Louise Campbell is the featured designer on dkVogue.com, a large source for Danish design that introduces modern, authentic Danish furnishings, lighting and accessories to North America.
Bille goes Zen - Cabinet maker Lars Bille Christensen (2003/2006)
Louise Campbell’s work is playful and experimental, and is increasingly gaining a reputation for gently twisting not only every day objects and situations, but also materials and manufacturing processes in new directions. The combination of Scandinavian rationalism and femininity, and perhaps her dual nationality (Danish and British), give the works of Louise Campbell an unusual edge. Illustrating contrasts seem to be an issue, that keeps returning in her work.
'Spiderwoman' - HAY (2008) 'Retreat' (1998)
'Seesaw' and 'Entertainment' - Erik Jørgensens Møbelfabrik (2002)
'Veryround' - Zanotta (2006) 'Prince Chair' - HAY (2005)
British manufacturing company Established & Sons has become renowned for its original approach since its first launching during the Milan Furniture Fair in 2005. They are constantly looking to innovate and their intention remains today just the same as it was then - to produce the highest quality furniture designs and work with the very best emerging design talents as well as established contemporary designers.
Here are some of the new designs that have been launched at this year's Milan fair.
'Crate series' by Jasper Morrisson
'Torch' by Sylvain Willenz
'Frame' by Wouter Scheublin 'Pole Light' by Paul Cocksedge
At the Light&Building fair, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors and Ingo
Maurer have unveiled a revolutionary lighting application based on
OLEDs. The company has made prototypes of organic light emitting diodes
available to the designer for his exclusive creation.
“We are
proud that our OLEDs have inspired such a renowned artist as Ingo
Maurer to create such an exciting work of art. “Early Future” is a
vision that has become reality. It gives us a glimpse of just how
versatile organic OLEDs can be in terms of their design options and
applications”, said Martin Goetzeler, CEO of OSRAM.
The renowned lighting designer Ingo Maurer is the first to use organic LEDs (OLEDs) from OSRAM in a function table light. The light, called “Early Future”, is being produced as a limited edition. It works with tiles straight from the laboratory and demonstrates the enormous potential of OLEDs for future applications as eye-catching illumination and design elements.
For Maurer, unusual design is not an end in itself. “Early Future
represents an important stage in the transition from abstract object to
functional designer lighting”, he said. Maurer has been shaping
developments in light as art and lighting design for many years. In
1966 he exhibited the designer luminaire Bulb which has been on show in
the New York Museum of Modern Art since 1969 along with other works of
his. Ingo Maurer has received numerous awards for his avant-garde work
with light.
Organic LEDs offer all the familiar benefits of LEDs such as high energy efficiency, low operating voltage and mercury-free design. The light source is not a collection of individual light points but a uniform light-generating surface.
Each time the name of IKEA appears on Design Addict, there are voices which rise to attack or defend the Swedish firm. To the clans of IKEA lovers and IKEA haters, one apparently has to add IKEA hackers, already present since a while on the Web. On Ikeahacker, speakers share their experiments of customisation and diversion of IKEA furniture. The level is very irregular, but some ideas are worth the visit.
Adam from Boston posted this cheap but functional laptop desk, hacked from IKEA's Benjamin stool.
This sofa table was made from bamboo plywood and salvaged legs from IKEA's Imfors table.
Another poster used inexpensive Regolit lamp from IKEA, some wool and
some glue to create lamps inspired by the beautiful MOOOI’s Random
lamps.
This is the first ever energy saving lamp purposely designed to suit fixtures where existing energy-savers could not be used and giving excellent light quality. The lamp helps energy without compromising the light or visual effect of the lighting installation.
The lamp saves 50% energy, is dimmable, has an instant start and a lifespan of 3 years.
This new product might interest Design Addict readers who have vintage lamps but could not find energy saving lamps to fit in.
'Helsinki Lighthouse' - designed by Timo Salli for Saas Instruments, 2006
Design Forum Finland presents a fresh selection of Finnish design lamps and light fittings. The exhibition space provides living room of light, an experience of interior atmosphere created by different types of lamps and sources of light. The showing particularly emphasizes sources of light making use of state-of-the-art technology and the latest materials.
Lighting is of prime importance in conditions of limited daylight. Lamps and light fittings are also important elements of interior design, creating solutions of atmosphere or enhancing the functionality and safety of space. The degree and type of lighting can easily be adapted to personal needs. This is best done by using several lamps of different type in a space. Ecologically minded consumers will choose light sources that can reduce energy consumption.
