This fresh, bold rug by Grizz Design would certainly add a splash of colour to your front room. The design combines playful shapes like spilt paint or strips from a child’s collage, with more regimented pixelated patterns.

Surely this represents the furniture of the future; a re-chargable illuminated table by Clay Designs, only launched this week. The table is the company’s debut piece of ambience liberated furniture, aptly named ‘Squill’ – Square illumination. It is a sculptural, cable-free illuminated coffee table with a charge life of 12 hours which should outlast most social gatherings.

How could we resist photographing these cheeky chaps with their wide puppy dog eyes? Berlin based designer Uta Koloczek has created a gang of colourful Chihuahuas and pugs, redefining the classic idea of the porcelain figurine.

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Tuttotondo is a brand new venture, which will be presenting its first collection at 100%Futures during 100%Design 2011.
Designed in Italy, all products in the collection display unique features that make them stand out.

The Octopus series (see above)of decorative methacrylate lamps comprises; hanging, table, and wall led luminaires.
Owing to the properties of the material, when the lamps are switched on they become almost invisible, while light appears as floating dots,creating intriguing light effects.


Etchi is a simple plywood module with a strong identity. Its name derives from the letters E-T-C-H-I, that can be “read” in its outline. A single module can be used on its own as a small sofa/bedside table or as a stool. Newspapers, magazines, and even a laptop can be stored in the two compartments to the sides of the central structural
element. Because of the dropping sides, whatever is placed in the compartments will hold upright.Alternatively, several modules can be assembled to form a bookcase.

OCTOPUS
The Octopus series of decorative methacrylate lamps comprises
hanging, table, and wall led luminaires.
Owing to the properties of the material, when the lamps are switched
on they become almost invisible, while light appears as floating dots,
creating intriguing light effects.

From The Designer:
Tuttotondo is about designing functional furniture, homeware and lightappliances with a twist in the tail, simple objects that look familiar and yet, different. Tuttotondo is an Italian word borrowed from the Fine Arts. It refers to
sculpture and means full-relief, i.e. something that can be viewed from all angles, that is three-dimensional, complete. The word is also used metaphorically to mean well-rounded, multifaceted, and is a perfect synthesis of the spirit of the house, the idea being that the design process should have consideration for all aspects of an object, and that good design should encompass them all. This is why the products designed at Tuttotondo tend to have a quirky
side to them, but never at the expense of their functional use. They aim to provide simple and effective solutions that are innovative and playful as well as practical, low-tech, and ergonomically sound.

You will be able to see the whole collection from TUTTOTONDO at 100% Design,
Website: www.tuttotondodesign.com

Where did you study design?
I studied ‘Product Design and Innovation’ at UWE in Bristol, they have a great setup there and its a great city.

What was the first thing you designed?
It was probably a very rudimentary samurai sword when I was like 8 or 9, I always wanted one as a kid, so I kept trying to make a realistic one.

How do you define good design?
Good design for me has the users experience at its core, it always has varying degrees of functionality,ergonomics and aesthetics.

What would you be if not a designer?
I think I’d would be a racing driver or mechanic for a car tuning company Fastcar Performance back home in South Africa, was pretty keen on that growing up.

Which design of yours are you most proud of and why?
I designed three theme park installations for the Grand Pier in Weston Super-mare while working for Gravitron Design, I think the Helter Skelter I designed for that is my favourite so far. The scale of the project and the fact that it’s going to be enjoyed by the public for years to come make me particularly proud of that one.

Anything in your career you wish you’d done differently?
I think I would be a bit less compromissing for a few clients if I were to go back, but apart from that nothing.

Which designers do you most admire?
I really admire Calatrava, Ron Arad, SANAA and Marc Newson to name a few.

Which product do you wish you’d designed/do you think is an example of good design?
I wish I’d designed Fords 021c car by Marc Newson, I think it’s a brilliant piece of design.

