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The Crafts Council’s new CraftCube programme offers a new way to see and learn about contemporary craft by offering visitors a virtual experience of makers’ studios and the chance to interact with craft objects.
The inaugural Paris Deco Off expo is showcasing some of the best interior design on the continent. The quality across the board at Paris Deco Off has been top notch, with French and English classics including Edmond Petit, Nobilis, Osborne & Little and Sanderson.
Bold, experimental and inventive, Ron Arad defies categorisation. This internationally acclaimed London-based maverick is variously described as a designer, architect and artist. Ron Arad: Restless is the first major exhibition of Arad’s work in the UK. It opens at Barbican Art Gallery on 18 February 2010
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This year Vitsoe celebrated their 50th year we met up with Mark Adams Vitsoe’s Managing Director to talk to him about the qualities that have sustained Vitsoe through 50 years and what their plans are for the future.
Across the globe, there is a growing awareness of design and its impact on the world we inhabit. Like contemporary art, design both shapes and reflects our constantly changing society. Good design understands human behaviour, offers pragmatic solutions to problems and enhances our everyday experience.
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Thinking caps on because this takes some imagination to digest. The HMK 561 is a carbon fiber bike with special electrical properties that hold power right inside the frame.
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Designers at WAGAii have beeen considering how to cut cake. Each box of Petals consists of a single plastic flower. With it, you can cut a cake perfectly into 3, 4, 6, 12, 5, 7, 8, 9, or 10 pieces.
You can either use the pedals of the flower (the top,) or the leaves of the flower (along the stem.)
If you use the petals (the top,) you can cut the cake into 3, 4, 6, or 12 pieces, as each pedal spans 30 degrees. All you’ve got to do is insert the top of the flower into the cake and keep it in place, cutting then between whichever pedals make sense for you.
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Zee table made entirely of Corian .Series of complement tables, characterized by the geometry and subtlety of design. Structure, materials and finishes: Individual elements in flat sheets of Corian® (12mm), polished bright.
Colors: Glacier White, Everest White, Night Sky Black and Red Hot.
Dimensions Low Zee 37 x 37 x 42h (cm) High Zee 37 x 37 x 47h (cm)
Website:www.enzoanziani.com
A table designed by Diego Giacometti sold for £106,000 at Bonhams, New Bond Street today (10 March 2010), as part of its Post War and Contemporary Art and Design sale. Entitled Table Torsade, and cast circa 1965, it had belonged to the late English actor James Mason (1909-1984) since the late1960s.
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Founded in 2008, Eco-Kids is the brainchild of mother and former nanny Cammie Weeks. Cammie explains that she and her husband
“realized the need for safe and natural art supplies and toys,” so the duo began selling their sustainable dough at farmers markets throughout California and eventually expanded the collection to include a bevvy of environmentally-friendly, all-natural art supplies and toys.
Just in time for Easter, Eco-Kids recently introduced an Easter egg coloring kit that includes the same fruit and vegetable colours and two soy crayons for fancy decorations.
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Good Magazine highlights a new illustration from Sam Loman that incorporates subway design into a map of the human body.
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The OO is a wireless projector by David Riesenberg capable of displaying high definition (1080p) data. Utilizing either a WIFI connection or internal SSD storage, the projector can operate independently from any wire for up to 3 hours based on an internal Li-Ion battery or using a single wire connected to a power source. With the combination of WIFI and internal storage, the OO can act as both an extender/duplicator of an external display or as a wireless media projector/streamer with built in decoding capabilities. The three independently articulated legs allow the OO to be tilted for optimal positioning. Full interaction with the projector is done via the touch screen remote but the projector can be operated without it in extender/duplicator mode after pre-configuration.
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Parsons The New School for Design recently launched the website The Copyright Corner.
Developed by Michelle Bogre, an associate professor in the photography program of the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons, it is intended as a place for debate and dialogue about copyright and other important intellectual property issues.
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