Sawdust – Experimental Typography And Clean, Clear Communication
Sawdust, an independent design duo based in London, is the award-winning creative partnership of Rob Gonzalez and Jonathan Quainton. Their approach in design has earned them a worldwide reputation for creating visually striking work that is thoughtful, innovative and meticulously crafted. The studio picked their name because of its associations with carpentry and craftsmanship: "It’s about …
Stromer, The Power Servant
nju studio created he power servant Stromer. The latest electronic devices seem to reform our lifes in independence and mobility. But in the end all those gadgets need to be supplied with power. It is unnecessary to stoop down for low-mounted sockets: the power servant Stromer is a both comfortable and flexible furniture for your …
The Animal Pocket Knife
The Animal Pocket Knife ($TBA) by Israeli designer David Suhami is a stainless steel and wood wildlife versions of the traditional Swiss Army Knife. With handles made from fine Ipe wood and blades silhouetted to look like an Antelope, a Rhino and a Giraffe, complete with legs and tails, the pocket knives are adorable. In …
Coffee Tables Made Of An Art Crate
Crateive is a small furniture London based design studio by Bartek Stanny. The idea on which the studio built its collection was conceived few years ago. Stanny uses art crates that finished their life cycle and after travelling many miles to art fairs, galleries and clients around the world came to retire in London. He …
Bare Bones Concrete Dominoes
In collaboration with lifestyle brand Billy Reid, The Principals re-designed the classic “double 6” domino set. Named Bare Bones ($55) after the raw feeling of the concrete they are cast from; the dominoes have been rethought in terms of shape, weight and numbering to produce a beautifully designed family of objects. The "bones" are handmade …
The Southern Sky Silkscreen Print
The Map No. II - The Southern Sky silkscreen print by German designer Steffen Heidemann and Viktoria Klein is an amazing depiction of the southern sky in all its glorious details. The handsigned artwork stellar map is manually pulled on solid-colored Gmund Color System, 200g/m2. The first run is limited to 500 pieces. ❚…
The Adobe “Project Napoleon” Digital Ruler
The Digital Ruler code named Napoleon by Adobe Lab is designed to bring back some of the feeling of drawing with analog tools like the t-square and triangle. "Adobe has been talking about building a physical drawing aid like this ever since we built our first digital drafting table, almost two years ago," says Michael Gough, …
Parabola Chair Exhibits Curvatures In Two Directions: Hyperbolic Paraboloid
The design intention of the chrome-plated steel Parabola Chair by Los Angeles-based product designer Carlo Aiello was to create a simple and porous yet highly sculptural chair. "The challenge was to achieve a single surface that serves as seating, armrest, and backrest supported by a minimal structure," says Aiello who graduated from the Graduate School of …
Things Come Apart
In Things Come Apart (Thames & Hudson, ISBN 978-0500516768, $29.95) Todd McLellan’s unique photographic vision of the material world fifty design classics—arranged first by size and then by intricacy—are beautifully displayed, piece by piece, exploding in midair and dissected in real-time, frame-by-frame video stills. This teardown manual makes visible the inner workings of some of …
Solo Folio – An Intimate Collaboration Of Art And Design
Industrial Facility designed an annual limited-edition project for Toluca Editions where they unite an artist, a writer and a designer. The artist prepares six photographs, the writer contributes poetry with a relationship to the art, and the designer proposes a box or case to complete it. It is an intimate collaboration of art and design, …
Morpholio App – Tools For Presentation
The Morpholio Project is a group of applications that reinvent creative processes for designers, artists, photographers and any imaginative individual. Morpholio (free download, in-app purchase available) is a unique portfolio utility that evolves with you and Trace (free download, in-app purchase available) is a tool for hands-on thinking and building new ideas. Morpholio re-imagines your …
Manoteca Indoor Table
"I really like the idea that in every object is held somebody's life," says Elisa Cavani. Her indoor design Manoteca gives us a feeling what she's been thinking of. The Italian handmade table is furthermore a desk and a door to creativity. If closed, it's a dining table for 8 people. If open, it's a …
