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Infobar 2 mobile by Naoto Fukasawa
2007-10-02 09:22:00 The Infobar 2 mobile phone by Naoto Fukasawa will be released by Japanese producer AU in November. The new images of this beautiful mobile phone speaks for themselves. Ping Intressant.se tags technorati : naoto fukasawa au infobar 2 mobile phone design Andra bloggar om: mobil, telefon, teknik, prylar, design, naoto fukasawa More About: Design , Mobile , Products , Bile
Doom and hope in London
2007-10-01 10:14:00 Reuse is the word of the day. From recently finished London Fashion week we have seen a recycling tendency in fashion, and during London Design Festival the pattern once again is to find amongst the interiors. At Victoria & Albert Museum in Kensington I find the flagmen Campana brother´s well known trash aesthetics expressed through a ... More About: Events , Trends , Competitions
Moto boy in bicycles tunnel
2007-09-30 23:37:00 Magnificent operaesque voice accompanied by high lonely tones on a hard rock guitar. That’s all Moto boy aka. Oskar Humlebo needs to arouse the same kinds of hair-raising feelings that Jeff Buckley did and a movie by David Lynch is able to do. The song is called Beat heart and the video is recorded live ... More About: Lifestyle , Bicycles , Tunnel , Bicycle
Ten new speakers announced for Designboost
2007-09-29 11:43:00 Ten new speakers have just been announced for the lecture day of the event Design boost which will take place in Malmö, Sweden on October 18. The theme for Designboost this year is “sustainable design” and the speakers will give their personal view on the subject. I’m one if the founders of the event and we ... More About: Events , Trends , Future , Competitions
Neo by CKR for Iittala
2007-09-27 16:24:00 Neo is a new collection of pots by Claesson Koivisto Rune by Finnish producer Iittala. According to them it was a challenge to achieve the possibility to cook in all different ways (gas, induction etc) and keep the sense of quality at the same time as Neo should be lightweight enough for women to use ... More About: Design , Products , Innovation
10 most influental design bloggers
2007-09-25 21:21:00 The Home Rejuvenation Blog is conducting a survey to find out who the 10 influential bloggers (blogs) in our design community are. It’s time to find the movers and shakers of the design blogging world. Follow this link to read more about it. tags technorati : blogosphere design Andra bloggar om: bloggosfären, design More About: Design , Events , Competitions , Bloggers
Sustainable design quotes
2007-09-25 11:15:00 As I have mentioned earlier I’m one of the founders of the Design boost event which will take place in Malmö 17-19 October. Designboost consists of workshops, lectures and an exhibition (or as we prefer to call it boost meetings, boost chats and boost show). We are asking our one hundred participating “boosters” to write a ... More About: Events , Trends , Quotes , Competitions
A modern forest superintendent cabin
2007-09-23 21:36:00 The forest superintendent cabin by Strata Arkitektur in Stockholm was announced as winner of the debutante price from the magazine Arkitektur the other day. Strata Arkitektur is founded by Petra Gipp och Katarina Lundeberg. The cabin has a low-voice functionality and all materials are chosen with an environmental perspective. The architects want them to age ... More About: Architecture , Modern , Forest , Superintendent , Peri
T-shirts in the post
2007-09-22 15:33:00 T-post offers you to subscribe to cool T-shirts. Once you sign up a package will arrive every six weeks. It’s almost like having a subscription to a magazine. All T-shirts from T-post have a design based on a current news item. This topic is always printed on the inside inside. Ping Intressant.se tags technorati : t-post t-shirts ... More About: Design , Lifestyle , Post , Shirts , T-Shirts
Portable digital storage device
2007-09-21 13:39:00 The Little Disk Program is a collection of portable, digital storage devices designed by Sam Hecht and his studio Industrial Facility. They are produced by LaCie. I love the clean and rational look. Sam Hecht describes the idea behind them like this: A good tool is never a gadget. A tool is something that is holistic, ... More About: Design , Products , Portable , Storage , Device
Playground for urban cities in 2015
2007-09-20 13:21:00 Playground for urban cities in 2015 is a a project by Alain Gilles, formerly working at Quinze and Milan and now opening his own studio. Urban Jungle: Hanging or walking between rubber vines. Playing hide and seek with their peers. Young children need to learn to go beyond their fears, to step into unknown territories. Antzzz ... More About: Design , Products , Cities , Innovation
Likemind coffee this Friday
2007-09-19 14:37:00 Likemind is an opportunity to enjoy good coffee and conversation. Drinking coffee with like minded people is fun. It’s for people like you. As earlier Likemind coffee mornings I?m hosting the Malmö branch together with Björn from Good Old. This month we will meet on Friday September 21th at 9 am at Solde Kaffebar, Regementsgatan ... More About: Lifestyle , Events , Coffee
Bags of goodwill
2007-09-18 23:45:00 British design company Twentytwentyone is organizing an auction where 40 world-renowned designers have created an unique design on an organically produced tote bag. The Bags of goodwill has been devised by Twentytwentyone to raise awareness of the importance of sustainability and fair-trad practice. All the proceeds will go to the Fairtrade Foundation. Stockholm based designer Damian ... More About: Design , Events , Sustainability , Social responsibility
Eero Koivisto about Designboost
2007-09-18 11:27:00 Designer and architect Eero Koivisto Eero Koivisto talks about the Designboost event which I’m organizing in Malmö 17?19 October. The theme for this year is sustainable design. Eero Koivisto will be one of the speakers at the lecture day (or Boost chat day as we prefer to call) it on October 18. This day is ... More About: Design , Events , Sustainability , Social responsibility , Visto
Plastic fantastic calculator
2007-09-17 10:39:00 Sam Hecht and Kim Collin runs the design studio Industrial Facility with Ippei Matsumoto as senior designer. I think they make clever designs and I like their rational and sufficient products a lot. There is a clarity in every design solution. Recently I found the Ten Key Calculator with a nice retro 60/70s style plastic ... More About: Design , Products , Plastic
