“LOCK” is designed out of the qualities, possibilities and characteristics of its highly sustainable material: BAMBOO. The frame is build up from layers of flexible bamboo. The layers are pressed together. The shape is formed by the bamboo’s natural bending curve. The layers of bamboo curve through each other and entwine, locking each other in [...]
The New York City based graphic designer Christopher Dina shared with us his new work of a graphic representation of London‘s striking skyline featuring its historic and modern day architectural icons. Illustrated landmarks include the Millennium Dome, London Eye, Palace of Westminster, The Shard, London City Hall, Tower Bridge, “the Gherkin” and Saint Paul’s Cathedral. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A’ Design Award & Competition aims to highlight the excellent qualifications of best design every year, here are the selected 10 award winning designs that we like. …… [ripple] Club House by Kris Lin This is a high-end club is located in Chengdu, China. The overall style is a new style of Orientalism based on [...]
Jonathan Dorthe recently designed the Picture-Clock for Atelier-D. These clocks capture time and place with images of urban landscape from Montreal. They are silkscreened with a silver metallic pigment, with backgrounds in black for night images, and white for daylight. 8h28 pm : Cityscape of Montreal seen from the old city at night. 4h47 pm [...]
Vederlicht is a fascination that i had when i was a small child, the fascination of model glider plane. Back then these planes cost too much for me to buy and i only could look at them in the shop. The small kid in me is still there so i took the technique and material [...]
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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 [...]
