The Nordic Design Prize 2009 for Newton coffee table
‘Newton’ table was awarded The Nordic Design Prize during Stockholm Furniture Fair.Designers are Staffan Holm & Dan Sunaga. The table is produced by Karl Andersson & Söner.
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gau:di European Student Competition on Sustainable Architecture
The exhibition ‘Sustainable Architecture’ brings together youngcreative people with original ground-breaking ideas on how architecture can help us to address the key challenges confronting our future. From the far North of Europe with the Oulu School of Architecture (Finland) to the South with the Schools of Architecture of Naples and Thessaloniki, the students of sixteen … Continue reading “gau:di European Student Competition on Sustainable Architecture”
The winners of the Fennia Prize 2009 competition
The winners of the Fennia Prize 2009 competition have been chosen. The Fennia Prize 2009 Grand Prix (€15,000) goes to Genelec for the design of the Genelec 5040A subwoofer. Four Fennia Prizes of €5,000 each are awarded to Iittala, Metso Automation, Saas Instruments and Polar Electro. ‘Genelec 5040A’ active subwoofer (2008)Designer: Harri Koskinen, technical … Continue reading “The winners of the Fennia Prize 2009 competition”
‘Muji manufactured by Thonet’
‘Muji manufactured by Thonet’ is a collection of simplified, stylised Thonet icons made of bentwood and tubular steel.Thonet, the oldest furniture brand in the world and the German manufacturer of high-quality furnishings, is producing a simplified form of bentwood and tubular steel furniture for the Japanese retail chain Muji. The products are manufactured completely at … Continue reading “‘Muji manufactured by Thonet’”
Eva Zeisel: The playful search for beauty
Ceramics designer Eva Zeisel looks back on a 75-year career.What keeps her work as fresh today (her latest line debuted in 2008) as in 1926? Her sense of play and beauty, and her drive for adventure. Listen for stories from a rich, colorful life. Filmed in 2001 at TED Conferences.
The Future of Lighting
“Save the light bulb!” say the Magicians of LightQuite unexpectedly, a new resistance movement – “Save the light bulb!” – saw the light of the day at the FutureDesignDays Light Now conference 2009. The speakers – Ingo Maurer, Paul Cocksedge and Moritz Waldemeyer, along with the panel, consisting of Monica Förster, Sandra Edberg and Rikard … Continue reading “The Future of Lighting”
Royal Gold Medal 2009
Álvaro Siza has been announced as the RIBA’s 2009 Royal Gold Medallist. Siza received the Royal Gold Medal from Her Majesty The Queen at Buckingham Palace on February 26 2009. Boa Nova Restaurant © Fernando Guerra
Knoll Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Knoll Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 10.4%, Two Years Ahead of Schedule. In 2008, Knoll initiated a program to offset greenhouse gases at the Lubin Building in East Greenville, PA, with electricity generated from wind power. The initiative is part of the Knoll program to reduce emissions via membership in CCX.
Brazil influence meets Brazil style
Brazilian Design can look back to a long history. Mix of European and native influences, it has evolved very fast creating its own identity, associating wood, cane and leather, materials so present in Brazil. The Gallery of Pierre Bergé is presenting furniture of several major Brazilian designers such as Sergio Rogriguez, Jorge Zalszupin or Carlo … Continue reading “Brazil influence meets Brazil style”
‘Store’ lamp
‘Store’ lamp (2004) Young French designer Marc Venot designed this interesting wall lamp called ‘Store’. You just need to pull down the fabric out of the tube to bring more light. via The Design Blog
Straw Stools
Inventive totem-pole style stacking stools! The Isabella stool is composed from strawboard – a sustainable material made entirely from compressed straw. The strawboard is then covered in 100% felted wool. The stools designed by Ryan Frank are sold at Finnish eco-design MatteriaShop.
The Sliding House
London based architects dRMM have designed a Sliding House in Suffolk, England. The brief was a self-build house to retire to in order to grow food, entertain and enjoy the landscape. The outcome is three conventional building forms with unconventional detailing, radical performance, and a big surprise. A linear building of apparent simplicity … Continue reading “The Sliding House”
Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner
The Lighthouse, Scotland’s National Architecture and Design Centre, isto stage the only European showing of ‘Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner’, as part of its 10th anniversary season. Elrod Residence, John Lautner, Palm Springs, 1968 (photo Joshua White) Over the course of a career spent largely in Los Angeles, John Lautner captured … Continue reading “Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner”
World Industrial Design Day Student Poster Competition
Call for entries: 2009 World Industrial Design Day Student Poster Competition First declared on June 29, 2007 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design, World Industrial Design Day has been established to mark the development and evolution of industrial design throughout the course of its … Continue reading “World Industrial Design Day Student Poster Competition”
Muuto’s new products
Scandinavian design company Muuto is launching a wide range of interesting new products. From the Swedish designer Jens Fager comes a new side table and new colour options for the ‘Raw’ Collection. Furthermore Muuto presents a new design by Cecilie Manz while a popular product has found a new companion. Last fall Muuto launched the … Continue reading “Muuto’s new products”
What is the color of the Internet?