Tell me about your design style at home?
I’ve got an old victorian/sharp contemporary thing going on at home, but am leaning towards ornate old stuff at the moment.

www.neilmacqueen.com
www.unofuori.com

Scene will be exhibiting their new products at 100% design on Stand L105
here’s a quick glimpse of two of their new products

Website:www.scenedesign.co.uk

Time shelves
Inspired by time and motion the shape of the frame suggests that of an egg timer with the shelves offset at various lengths. ‘Time’ shelves are freestanding solid oak shelves supported by a tubular steel frame available in a range of colours.Dimensions H1640mm x W1580mm x D352mm

Doris nesting tables
‘Doris’, the elegant side table is now accompanied by younger siblings ‘Bridget’ and ‘Ruth’ forming a family of side tables in three different heights. The nesting tables are made from powder coated aluminium each size has an individual milled linear design running over both sides.
Dimensions Doris (Large) H465mm x W420mm x D430mm Bridget (Medium) H445mm x W400mm x D410mm
Ruth (Small) H425mm x W380mm x D390mm

Hook Ups
A series of coat hooks inspired by tape measures enabling you to check your height as well as hang up your coat. Hook Up is made from folded powder coated steel with a screen-printed design and is available in a three heights and colours. They are simple, playful and affordable designs which appeal to children and adults alike. W40mm available in three heights

Drop candle holders
Informed by a graphic abstraction of a wax droplet. The Drop Candle Holder is made from turned timber in three heights and high gloss colours.
Dimensions Large H400mm x D140mm Medium H300mm x D140mm Small H150mm x D140mm
These new products can be seen on
www.scenedesign.co.uk

What made you want to become a designer in the first place?
I never became a designer; I was born one. During primary school I was always dreaming during class hours and building stuff at home.

Where did you study design?
I studied design in Belgium. This country had been my choice because I wanted to have an international education. The education I started was at the Interior Design school called ´Faydherbe Academy´. Apart from this education I also studied in Germany.
During my education of Interior design, they were also teaching the discipline of Furniture design. After a while I began to like that more than Interior design.
This is why I completed a second bachelor in ´Furniture design at the Faydherbe Academy.

What was the first thing you designed?
The first thing I designed took place at the primary school. We had a competition for making a kind of ‘prototype’. While creating that prototype I then felt a sense of the beauty of creating something.

How do you define good design?
To create with less means as possible, a good design.

What would you be if not a designer?
A craftsman, I like to build stuff.

Which design of yours are you most proud of and why?
I think ´Living table´. With this design I won the Eco Design Awards; that opened a lot of doors for me. I also got more self-confidence with the positive comments I received with a view to that design.

Anything in your career you wish you’d done differently?
Up to this moment I am happy with the important decisions I made.

Which designers do you most admire?
That’s Studio Makkink & Bey; their designs are genius and on the cutting edge from functional and visionary.

Which product do you wish you’d designed/do you think is an example of good design?
That would be the `Panthon chair`; it´s elegant, genius and simple. Also a perfect example to get the most out of a material.

Tell me about your design style at home?
If my interior would be experimental design, I guess I would never have any rest. In fact my interior is more or less ´grandma style´, meaning for me: totally rest.

www.floriswubben.nl

I actually thought about this for a while and it is not a bad assumption. I think it is true that those toys helped me learn a lot of essential skills: how to imagine things; how to solve problems; how to realise the things in my head and most importantly, playing with Lego blocks taught me that nothing around us is never perfect, I can always make improvements to my Lego creations. And also, I never liked to follow the manuals.


Where did you study?

I studied Architecture at the Architectural Association and Product Design at the Royal College of Art, both in London.

What was the first thing you ever designed?

When I was kid, I remember combining different sets of plastic kits with glues to create things which were clearly not in any of the instruction booklets. I can’t remember what they were but I do remember being satisfied with the results.

How would you define good design?

A good design is one that gives satisfaction to both the creator and the user for a long time.

What would you be if you were not a designer?

