Time to Rethink Design
We are facing a pandemic of ‘designed stuff’ and we have reached a contamination point, a crisis for Design. Why are we not more pertubed and disturbed, why are we so complacent and tolerant? Should we not be calling for a guerrilla war against ‘designerism’, antiviral campaigns against the design establishment or do we need...
POC protects The Swedes
It’s with great honor that POC supplies the Swedish Alpine Ski Team with helmets, goggles and body armor. An ongoing collaboration since the birth of POC 5 years ago. From this season POC has initiated a specific program where POC gives a little extra support to a number of the Swedish athletes in their quest for...
Algae power for sustainable living
What will the fuel of the future be? There are many candidates but one of the most promising is the initiative with fast-growing algae to produce hydrogen. Scientific research has come quite far and we at LOTS like to visualize and explore how algae farms can be a part of the urban landscape. Included in...
Funktionide by Stefan Ulrich
Stefan Ulrich’s Bachelor Project in Design at HAWK Hildesheim uses an Arduino board, an open-source electronics prototyping platform, to create an inspiring interactive design object. He explores how physical objects will transform into social objects, exploring design’s future functions and our demands of it; will we be satisfied with an object that is only a...
PIECES of interaction
How would you visualize relatedness? What if you could feel through the senses of a fish? How to work with children as designpartners? The interaction design students at master and bachelor level at K3, Malmö University invite you to come and look, try and discuss their ideas on these topics at their graduation show at Orkanen (Nordenskiöldsgatan 10), Malmö...
Peepoo takes on one of the world’s biggest challenges
The Peepoo bag by PeePoople is a really great invention which I have written about before, especially its life saving capacity. It came to my knowledge that there is a new presentation video of the Peepoo bag at Youtube and of course I will publish it immediately. Still, 40% of the worlds population don’t have...
A break-through device by V12
V12 is an interesting and innovative Milan design company that I have written about before. They have teamed up with the young and dynamic firm Estari and the two are now working on bringing the ground-breaking Canova laptop into the real world. When finally launched Canova will probably revolutionize the world of personal computers. The dual touch...
New Maxjenny webshop
The fashion designer (and Designboost booster) Maxjenny Forslund is opening a new webshop. If you are into personal and innovative clothing design you should definitely give it a look. Andra bloggar om: mode, kläder, design, webbshop
Life saving Peepoo bag
In the world today more than 2,6 billion of people has no access to basic sanitation. That means that 40 out of 100 person lacks even the most simple latrine to perform their needs. The lack of toilets affects both society and the individual through the contamination of fresh water and ground water. Human faeces...
Falafel soap
APOCALYPSE is a new company founded by industrial designers Petra Lilja and Jenny Nordberg. Based in Malmö, Sweden, they are designing sustainable products and services. The first product, The Soap is made from recycled cooking oil from the numerous Falafel stands around Malmö. “We look at waste as materials with a history and with a...
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