365 Charming Everyday Things
365 Charming Everyday Things is a project for introducing everyday items that have accompanied the lives of Japanese people. These items represent Japanese wisdom, skills and aesthetic sense, offer practical usefulness in everyday life, and provide a sense of comfort, fun and small happiness to us. A total of 365 charming items have been selected to...
A film about hope, fear and digital culture
PressPausPlay, the film about hope, fear and digital culture, is now available for everyone as an interactive version, as a free download. The best part about the interactive player is that all the interviews not included in the final theater edit are included here, which results in ten times the content. The player is also a “living”...
Design, Creativity & Culture: An Orientation to Design
Design, Creativity & Culture is a new book release from Black Dog by Maurice Barnwell which provides an inclusive, cross-cultural study of design that will provoke readers to question both design and culture. The book goes deep into the multidisciplinary nature of design by referencing design history, design process, cultural studies, media studies, visual culture, political culture...
Awateef – handweaved by women from Kfar Manda in Galilee
Awateef is a collaborative project between Knockoutdesign and Palestinian craftswomen of Kfar Manda village in Galilee. The designed series of objects gives a new interpretation of the meeting between the high precision industrial technology and the impeccable beauty and charm of the handicraft. Kfar Manda is a village with one of the highest percentage of...
New issue of Intermission magazine
Stockholm based quartely Intermission magazine which writes about issues in the area of fashion, music, art and culture is out with a new issue June 21. Among the stories are interviews and photography of Peter Philips, Chirstophe Lemaire, Bob Recine and Ezra Petronio. It’s not about celebrity or news factor, but photography and enduring stories....
A reminder of the Design + Culture in-depth trend report
If you have note yet been reading our latest in-depth trend report called Design + Culture: A Return to Fundamentalism? here’s a short sum-up of the content: 1. GLOBAL VERSUS LOCAL If we lose our sense of Culture, we will have lost our state of collective consciousness and expression. Even if nation-hood is no...
Biodegradable urn gets the Red Dot award
Memento – a water biodegradable urn, designed by Swedish design agency LOTS and manufactured by American company Passages International, has got the Red dot award for high design quality by the jury with its panel of highly respected experts. Memento is an urn for burials at sea. It builds on the humanistic burial ceremony that...
Arik Levy interview on the theme Design Beyond Design
This is an interview with Arik Levy from his studio where he talks about his inspirations and his work. The interview is made by Designboost and is one of three made this spring on the topic Design Beyond Design, which is also the theme for Designboost 2011. Designer, technician, artist, photographer, filmmaker, Levy’s skills are...
Design+Culture – A Return to Fundamentalism?
We are happy to announce the new in-depth trend report from David Report called “Design+Culture – A Return to Fundamentalism?“. Design has become the embodiment of a larger process of creative ‘culture-mongering’ that has become a means to capture ideation, innovation and enterprise and made to stand for cultural identity. Whilst the application of design...
Please help Japan
Dearest our friends in the world, As you may already have known, Japan was hit by the largest earthquake ever recorded on Friday, March 11th. The huge quake and devastating tsunami has left the overwhelming damage to the country and we are still facing this terrifying conditions. As I have received the message from all...
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