A carpenter or maybe a repair man. I did-up refurbished my house a few years ago and I found it very rewarding.

Which one of your designs are you most proud of and why?

I am always proud of my latest creation, but then I soon get bored with it, even embarrassed to talk about it.

Is there anything in your career you wish you’d done differently?

I’m happy with my current career path and I’m glad to have studied architecture and design. I’m also glad to have worked as an architect in a large office. I plan to continue developing a career in both architecture and design in the future.

Which designers do you most admire?

The architect Frie Otto is my hero. I’ve learned so much from his work. I also like the work of Rem Koolhaas and Nicolas Grimshaw – they are just fantastic.

Which product do you wish you’d designed/do you think is an example of good design?

The main station in Stuttgart, designed in 1997. The building was designed by the architectural company Ingenhoven Overdiek working in partnership with Frei Otto. For me, that building is just great.

And of course Lego bricks!

Tell me about the design style of your home.

I don’t have a particular design style, or at least not intentionally. When I design something, I try to find the most suitable manufacturing methods and aesthetics for its purpose. Maybe that’s why my house and my workshop look so eclectic in terms of design styles.

British Architect and designer Il Hoon Roh studied architecture for five years and received an AA diploma from the Architectural Association School of Architecture and Design Product Masters degree at Royal College of Art in London. Il Hoon Roh has been working as an architect at Foster and Partners and LDY in London until he resumed his passion for furniture design in the beginning of 2010. Il Hoon Roh is currently working as both architect & designer in London and plan to continue combining two professions in the future.

Website:www.ILHOON.com
You can catch him on stand K110 at 100% design

Where did you study design?
University of South Australia

What was the first thing you designed?
D: One man hallway cricket

E: adventure parks (made from toilet rolls) for my pet rats

How do you define good design?
“just nice”

meaning: you like it when you see it, and there isn’t a over-embellished story to convince you to.

What would you be if not a designer?
D: Professional Sportsman (most probably play for the Chicago Bulls)

E: Librarian


Paperweight

Which design of yours are you most proud of and why?
D: Paperweight, it’s new

E: Thermometer

Anything in your career you wish you’d done differently?
D: Less stress

E: I wouldn’t change a thing!

Which designers do you most admire?
D: Ralph Lauren

E: Professor Henry J. Petroski (designer of the paperclip)

Which product do you wish you’d designed/do you think is an example of good design?
D: itty bitty bins

E: paperclip

Tell me about your design style at home?
D: Well arranged

E: Organised chaos

BIO
We (Daniel To and Emma Aiston) met whilst studying Industrial Design at the University of South Australia. After both graduating in 2007, we spent almost 2 years gaining experience with various design studios in London, such as Marc Newson, Thorsten Van Elten and Committee. From here we established Daniel Emma and exhibited our first collection ‘shapes’ in London and Tokyo. After moving back home (Adelaide), we then returned to London to exhibit our second collection ‘solids’ last year.
During this time we have been listed by Wallpaper* magazine in 2009 as one of the recent design graduates to watch as well as coming runners up in last years Bombay Sapphire Australian Design Discovery award, the most prestigious design award in Australia.

www.daniel-emma.com
Find out more about Daniel-Emma at 100% design here

What made you become a designer?
I just followed a path where I could make things all the time. I still make things

Where did you study design?
University of Plymouth – Exeter campus

What was the first thing you designed?
A bit embarrassing but when I was very young I had a fascination with making cardboard telephones, loads of them, all different styles and colours. Weird I know.

How do you define good design?
Simplicity and longevity. Everything should be made to last

What would you be if you weren’t a designer?
A goat farmer, for meat not cheese, I saw a programme on it and I have always wanted to be a farmer’s wife, have kids (excuse the pun) running around covered in mud!

Which design of yours are you most proud of?
I don’t think I am there yet, I am a bit fickle like that. I create something, love it and then think, what’s next? I create that, and then love it, so on and so on. The piece that furthered my career, helped me get onto a business placement was the Manhole Cover Bath mat. A bit gimmicky looking back but it certainly helped me along the way so I am proud of that.