There have been interesting discussions on color lately on the forum but here is a question about color that we didn’t think about asking:What is the color of the Internet? This question is like ‘what is the weight of the oceans?’. It is unanswered. First of all, maybe we have to find the right answer … Continue reading “What is the color of the Internet?”
First retrospective of designer Neal Small
Material ConneXion® presents the first retrospective of designer Neal Small. The exhibition will mark the official opening of Material ConneXion’s new headquarters in New York.
Panasonic Online Design Museum
The Panasonic Design Museum is an online museum which provides information regarding Panasonic’s rich history. It includes an exclusive collection of remarkable product designs dating back to 1918. Improved attachment plug The very first product to be manufactured by Matsushita Electric was an innovative attachment plug, designed by Konosuke Matsushita himself. Uniquely, the plug … Continue reading “Panasonic Online Design Museum”
‘SeeYou’ Contemporary gravestone from Hungary
Hungarian firm Ivanka with Kucsera-Maurer Design Consultancy have created ‘SeeYou’, a gravestone made of poured concrete. The young team will be showing this new project in Milan later in the month.According to the designers, the cross form is a universal symbol but we may not all agree and hope that they will come up very … Continue reading “‘SeeYou’ Contemporary gravestone from Hungary”
Platform 10 presents Crisis Shop. Sold Out! at the Milan Salone
What qualifies as a crisis? Royal College of Art Design Products students’ Sold Out Shop will offer the stimulus to rethink what a crisis actually is…
AIA Announces the 2009 COTE Top Ten Green Projects
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have selected the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and enhance the environment. The projects will be honored at the AIA 2009 National Convention and Design Exposition in San Francisco.The 2009 COTE Top Ten Green Projects … Continue reading “AIA Announces the 2009 COTE Top Ten Green Projects”
Pig snout cup
At first sight this cup looks like a nice ordinary cup. But be aware! …it plays a game with it’s users. This is a product of Freaks United, a design firm based in The Netherlands set up in 2006 by designers Jorine Oosterhoff and Egbert-Jan Lam.
Peter Zumthor is the 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has been chosen as the 2009 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The formal ceremony will be held on May 29 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At that time, a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion will be bestowed on the 65-year old architect.
The Making of the Guggenheim
Frank Lloyd Wright died on April 9 1959 – six months before the opening of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum – his masterpiece. Fifty years after the realization of Wright’s renowned spiral, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum celebrates the golden anniversary with a major exhibition ‘Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward’ and with the publication … Continue reading “The Making of the Guggenheim”
One Good Chair 2009 Competition
The Sustainable Furnishings Council and World Market Center Las Vegas are once again bringing you One Good Chair Design Competition. All sustainability is local, the saying goes. But how can manufactured, transportable products such as furniture become “local”? In a global market, can there be a truly regional product?Historically, many chairs evolved out of the … Continue reading “One Good Chair 2009 Competition”
Brave New World Lamp for Moooi
Marcus Beck and Simon Macro from Freshwest Design in West Wales have designed this huge lamp for Moooi (1.8 metre high) made of notched and pegged timber strips and two cast-iron counter weights.
The Bike Porter integrated basket
Goodmorning Technology is presenting their integrated handlebar basket called the Bike Porter. They have shown it before with the New York City bike, but this is first time as a single product without the bike. How do you integrate a basket in the handlebar? That was the question they asked themselves when developing the city … Continue reading “The Bike Porter integrated basket”
Interviews with Marc Newson, Konstantin Grcic, Ron Arad…
Interview Magazine has just posted online a few interviews they did with Marc Newson, Konstantin Grcic, Ron Arad, Shigeru Ban and Alasdhair Willis for their May Issue.
Go With the Flo – new ergonomic toilet
A team of ASU College of Design students and faculty were recognized this spring for their transgenerational toilet design concept, Go With the Flo™ by the Northwest Design Invitational (NDI). Five excellence criteria were exercised at the NDI biennial competition to recognize outstanding design: appropriate aesthetics, design innovation, ecological responsibility and market and user benefits.Design … Continue reading “Go With the Flo – new ergonomic toilet”
Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize 2009 goes to Harri Koskinen
The Röhsska Museum prize committee for the Torsten and Wanja SöderbergPrize, which is donated by the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg foundations, has decided to award the Finnish designer Harri Koskinen with this year’s prize of SEK 1,000,000.