A cultural clash by Les Hommes
The cultural clash between East and West during World War I in the Middle East inspires Les Hommes for Spring-Summer 2010. The movie that better depicts this theme and the epic atmosphere of that period is LAWRENCE OF ARABIA: the almost mystic experience of entering the desert and being transformed and deeply affected by the...
Giuliano Fujiwara Spring-Summer 2010
For Spring-Summer 2010 Masataka Matsumura – Giuliano Fujiwara’s creative director – draws inspiration from current time; in reaction to crisis and global recession the key word, around which the new collection is conceived, is “concreteness”. The overall image, therefore, will be strong and masculine, with several military details, and extremely clean. Silhouettes are geometric, rigorous...
the Way Sensing GO +
the Way Sensing GO + consists of two parts, a workshop and an installation from the outcome. The concept of this piece is building a digital version of The Way Things Go (Peter Fischli and David Weiss, 1987) assembling a chain of electric modules which has both input and output. The first version the Way Sensing...
Eulenspiegel by Katrin Olina
Eulenspiegel by Katrin Olina is from an installation at the Reykjavik Art Museum. I like it a lot. Please check out the interview with Katrin from Milan Design Week as well.
Impressions from Milan Design Week 2009
Maybe a bit late but here is a short film my company Designboost made during the MiniBoost at the Milan Design Week. We also made thirteen interviews with top international designers. Seven of them are released so far (you can see two of theme here and here).
Imaginative furniture for children
Furniture made for children are ether small versions of furniture for adults, or they tend to have strong colours and crazy shapes that leaves little space for imagination. These different design categories became the starting point for a new furniture concept. The aim for Please design was to create furniture that could work in a space that adults and children share...
New architecture in Copenhagen
Of the many new estates at Copenhagen Harbour, Havneholmen by architect Lene Tranberg from Lundgaard & Tranberg is one of the most interesting. Located on an island at the entrance to the harbour – just opposite Fisketorvet and with a walkway to Islands Brygge. The project builds upon an urban plan that transforms a former industrial...
Experimental design from Apocalypse
Swedish experimental design group APOCALYPSE presented four new products made from materials with history at the DMY design festival in Berlin last week. The Pot and Shelf Torso uses a few of the 360 million tires consumed yearly in the EU. As pots and shelves, the tires get a new life. The material is made by granulated...
Mono-use disposable plate
UFO (Unidentified Feeding Object) is a mono-use disposable plate designed by Andrea Ruggiero for InDisposed – an exhibition which invited designers to address notions of disposability in everyday products. Lightweight and rigid, UFO is designed to to be used at picnics, garden parties, beach parties or barbeques and disposed of by launching it into the bushes...
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