Anything in your career you wish you had done differently?
I wished I forced myself to use the workshops more at uni, they were a great gift and I am kicking myself for not gaining all the knowledge that was offered. I am catching up now though, and learning to grasp every opportunity to learn a new skill, you never know when it will come in handy!

Any designers you most admire?
The Danes. All the designers who worked for Ercol back in the day, oh and Michael Marriott

Tell me about your design style at home?
Eclectic, changeable- as I am always discovering new things and bringing them home, my boyfriend goes mad ‘not another thing’, they are all from second hand shops of course. That is where I get my inspiration; I love auction houses and second hand shops.

We have a large framed picture of the queen from her coronation in the loo and dotted around our very
small flat (it is like a caravan without wheels) is a collection of embroidered banners that come from the local village hall. They are all from the annual plays that were held. My favourite one that hangs on the door of the bathroom says ‘such things happen’ 1954.

We love red, turquoise, grey, black and wood. There is always a fresh bunch of local flowers on the blue Formica kitchen table.

I do not keep anything I make but I might treat myself, when I get time to a watermelon sideboard.

Website: www.lucyturner.co.uk

Where did you study design?
I studied at Falmouth and Kingston Universities.

What was the first thing you designed?
When I was a child I used to spend hours and hours drawing impossible houses and cars, I wanted to be an architect. Then when I was about ten I designed a desk that my father had made specially, it was terrible, much too high.



How do you define good design?
My idea of good design for what I create is things that are simple, beautiful and functional with an intelligent awareness of manufacture and making. But this is just for me sometimes I like it when other people create things which are bombastic and loud or just fun.

What would you be if not a designer?
Something medical, it’s in my genes… or a shopkeeper with a brown apron or a baker I love baking bread.

Which design of yours are you most proud of and why?
Currently my ball joint lamp, which simply exploits the nature of its manufacturing process to create a functional and charming object that is a pleasure to use.

Anything in your career you wish you’d done differently?
Not yet…

Which designers do you most admire?
I really admire Alex Moulton for his commitment to constantly refining his designs, even now at the age of ninety he is still improving and developing products that he first began sixty years ago.

Which product do you wish you’d designed/do you think is an example of good design?
Last summer I spent three months working out in Sri Lanka where they use this fantastic spoon for serving food. It is made from a section of coconut shell with two holes made into which a roughly hewn handle is wedged. It must in fact be a vernacular object that has evolved slowly over time… probably these are the best products.

Tell me about your design style at home?
I have an eclectic mix of things that I have found, bought or made. I just moved into a huge new studio with massive ceilings and hardwood floors which we will sadly have to divide up into separate rooms. Its quite tempting to leave is as one big space and forgo privacy. I find it very difficult to walk past things that I find in the street so am constantly fighting my urges to fill my space with scraps of wood, broken furniture and interesting bits of plastic. Slowly I am acquiring a collection of chairs which are of a decent quality that I hope will stay with me for a long time, I have a fifties Parker Knoll armchair, a Møller chair number 75, a Jasper Morrison Air Chair and a lovely Ercol.

PROJECT:‘SOCKET LIGHT & SPUN’
The judges remarked on his ‘good process; strong use of industrial materials which is original and utilitarian. James demonstrated passion and drive to succeed as a commercial designer.’
‘I am passionate about keeping the art of spinning alive as it is, like much British industry, dying out. I worked with a sixth generation spinner on my collection,’ explained James. He wants to set up a shop and design consultancy with a colleague from his course. Meanwhile in the lead up to 100% Design in September he says, ‘I will endeavour to make my stand as good as possible and develop my designs and products ready for September. It’s a fantastic opportunity – it’s the biggest show of its kind. I am overwhelmed to have won and feel like all the hard work has paid off.’

Website:jamesmichaelshaw.co.uk/