Jewellery engineer Sigurd Bronger receives Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize
Norwegian jewellery engineer Sigurd Bronger receives the 2012 Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize of SEK 1,000,000 (approx EUR 110,000). Sigurd Bronger is a jewellery designer who works in the sphere of the delicate and small scale; between early 20th century mechanical industrialism, humour, love of the material, time and the finely polished. Bronger’s jewellery crosses...
Plug Book by Dave Hakkens
Dutch designer Dave Hakkens has just finished a new project named he named Plug Book. It’s a multiple socket shaped like a book always hidden in the middle of your living room. However, to be able to realize the project he put it on Kickstarter. So, if you like the Plug Book you have the possibility to...
Swedish designers Folkform celebrates Masonite at Svenskt Tenn
The exhibition ’Masonite: Memoriam’ by Anna Holmquist and Chandra Ahlsell of the Swedish design duo Folkform displays a series of cabinets exclusively designed for Svenskt Tenn. The Masonite sheets that the cabinets were built from were recently discovered in an old warehouse. These were the very first product samples from 1929, with different colors and textures....
Leica X2 – a classic camera in both looks and feel
Leica has released the X2, a new addition to the X-line of compact digital cameras. At David Report we have tried the predecessor called X1 a couple of times and have always been happy with the quality it delivers. The new X2 is handmade at Leica’s headquarters in Germany, and features a new APS-C-format professional CMOS...
Instant payoff
When implementing an aesthetic strategy, one of the initial consideration is deciding whether your are aiming for “instant presence” or “instant payoff”. In my previous post, I discussed the qualities of instant presence. Instant presence is an aesthetic experience that occurs as a result of extended payoff time, and a challenge of assumptions; the receiver...
It’s Liquid –
There is noting permanent, but change. – Heraclitus (535-475 BC) According to the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, we now live in a “Liquid Society” where reality keeps changing at a very fast pace and individuals need to adapt smartly to survive. By splicing together an unending series of short-term projects, the episodes do not add up to the kind...
Magnetic bike lights from Copenhagen Parts
There are very few good looking slimline bike lights. Copenhagen Parts wanted something that looked good, worked well and, most importantly, could be fitted and removed instantly. The answer was – magnets. Magnets and steel tubes are an obvious match but we’ve spent a lot of time working on selecting the right components and perfecting...
Design tourism at the Milan Design Week… and some memorable moments
David Report is just back from two days at the Milan Design Week. We had the normal “Groundhog Day experience” (it’s our 23rd year in a row) – Milan in April is an epicenter of design where the latest products are presented for news-starving journalists and bloggers. As well Milan Design Week is an “office party”...
A lamp with 3 million different globe shades
Swedish design trio Front will present the Surface Tension Lamp during the Milan Design Week 2012. Here are their words about the lamp: A bubble is brief, and bursts at your touch. But while it lasts, it catches the light and reflects the room like a multi-coloured temporary structure. We wanted to create a constantly changing...
Coherence light
Coherence light by Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken is a conceptual project researching light and the reflection of light. It’s an experimentation as the exploded concept of a lamp, formed not only of multiple components, but by multiple objects too. The concept talks about light being an object you place on the table. Next to cutlery...
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