Little Love Medical
No one wants to be in the hospital and most people do not like to get an infusion. After all, Little Love Medical removable decorative decals are designed for the back of IV Bags to make your stay as pleasant as possible by adding bursts of color. With 20 designs to this everyday hospital product, …
LifeHub – One Device To Rule Them All
LifeHub is one gadget rules them all by India based Lucid Design. "We created LifeHub as a way of sorting out the madness associated with owning and managing multiple objects and devices in our lives," says Amit Mirchandani. You have your watches, phone, headsets, keys, wallet, bluetooth speakers and your televisions, all of which take …
Signs Of Our Times – A Monumental Logo Collection
Logobook (Taschen, ISBN 978-3836534130, $59.99) by Ludovic Houplain, the founder of design studio, gives us a great resource library of logo designs andbranding. Houplain conducted an extensive year-long research project, collecting over 40,000 symbols and trademarks that represent our world today. The monumental archive Houplain amassed is the foundation of this ultimate logo reference guide, …
A Taste Of The Official Tribeca Film Festival
For the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) that kicked-off on April 17 and will run on through April 28, the creative force Juniper Jones has produced the official pre-show for the second straight year. Nearly 20 minutes in length, the 2013 Pre-Show features original content under the creative direction of TFF's executives, and it appears …
Genuse Watchface Collection
Tritime, Fortime, Timegrid, Timinus, Timechart, Timenine are part of a series of watchface clock applications specially invented for I'm Watch device by Albert Salamon, who's also the developer of Dominus Plus. The apps are original, simple and aesthetic in design ranging from future ethnic through sci-fi style to digital buisness with a sophisticated programming by …
El Guapo And Mr Bear Illustrated Coffee Cups Set
Jimbobart is London-based designer James Ward. From his studio and shop on Columbia Road in East London, he creates a range of ceramics and illustrations centring on his expressive animal drawings. As a commercial illustrator, he has been commissioned by Lacoste, Moleskine and Etsy - who invited him to illustrate a bath tub displayed alongside …
Keychain Made Of Recycled Bicycle Innertubes
TOOB (Long - for use as a regular pocket keychain; Short - intended for being looped onto the rider's belt, $8 on Etsy) is a keychain made of recycled bicycle innertubes that Roy Sherizly collect from Tel Aviv's local bicycle workshops. Instead of throwing worn or punctured innertubes away, each one is cleaned, washed, hand-cut …
Photography In The Age Of Web 2.0 And Smartphones
"How to photograph a subject or an event that does not occur in the real world, but only on the computer monitor?" German designer Kevin Bergt asked himself this particular question in his Master thesis at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences Dessau in Design: Zeitreise durch den digitalen Raum (Journey through the digital space). Photography …
Aesthetic Cruiser Skateboards By WoodiArt
WoodiArt is a Retro-Wood-Workshop based in Brittany, France. Benoit and his team makes cruiser skateboards entirely by hand from the finest woods like mahogany, ebony, pear black, iroco and many more. Each board is unique because these guys are convinced that the boards cannot be reduced to a single aspect of sport, but rather in passion, …
True Homeware For Sustainably-Minded People
The nostalgia of enamel pots and their sentimental memories of "old-fashioned" cooking has been reissued for today‘s lifestyles: Clean lines, simple materials and strong colours for organically and sustainably-minded people. Basically, enamel is nothing more than iron which is fused with silicate glass at 840°C. This process creates a perfect, non-porous and physiologically neutral surface. …
Rama Chair – The Return To The Woodworking Techniques
The Rama Chair ($TBA) is the latest product developed by Kristalia. Its evocative Spanish name Rama, meaning "branch", already reveals the main feature of the product, i.e. the predominant presence of wood. The chair features a multi-plywood structure supported by an almost invisible frame in pressure die-cast aluminium and solid wood legs. It has been …
