Dent Cube, new from Inax, is a three-dimensional porcelain stoneware cladding that can be used indoors or out to create a unique wall treatment with custom possibilities.
The collection, developed with the help of architect and designer Teruo Yasuda, includes tiles with special insets into which you can insert glass tiles of various colors (or moss!). Create your own pattern by placing the flat and dented tiles in specific places and use the colored glass inserts to customize it even more.
All images courtesy of Maezm
Korean design group Maezm has conducted an experiment which explores the possibilities of hanji, a traditional paper substance, in a modern setting. based off their research and development, they have created an alternative material that has the qualities of plastic without being toxic.
Creative timepiece manufacturers tokyo flash have just released the Kisai Seven’, a tron-like watch that displays the time via pulsing LED rings. A slightly darkened segment along each ring depicts the place of the hour (inner ring) and minute (outer ring). an L-shaped light segment along the wrist indicates with greater precision the number of minutes, filling up with more light to illustrate the numbers one through four.
The Kisai Seven’ features three different LED light-up modes: continuous, automatically very thirty seconds, or automatically every five minutes.
At 100%Design some of the African & African-Caribbean Design Diaspora Designers transformed a 96sq metre space and created a playful and eclectic sitting area – the “Re-Loved Lounge” used African and African-Caribbean design inspiration in fabrics, colour schemes and accessories.
The brief for the AACDD designers had been to ‘re-love’ and ‘up-cycle’ discarded furniture transforming it once again into desirable objects for the home thus challenging the ethos of a throw-away consumer society.
The ‘Re-Loved’ Lounge at 100% Design.
Carlos Couturier serves as creative force and is Managing Partner at Grupo HABITA which owns and/or manages Hotel Básico, Condesadf, DESEO [Hotel + Lounge], HABITA Monterrey, La Purificadora, Hotel Habita, hotel Boca Chica, and Distrito Capital lifestyle hotels in MEXICO. He also solely owns and operates Azucar and Maison Couturier in Veracruz.
In England, Homebase promises to “Make a House a Home” and in France, one “can count on” Mr. Bricolage (note the English pronoun) to sort the week-end.
A Google image search visualizes the difference between DIY and Bricolage. Where a search for the former yields photographs of PVC conservatory extensions, diagrams on how to make urine fertilizer and images of obscure electronic circuit boards, the latter displays colourful tile mosaics, needlework patterns and ornamental jewellery boxes.
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Patrick Perrin and Stéphane Custot are pleased to announce the final selection of participants for the fifth edition of the Pavilion of Art & Design London. Bringing together an incredible set of 57 galleries from 11 countries to its prime location on Berkeley Square, PAD London 2011 promises to be the strongest edition of the fair since its inception in 2007. A rigorous selection process introduces to London the best dealers from Europe and North America within the fields of Modern Art, Design, Decorative Arts, Photography and Tribal Art from 1860 to today.
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Inside Playful Minds at the Arts Gallery, University of the
Arts London,through to 28 October. Take a sensory journey into the collective imagination of Physical Pixels, from initial pixel to giant interactive installation. For London Design Festival 2011 the Arts Gallery invites you to immerse yourself in an environment that offers the greatest rewards to the most adventurous players; from plants that whisper to your touch and walls that shift shape, Inside Playful Minds at the Arts Gallery entices with designs that play to all the senses. Further information at: newsevents.arts.ac.uk/
Image:Gavin Turk – Egg Seat 2008
Ideal Home at Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Through to 22nd October. This exhibition, organised as part of the London Design Festival and the Icon Design Trail 2011, brings together work by over 50 artists and designers made across 98 years from 1913 to 2011 exploring the increasingly blurred boundaries between art and daily life. Further information at: newsevents.arts.ac.uk/event/ideal-home/
Image:Alistair Hanson Wooden Fire Extinguisher 2011
These bottle tops were created by Korean industrial designer Junggi Sung as part of a collection named ‘Positive Piece’. The collection aims to encourage viewers to think more deeply about the fundamental elements we take for granted in our daily lives such as air water, wind and earth.
The top of Sung’s ‘Uncomfortale Bottle’ imitates the shape of a conventional water tap and was designed in order to make people think more carefully about how they use tap water. Sung explains; “Recently, drinking water out of PET bottles has become the norm…yet we can still easily drink water out of the tap. This design aims to inspire us to be more cost and energy-efficient and also to take simple actions for our environment. This is a positive piece.”
Find out more at www.junggisung.com
The fourth exhibiting year for Korea at 100%Design sees the country showcase established designers and brands alongside what the government has considered the designers of the future. The cohesion across the stand is the prevalence of lighting and furniture designs, compliments and accents for the home.
This year, the stand has been divided between established and emergent design and the support given to their “Next Generation Design Leaders” has resulted in a stand which feels fresh and diverse. The investment in young designers has secured two Blueprint awards for chairs from Shin Taiho and Kihyun Kim.
Kihyun Kim’s 1.3 Chair won the Blueprint prize for ‘Best Use of Materials’ and employs fast growing Balsa Wood to create a chair which is exceptionally light (just 1.3 kgs) as well as environmentally sustainable. Kihyum Kim has worked with the traits of the material, strengths and weaknesses, to create the chair, in a reinterpretive process involving traditional craft techniques in harmony with the development of alternative industrial methods.
As a country stand, this feels like one exhibiting real characteristic traits across the products on show. Innovative and foregrounding the combination of modern and traditional materials to subtle effect, the support of the government is placing Korea at the fore of emergent design talent.
Everyone’s talking about Maximo Riera’s animal chair collection at 100%Design today…
Rhino chair by Maximo Riera at #100design. You'd feel pretty powerful putting your feet up in this bad boy... http://yfrog.com/nz5a9oj
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Very exited to announce that the exhibition has started! http://yfrog.com/hwgggvcj
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