in ultimate perfection of traditional craftmanship in Vorarlberg, … Continue reading “Decarus”
Ushida Findlay Architects (UFA) and Holmes Partnership have received planning permission to build a unique eco-friendly residence for five branches of a single family.An undulating roof links five individual homes and shared family leisure facilities, subtly integrating them with the surrounding landscape and ecology. The buildings have four storeys, three above ground level, with a … Continue reading “Eco-friendly Park Houses”
Frank Tjepkema, multi disciplinary designer and founder of Tjep. presents a public space furniture design project for the Dutch Railways. The project is located in the central hallway of the Amstel Station in Amsterdam. The balance between privacy and openness, intimacy and interaction, were key in the development of this installation.
The first ‘Zero Emission Mode’ motor yacht over 20 metres.Mochi Craft chose the 48th Salone Nautico Internazionale to present in world premiere the Long Range 23, the new three deck motor yacht. Driven by the passion of Norberto Ferretti, and made possible by the years of research carried out by Ferrettis AYT Advanced Yacht Technology … Continue reading “Long Range 23”
The 10 finalists in the CityRacks Design Competition have been selected from among 200 entries submitted by talented designers from around the world.Behind the international design competition for new bicycle parking for the City of New York is a groundbreaking partnership between The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT), and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design … Continue reading “CityRacks Design Competition”
Barbapapa (A. Tison & T. Taylor) Brompton folding bicycle (Andrew Ritchie)What is good design? Every year, Cooper-Hewitt gives out design awards chosen by a jury of distinguished design gurus—but do you agree with the experts? Now you can make your design voice heard by voting for the 2008 People’s Design Award. Whether it’s handmade or … Continue reading “People’s Design Award”
Dutch Design Studio Bluelarix has developped a new concept design of a paper shredder. The Paper2Dust is a new way of shredding paper in a special design, fitting in perfectly in the modern office environment.
During the Dutch Design Week, the department of jewellery and product design of the ABK Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts is presenting the work of their new crop of graduates. ‘share-a-chair ‘ by Laszlo Rozsnoki ‘use-less’ by Nika Ram ‘3d>2d>3d’ by Eefje Schenk Jewellery and product design graduates ABKMaastrichtExhibition: from October 18 to 26 2008Location: … Continue reading “Graduation 2008 Maastricht”
Belgian designer James Van Vossel has received an award for his Z-Ball at Interieur 08.The prize was awarded by Royal Ahrend for a seating idea for a learning environment. Z-Ball is an inflatable ball with 3 handles. The position of these equal handles stimulates an even better position of the 5-attitudes of the back: … Continue reading “Z-Ball”
A few pictures from the 21st International Biennale Interieur 08 that ended on October 26 in Kortrijk, Belgium. ‘Swing’ stool – Axis 71 ‘Memory’ lamps – Axis 71 ‘3237’ by Børge Mogensen – Fredericia Furniture The guest of Honour of this year was Jaime Hayon Jaime Hayon ‘Steelwood’ Chair by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec – … Continue reading “Interieur 08”
