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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Clock, Creative design, Netherlands, Studio Toer
Studio Toer has designed the clock “Shaped-by-time”. “Shaped-by-time” is a clock that shapes itself by the passage of time. It looks for the most efficient way to move itself through the matter. By the slow repetitive movement it will create an organic shape. Time is slightly visible when the clock starts running. After a few days [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial
Haworth joins designer Marie-Virginie Berbet to present CalmSpace, a stand alone, “plug & play” power nap capsule for the office, at Orgatec 2012. Individuals searching for rest enter through an acoustic curtain and lay down on a fabric-upholstered mattress. The user is able to select a power nap period – from 10 to 20 minutes [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Archidea, Modern sofa, Paris
“Apollo” – is a new sofa concept created by Tatiana Bortkevica. Inspired by modern architectural forms Apollo sofa has clean and smooth surface. The main concept of Apollo sofa is followed by minimalist lines. With its sophisticated and unusual form Apollo breaks the rule of traditional sofa design.Main body line bends forming two surfaces of [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: A' Design Award and Competition, Architecture Award, Design Award
United States of America, Turkey and Hong Kong are the top 3 countries awarded with the A’ Design Award according to WDR (World Design Ranking). The displayed rankings are based on the current aggregated scores of participants between the years 2010 and 2012. The aim of the ranking is to contribute to global design scape through [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Dutch Design Week, Events/News
Dutch Design Week: Izabela Boloz in collaboration with Kasia Zareba have created an outdoor installation ‘Waiting Spot’ to mark the waiting area for Mini Design Rides – free taxis cruising around the city of Eindhoven during the Dutch Design Week. The blue spot appeared on the street opposite Klokgebouw in Eindhoven. Blue tire tracks emerge [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Installation Tags: China architecture, Design video, EASTERN design office, Pavilion, White
This tower is lucid? The visibility of this tower differs in accordance with the very motion of the atmosphere and every change of sky and light. No doubt this tower forgets that it is a tower. Tower of Ring by EASTERN design office from Eastern design office on Vimeo. Building such a lucid tower in [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Concrete
Having your home decorated with the same old hardware isn’t going to let you stand out, and certainly won’t turn many heads at your next dinner party. One quick fix to your home’s routine knob are KAST Concrete’s new concrete drawer and cabinet knobs. Made in Alabama, these concrete knobs are top quality and have [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Modern cabinet, Random pattern
Pedro Sousa Studio recently has created the Causeway. Causeway takes, as a point of departure, the good memories of student days, more precisely the year spent in Dublin. Having found peculiar rock formations, Pedro designed this sailboard which forms a three-dimensional pattern, despite the bidimensional original pattern, as if it were a illusory game, dense [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: Claesson Koivisto Rune, LED, Sweden
Swedish lighting company, Wästberg, will present the new LED Uplighter designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune, at Orgatec, October 23 – 27, 2012. Historic industrial design icons such as the Starship Enterprise or the Citroën’s steering wheel were inspirational when designing the w126 uplighter. Admittedly two quite technical examples, but this is a lamp that demanded [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: 10 Design, India architecture, Random pattern, Stone
Badshahpur is located in Gurgaon – one of the largest cities in the Indian state of Haryana, and a major satellite of Delhi. Gurgaon has experienced rapid development over the last 20 years; attracting both regional and global institutions to its infrastructure offering, proximity to the Capital, and for its growth as a hub of [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Exhibition, Hong Kong, MET Studio
The stunning new ‘City Gallery’ by the Planning Department of the HKSAR Government, which takes as its theme the city’s planning and infrastructure, has now opened within Hong Kong’s City Hall Annexe. London- and Hong-Kong-based experiential designers MET Studio acted as the lead exhibition consultant on the project, working in collaboration with joint venture partners Oval [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Ceramic tile
Designing a kitchen is, more often than not, a costly and time-consuming procedure that can really do more harm than good for your home if it’s not thought out properly. Having said this, you sometimes don’t need to do that much to really change the look and feel of this room! Here are some great [...]
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