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posted yesterday by DesignAddict.
Designed in-house by designer Willem Heeffer, Fuse 'Can Lights' are constructed from discarded and salvaged Heinz Beanz cans and Campbell's Soup cans.
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With the help of Dublin’s many restaurants and cafés who collect the tin
cans, these everyday waste objects are turned into functional pendant
lights. The lights celebrate the cross over between popular culture and
sustainability.
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Fuse 'Can Lights' are on sale at Fuse Finds only.
We invite you to visit Fuse face book page.
tags: new products, sustainable, lighting
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posted 6 days ago by DesignAddict.
The exhibition is based on the principles of clarity, concept and
context, featuring a selection of recent works by Feiz
design studio. Projects include: Palma for Offecct; Giannina coffee
family for Giannini; Swinxs interactive toy for Swinxs; Luna
candleholder for Phase Design; and Wip chair, Tak lamp and Flowertower
for Feiz Design Studio.
The exhibition: Khodi Feiz . Clarity. Concept. Context will be visible
during the festival Design Act Moscow from
August 31 to September 5 2010.
'Luna' for Phase Design
A candleholder which is infinite in it’s configuration, allowing you to compose it the way you want. It is composed of two interlocking arms which articulate along a central axis. This also allows the arms to be separated and packed flat.
'Deft' and 'A-line' are 2 chairs he designed for Geiger (a Herman Miller company) launched at NEOCON 2010.
'Deft'
'A-line'
tags: new products, wood, exhibitions, furniture, accessories
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posted on August 24 by DesignAddict.
"Onedown" is a human rat trap, working on the Bop Toy principle. It creates a new visual association to the usual rat trap.
Aakash Dewan is a third year Industrial Design student form ISD ( International School of Design) Pune, India.
Via YankoDesign
tags: project, ceramic, accessories
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posted on August 18 by DesignAddict.
Designed by Florian Pucher, Land Carpet is is a rug inspired by nature
and farmed landscapes. Based on satellite images, it shows the world
from above, as we usually see it only out of the window of a plane.
Land
Carpet is hand-tufted from New Zealand wool.
Europe
Africa
USA
Netherlands
tags: rugs, new products
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posted on August 12 by DesignAddict.
Christine Outram and a team of MIT students are the US winners of the James Dyson Award competition with their Copenhagen Wheel – a wheel that turns a regular bike into a smart, electric hybrid.
This teched-out wheel allows riders to capture the energy dissipated
when breaking and cycling and save it for when they need a boost. Like
most cutting-edge technology, the Copenhagen Wheel is controlled through
a rider’s smart phone.
Developed by a small team of students at the SENSEable City Lab, MIT, The Copenhagen Wheel is a new emblem for sustainable urban mobility that improves the cycling experience, offers a cost-effective transportation alternative to cars and fosters a community of cyclists in cities. Smart, responsive and elegant, it transforms existing bicycles quickly into hybrid electric-bikes with regeneration and real-time sensing capabilities.
Its sleek red hub not only contains a motor, batteries and an internal gear system – helping cyclists overcome hilly terrains and long distances - but also includes environmental and location sensors that provide data for cycling-related mobile applications. Cyclists can use this data to plan healthier bike routes, to achieve their exercise goals or to create new connections with other cyclists. Through sharing their data with friends or their city, they are also contributing to a larger pool of information from which the whole community can benefit.
tags: transportation, outdoor, sport, awards
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posted on August 11 by DesignAddict.
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The 1960s was an optimistic era of unprecedented change, and its heady
zeitgeist was captured in the amazing range of artwork that adorned the
magazines of the time.
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Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s is a colossal survey of magazine
artwork from the Swinging Sixties. It not only provides revelatory
insight into the extraordinary artistic talents of the illustrators
featured--such as Austin Briggs, Lynn Buckham, Antonio Lopez and Coby
Whitmore--but also tellingly elucidates the social aspirations of this
era of political optimism and sexual freedom.
Featuring over 1,000 inventive and stylistically diverse illustrations, the book traces the decade's dizzyingly swift evolution from the homemaking ethos of romantic coupledom to the stylish liberation of mini-skirted Chelsea girls and the psychedelic palette that evolved towards the decade's close, conjuring a fabulous and euphoric pageant of 1960s pop culture from rediscovered artworks by the very best illustrators of the day.
An inspirational sourcebook for contemporary designers and fans of 1960s culture.
Book for sale on Amazon: Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s - Author: Rian Hughes - Fiell Publishing
tags: graphic, books
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posted on July 16 by DesignAddict.
New Designers is an annual London showcase for recent design graduates, returning this month for its tenth year.
The New Designer of the Year award went to Tortie Hoare, a furniture, design and craftsmanship student from Bucks University, for her project 'Leatherwork Furniture Collection'.
Judges Comments:
The judges celebrated Tortie’s ‘innovation, personal passion and an incredible sensitivity to materials which has reinvented a lost process from medieval times to produce an outstanding collection of contemporary furniture.’
Now, instead of trying to find a job, Tortie has decided to pursue her leatherwork and see where it takes her. She will be spending some of the prize monies on leather for a new collection.
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“I have never had a reaction like this,’ said Tortie. ‘I have been
shocked by the interest. With all of my furniture I have used the
process of forming leather to dictate the piece. It was not until I came
across the French medieval process of boiled leather that I could
create solid, strong forms in an eco-friendly way. “
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Photographs by Ed Reeve
via iconeye
tags: project, leather, wood, furniture, awards
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posted on July 6 by DesignAddict.
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Douglas Rollins and Tim Boyle, founder and co-founder of brinca dada,
design "toys that parents love to look at and children love to play
with".
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The Emerson House is a great home for the modern family. The home has six rooms including a living room, kitchen, library/office, master bedroom, bathroom and child's bedroom.
With its large, open floor plan and floor-to-ceiling windows, the modern house features many extras including mitered-glass corners, two fireplaces, sliding glass doors, solar panels, and recessed LED lights.
Finally, the house is easy on the environment with only non-toxic and lead-free wood stains and paints.
The living room set creates the perfect atmosphere for entertaining guests, reading a good book or relaxing with family.
Not just any doll would feel at home in the Emerson House. The Modern
Family is sleek and minimalist.
tags: modern architecture, toys, furniture, kids
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