Baker Cookstove – an energy efficient cookstove for the developing world
The majority of women in the developing world prepare food on a technology called a three-stone fire. It is basically three rocks that support a pot with an open fire in the middle. This cooking method is very inefficient and leads to many environmental and health problems. Another bad side effect is that children are...
Nothing to do with uniformity and everything to do with standing out from the crowd
Buster + Punch is a London based company that creates daring and evocative design objects that celebrate custom living and being individual. The brand has nothing to do with uniformity and everything to do with standing out from the crowd according to the founders. It all started in a small garage in East London, where we discovered...
Harpa wins Mies van der Rohe Award 2013
The new Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre Harpa, wins the 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The building is designed by Henning Larsen Architects, Batteríið Architects and Studio Olafur Eliasson in collaboration. The building has helped to transform and revitalise Reykjavik harbour and brought the city and...
SwedeSIGN*
= Swedes + deSIGN* : function, aesthetics, and affordability SwedeSIGN [Swedish design]* scene is more vibrant than ever despite the size of economy. Traveling the world over, but heart and soul remain in motherland. Diversity is a significant keyword that describes their creativity, and the drive to combine functionality with beauty and efficiency is pervaded...
Milan Design Week 2013 – part three
This is the final post with snapshots from the recent Milan Design Week 2013. Former posts: Milan Design Week 2013 – part one, Milan Design Week 2013 – part two. Ice from Torne älv in northern Sweden. The three images above from the Lexus Design Award. Experience room at the Lexus show. Excelsior department store...
Milan Design Week 2013 – part two
Here’s part two of our snapshots from this years Milan Design Week. You can see part one here. Material meetings at Baccarat Fab at MOST Footsteps at Maison Margiela Courtyard of Maison Margiela Dennis Parren lamp at Rossana Orlandi Olof Kolte grocery stand at Ventura Lambrate MOST downstairs exhibition Stellar Works handicraft production Machinery at...
Milan Design Week 2013 – part one
We left Milan Design Week 2013 with different impressions. Some things were very disappointing. Superstudio seems to be totally out of artist direction and has been in a negative trend for many years (so far from the first years when Giulio Cappellini hand-picked the different brands). Also the Zona Tortona area in general was weak...
A new interactive game that expands our exploration of privacy and public space
The urban think tank, community center and public gathering space BMW Guggenheim Lab has just launched Public/Private a new interactive game that expands our exploration of privacy and public space. Go ahead and try – it only takes 60 seconds to share where you find privacy – then you can see how your city compares with the...
Untitled limited edition book by Luis Dourado
Untitled is a book project by Luis Dourado. He have been working with the book for the past three years between Berlin and Oporto. Untitled was released just few days ago on the publishing house SAUNA, on a limited edition of two hundred and fifty copies. Untitled is offset printed and then hand drawn, book by...
Element by Tokujin Yoshioka
At the coming Milano Salone del Mobile Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will present a new collection of furniture for the brand Desalto. The collection called Element consists of a sculptural form of furniture collection inspired of natural crystal structure by adopting the random harmony and beauty from nature. Through the project, Tokujin Yoshioka would like to throw...
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