Solar-powered cycle stand
Solar energy and cycling are seen as sustainable alternatives to transportation powered by fossil fuels. This efficient design brings the two together in a solar-powered cycle stand called SolarCell that produces a 70-watt light. Motion detectors integrated into the cycle stand have a range of 80 meters, triggering the embedded LED lighting to illuminate the...
The psychology of Design Attraction 1: Familiarization – Design for Flow & Imprint
Kristine Harper has written about comfort zone breaking aesthetic experiences as a human need. Within visual semiotics and design rhetorics this notion is referred to as “Defamiliarization” and it´s counter phenomena “Familiarization”. This idea, framed in the notion of “Flow” (Mihály Csíkszentmihályi), forms a theory that is useful when analyzing design and style. This theory...
A film on the discipline of drawing
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec present a new edition of the exhibition album at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery in Weil am Rhein. For the first time, album features formal studies, freehand drawings and sketches that are originals. album also presents a film on the discipline of drawing – as Ronan and Erwan daily practice it. It is directed by the French collective...
DFTS Factory launches the bracelet Torus
Torus is a new bracelet for women designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune and produced by DFTS Factory. Claesson Koivisto Rune holds a deep respect for the traditional handicraft so etched in Swedish culture but blends this with a fervent appetite for the most cutting edge techniques in the industry and it’s this element which has been...
Silestone Slab Vases by FUWL
Form Us With Love and Cosentino present a project exploring the quartz surface Silestone. Silestone Slab Vases were shown at the Form Us With Friends exhibition at the Swedish Museum of Architecture during Stockholm Design Week. The project aims to break away from the familiar Silestone slab form and explore the material’s tactile dimension. The...
Portable park chair Share by Thomas Bernstrand
Swedish designer Thomas Bernstrand has made a portable park chair called Share for Nola. Share chairs are lightweight outdoor seats designed to nest within each other as they attach to an immovable base. Like the attachable trolleys used in super- markets and airports, the chairs are equipped with coin-operated locking mechanisms that link them together when...
Designboost-Design Intelligence in Stockholm February 8-9
Designboost – Design Intelligence takes place February 8–9 at the Audi Forum, Hamngatan 17 in Stockholm. The event offers a range of speakers that talk about the importance of creating better design solutions. There will be a photo exhibition in which 50 world-renowned designers reason about the importance of daring to make mistakes. You can...
Terence Conran exhibition
The London Design museum is currently showing an exhibition about Terence Conran, called ’The way we live now’. The exhibition marks Conran’s 80th birthday and is on until the 4th March. All the work is displayed in one room with a wall that divides the room, which makes it easy to navigate through. It starts...
The sublime and the complex expression
My post on aesthetic sustainability finished with the following question: Is aesthetic sustainability only a matter of creating minimalistic, “clean” objects that you never get tired of looking at? Or can an aesthetically sustainable object also be an object that is so complex that you never feel like you are done with it? This is...
The room in-between by Nude
Nude is Stockholm based creative atelier that creates energy-filled rooms for well being. During Stockholm Design Week they will launch The Room In-Between, accompanied by a limited edition of specially designed furniture. The founder of NUDE, Eva-Lotta Axelsson, describes their philosophy: In the city, everything is represented by a facade. The facade and its location becomes...
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