Designers that want to be artists 2
2007-09-16 12:12:00 Below is another example of the ongoing trend where designers are entering the art world. This time it is a sculpture by Barber Osgerby that will be on display at The Old Royal Naval College in London 15 - 30 September during The London Design Festival. It seems like my “Designers that want to be ... More About: Trends , Artists , Artis
K-Bench by Charles Kaisin
2007-09-15 18:25:00 With an innovative combination of design and materials, the honeycomb structured extendable K-bench allows to be shaped according to one?s need. The poetic of origami blends with modern materials in a perfect mix of tradition and modernity. The bench is only 16 cm thick when contracted. It is assembled in no time with big paperclips ... More About: Design , Products , Bench , Charles , Char
Desert Lounge Weekend
2007-09-15 11:31:00 The Desert Lounge Weekend will take place in Marrakech October 19-21, 2007. In an exotic setting you will experience great music from artists and DJ’s like Bryan Ferry, Dimitri from Paris and Claude Challe global nomads, charity and fine food and drinks. Daytime the surrounding are buzzing with commerce and Morrocan life and at night ... More About: Lifestyle , Events
Up against it
2007-09-13 15:18:00 Would you like your personal piece of art on the wall above? Send your entries to the competition Up against it which is a public art competition. The wall with a size bigger than 60 m2 is situated in Deptford, London and can be seen by more than 2000 commuters a day. Deadline for entering ... More About: Events , Creativity
Lego work by Bjarke Ingels
2007-09-13 09:54:00 The video shows the work by Bjarke Ingels group when they constructed a Lego tower of more than 250.000 pieces. The work took five weeks and will be presented at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. You can see part of the final result below. I will soon post some further images ... More About: Design , Work , Creativity
What is an environmental friendly car?
2007-09-12 11:58:00 The car industry is preparing for the big “environmental friendly” fight at this years car show in Frankfurt. The one thousand exhibitors expect almost a million visitors to the stands. It’s good that the car industry finally would like to be environmental friendly (because of the ongoing ecological trend I suppose…). Their efforts are ... More About: Design , Events , Environmental , Innovation , Sustainability
Me talking about Designboost
2007-09-11 13:35:00 Here is a short video about the event Design boost which I’m organising together with my associate Peer Eriksson. Designboost takes place in Malmö October 17th ? November 17th and consists of workshops, lectures/debates and an exhibition. The lectures and debates on the 18th plus exhibition which starts on the 19th are open for the public. ... More About: Events , Future , Sustainability , Talking
Responsible design from Mater
2007-09-09 23:51:00 Mater is a completely new design brand from Denmark that are launching their first collection at the Maison et Objet fair in Paris this week. On top of their great products Mater acts with social responsibility deep in its genes from the start. They have started a foundation that funds social and environmental initiatives conducted ... More About: Design , Products , Sustainability , Social responsibility
Cable management
2007-09-08 12:45:00 New York-based designer Andrea Ruggiero has created Sombrero, a patent-pending cable management solution for hardware manufacturer Doug Mockett & Company, which thoroughly addresses the common problem of cable containment. Design ed to be mounted to the underside of any worksurface, this sombrero-shaped spool reins in unruly cable by winding it around its core and firmly anchoring the ... More About: Products , Management , Innovation , Cable
Designers that want to be artists
2007-09-08 11:07:00 As I wrote about the current design-art trend in my latest David Report bulletin called Vulgarism, a lot of designers suddenly want to be artists. Are they manipulated by the market or is it the other way round? It’s a growing phenomena and I will do a small series called “Design ers that want to be ... More About: Future , Artists , Designers , Artis
New event called Designboost
2007-09-06 14:16:00 Designboost is a new event in Malmö which I’m organising together with Peer Eriksson. The City of Malmö and Region Skåne are involved as interested persons. Designboost is a completely novel concept on the Swedish design market. It will be annual, different, international and will penetrate questions of current interest on design in a broad ... More About: Design , Events , Event , Future , Innovation
Brand new iPods
2007-09-05 23:40:00 Steve Jobs and Apple launched three new iPods earlier today. Gizmodo already made a good review and you can read it by clicking here. Below is another picture of the complete range of iPods, inclusive the iPhone. Ping Intressant.se tags technorati : ipod apple gadget products technology steve jobs ipod touch Andra bloggar om: apple, ipod, steve+jobs, ipod ... More About: Design , Products , Brand , Ipods
Luxury fashion by KR LT STUDIO from Lithuania
2007-09-05 09:18:00 KR LT STUDIO is a brand new Lithuanian luxury fashion brand that recently has launched a collection of handmade linen lounging robes, introducing a new style of dressing for the home. KR LT STUDIO uses the culture, traditions and beauty of their homeland as inspiration to create items and spaces for modern day living. ... More About: Lifestyle , Fashion , Luxury , Trends , Studio
A new design-art spectacle
2007-09-04 08:21:00 As I reported in my latest bulletin called Vulgarism the Frieze Art Fair is starting a “design-art” sister show this year. Originally it was called Design London but the fair showed its real face recently when they announced a new name; DesignArt London. Here are some words which I cut out from their press release: The ... More About: Events
Nice barn style architecture
More articles from this author:2007-09-02 23:12:00 This Porch house by Archteam in Semily, Czech Republic is really nice. I like the simple barn-style architecture a lot. The total metal cladding of roof and walls is simple and gives a distinct look. The house would fit perfectly in my neighborhood in Sweden (and probably at a lot of other different places as ... More About: Design , Architecture , Style , Barn , Nice 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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