'Overpass' - designed by Anu Penttinen for Nounou Design, 2007
'Innosol Origo' designed by Eero Aarnio for Innojok Oy, 2007
'Double Bubble' designed by Eero Aarnio for Melaja Oy, 2003
'Atto' designed by Seppo Koho for Secto Design Oy, 2007
'340Y' designed by Yrjö Kukkapuro and Henrik Enbom for Saas Instruments, 2007
'Tre' designed by Elina Järvinen for Selki-asema, 2007
'In This Light' exhibition at Design Forum Finland opens up a theme that is important to Finns and will be addressed later also from an international perspective. The following companies, among others, are participating in the showing: Doctor Design, Innojok, Korpihete Lighting Design, Melaja Oy, Nounou Design, Saas Instruments, Secto Design and Selki-asema. The featured designers are Eero Aarnio, Elina Järvinen, Seppo Koho, Jukka Korpihete, Yrjö Kukkapuro & Henrik Enbom, Mikko Laakkonen, Carola Lindh-Hormia, Mikko Paakkanen, Anu Penttinen, Heikki Ruoho, Timo Salli, Petri Vainio and Jari-Petri Voutilainen.
The exhibition will include a lecture and discussion on LED lighting design, which has been studied by Sami Suihkonen, preparing his doctorate in technology in the subject.
Exhibition: In this Light – New Finnish lamp design 25 January –17 February 2008 Design Forum Finland (Space1) Erottajankatu 7, Helsinki - Finland Free entrance
French designers from Normalstudio are presenting their products at Salon Now!
'Paysages' - Ligne Roset - 2008 Issued from a research initiated by the CRAFT (Limoges), "Paysages" is a dinnerware set of 7 pieces. This collection is developed and distributed by Ligne Roset and Revol porcelaine.
Adaptor/Lamp in Corian - Forum Diffusion, Paris - 2004 It is a block that you can place on a table, the wire is rolled around its base. One can place a Corian socket as one wishes.
Maison & Objet (Now! Design à Vivre) Paris-Nord Villepinte January 25 - 29 2008
On display at IMM Cologne, Sparkler is a wall-mounted lamp designed by Niels Bak Rasmussen for oioi. The slender funnel-shaped tube containing the light source sits in a rotating ball, which enables you to direct the light in any direction. The reading light is optimized to give you precisely targeted light for privacy. Swivel the holder 180 degrees and you also have an uplighter. The lamp is turned on and off simply by touching it.
The lighting company oioi was founded by Niels Bak Rasmussen in 2004.
I would like to introduce you to the work of Kwangho Lee young designer from Seoul, Korea. He works on various design projects under the concept of “Ordinary objects can become something else”.
In his work, he talks about two things. One is about the search for possible changes and new meanings in the most ordinary objects of our daily lives. He believes that many of them have boundless capabilities of transforming into something else. The project “OROBS (Ordinary objects can become something else)” is somewhat a moto of his work and many comes from his childhood experiences and you’ll find the most ordinary things which you are so familiar with. By little (or it may be big) transformations they make, the objects gain new meanings with only one purpose/function. Second is to express the symphony of design and craft. His projects never encounter machinery process. Therefore only small quantities are ‘crafted’ out of his hands.
Weave your lighting The biggest inspiration of this lighting is his mother’s knitting hobbies during his childhood. Her knitted sweaters and gloves reminds him of the good days of his childhood. He saw the neat pile of electric wires as yarns and soon decided to knit (weave) his own. Other than knitting with needles, he developed a new way of weaving the rubber but solid wires into long, scarf-like or brush-like form of lightings. They are weaved by one long wire which varies in length—from 10 to 300 meters.
Zip (rice straw stool) The remains after the harvesting season in farms are large bundles of rice straw. It used to be his favorite playground. These rice straws are something very familiar to Koreans although you don’t reside in farms. He made a bundle and wrapped them with belts that are normally used to stabilize boxes or furniture etc (ex: when moving out), cut the top off into a stool. He called this ‘zip’ because rice straws are called zip in Korean which also sounds like the English word ‘zip’ and the rice straws are literally zipped (compressed) into a bundle.
The Plumen low energy light bulb prototype is a reaction to the lack of real diversity, imagination and personality offered by the market today.
Despite there being an abundance of producers, we see only three basic bulb formats available: the Radiator, the Tungsten-esc types and the Ice Cream Whip.
Surely the tubular formation of these objects should be used to its' advantage, drawing, sculpting or scrawling in the air with light, turning these afterthoughts into centrepieces and perhaps in the process creating designs that people will buy through genuine desire rather than mere moral obligation.
Hulger (formerly known as Pokia) is a London based boutique electronics company which explored the possibilities allowed by the tubular material. Hulger are open for discussions with bulb manufacturers with a view to creating the first production Plumen series.
The Twist design references and subverts the ubiquitous Radiator.
The Freeform example elongates the Plumen's configuration, adding a chaotic tangle into the slender shape, a format well suited for a corner light.
Flattening the tube creates another exciting set of possibilities, the example here presented as the Ribbon idea, an arrangement of two flattened tubes, one folding inside the other.
Ball is constructed with haphazard loops like a ball of wool, wrapped around a glass core.
