Paul Housberg was approached to create six art glass walls for the new Frick Chemistry Laboratory at Princeton University designed by Hopkins Architects (London) in collaboration with Payette Associates (Boston). The walls are located at the north and south ends of the central corridor of the office wing of the building, one pair on each [...]
Dutch studio COEN! designed a wall mounted magazine holder FOLDR. But most importantly perhaps is the fact that the focus has been entirely on the brochures and magazines, and not on the product, it is in fact a perfect tray for the lively covers of beautiful magazines and corporate sales brochures. Coen van Ham + [...]
Might many people sympathize if a series of daily acts that we see and feel around us were place on design? MOT is a hanger that paid attention to an act of nailing. We can see in many case around us that it is not well nailed but bent. MOT is reflected an act of [...]
Portuguese ceramic maker Carla Santiago from Estudio BIS//CUIT designed 2 tableware sets, Patterned Face and Patterned Smile. The homeware pieces are inspired by the virtual and digital imagery taken from computer graphics, video games and fashion editorial images. + Product description by ESTUDIO BIS//CUIT PATTERNED SMILE – porcelain tableware set Inspired by virtual imagery and [...]
Between paper clay and porcelain ware, the unique ceramic art of Paola Paronetto, on display at Maison & Objet. Italian ceramist Paola Paronetto is glad to announce her participation in Maison & Objet, the International home fair in Paris, scheduled from January 21st to 25th, 2011. Part of “Scènes d’intérieur” section, dedicated to artistic and [...]
SEMdesign has developed a new product. We proudly present Fruit bowl 128. The fruit bowl that never looks empty. This fruit bowl is handmade by gluing different pieces of recycled cardboard or plywood together. Because of the different levels in the fruit bowl you will be able to ‘play’ with the pieces of fruit and [...]
This ceramic relief sculpture entitled “Hydrolith” was designed and fabricated by Los Angeles based artist Dakota Warren. This piece was commissioned by the City of Oakland for the Fremont public swimming pool in 2009. Warren expanded the scope of the project to include a series of youth ceramic workshops to create artwork for a nearby [...]
Swedish designer David Cathro designed the Blomp Coat Hanger. You can hang your jackets and scarves on the outside and put your keys, gloves or credit cards on the inside. They are hand cast in Polyester resin with the size of 16.5cm x 16.5 cm. + Designer: a Cathro DESIGN | http://acathrodesign.com
In Milan, Chris Bosse of Laboratory for Visionary Architecture [LAVA] has created a window installation for the famous Italian department store la Rinascente for its Contemporary Christmas Art windows. LAVA’s window installation is an origami coral reef using 1500 recycled and recyclable cardboard molecules that explores the intelligence of natural and architectural systems. In urban [...]
LANDCARPET is a modern area rug, inspired by nature and farmed landscapes. It shows the world from straight above, as we usally see it only out of the window of a plane. A fascinating landscape image, a satellite-like aerial view to touch, LANDCARPET is a piece of nature in your apartment. As each country deals [...]
Kassen Lifestyle Creates the Definitive, Modern Cat-Scratch Post with Skiitch. Kassen Lifestyle has has proved with the Skiitch that the modern lifestyle can finally coexist with the cats in your life, all without sacrificing modern aesthetics and great design. The Skiitch cat-scratch post provides 28 inches of vertical and nine inches of horizontal scratching area, [...]
A french product designer Guillaume Lehoux designed the SOD Project which was based on the results of a NASA experiment. This experiment was designed to study the influence of certain psychoactive substances on the behavior of living things. The researchers inoculated the test substances (marijuana, caffeine, benzedrine and chloral hydrate) to spiders and then let [...]
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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 [...]
