Dutch design studio Lijmbach, Leeuw & Vormgeving have released their prototype of a foldable armadillo backpack a while ago. Blogs and magazines started writing about the backpack, and readers started contacting the studio, asking whether the bag would become available. After continuous demand, the duo has decided to develop the prototype into a production model. [...]
German studio PARAT designed the Hypermarché Hafencity in Hamburg. Hypermarché is the attempt to attract young locals (like us) to Hafencity Hamburg. Because Hafencity is a special place in Hamburg. It is an impersonal developing area. On weekdays there are just businessmen, at the weekend the promenades are full of tourists. – a temporary concept [...]
There are many things that inspire many different people. The latest offering from Mia Morikawa draws from a number of influencing factors including mountains and canyons. The young graduate creates stunning designer jewellery from her home in India in a range of different materials. The designer founded her brand, Kapow Wow!, after creating pieces for [...]
Ana Relvao is a Portuguese designer working in Munique (Germany), she has recently designed Disco, a tiny medal made in polished steel. This piece is now on exhibition, at Objectos Reflectidos, where some new portuguese designers are being showed, as part of EXD’11/Lisboa. + Designer: Ana Relvao
Designed by a South Korean fashion designer Minwoo Lee, this fashion item called ‘Savage Hood’. The design’s motive came from the animal skin coats, imagining human species surviving during the cold winter seasons during the cave man era. It is a small winter item, but it will do more than a small job. Covered by [...]
South Korean product designer Jinyoung Choi has designed a Domestic tools Coral. Coral-tool is esthetic tool with more comfortable in home which is not terrible tools that places coner of tool box or a thing lefted alone. Push in the nail through the hole of center Head of nail pushes little part of coral tool [...]
Tokujin Yoshioka has designed a new watch “O” Shape of Water – Transparent Time. Produced by ISSEY MIYAKE and developed by Seiko Instruments Inc., “O” was launched at the Basel World in Switzerland in March of 2011 in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the ISSEY MIYAKE watch project. “O” has a meaning as “water” [...]
Do you still remember the “Mountains & Opening House” designed by EASTERN design office that we’ve featured last year? It is a house and studio for a Japanese sneaker brand “Dragon Beard“. Designed with the philosophy of the brand “Dragon Beard“, the architecture is on a hill above the land where the business carries had [...]
60/CH Wrist Watch is the latest creation by Christian Harrup Design. One of the main aims for the 60/CH wrist watch is to give the user a simple yet intriguing way to tell the time. It works using the same principles common in the analogue watch yet when not in use has no visible hands [...]
Studio Roosegaarde has 3 exciting interactive premieres this week. They are ‘Lotus 7.0‘, ‘Intimacy Black & White‘ and ‘Divine‘. The Lotus 7.0 with its hundreds of heat sensitive foils will unfold themselves at museum Le Cube in Paris, high-tech garment Intimacy will become transparent based on social interactions at Centraal Museum and a special public [...]
Oly disposable Bracelet is a latest creation by Portuguese designer Gonçalo Campos. A paper bracelet that anyone can download and build, like a children’s game, using glue and scissors. It’s a really special and distinct accessory, to be used anytime you feel like it, without being afraid of losing or breaking, because it’s just paper [...]
Icelandic design studio HAF by Hafsteinn Júlíusson has created the Growing Jewelry collection which combines both jewelry and gardening. The growing necklace is a part of the Growing Jewelry collection which was designed with city dwellers in mind, giving them a bit of nature to carry around with them through urbanized gloom. + All images [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
