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, …
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 …
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. …
The HPSTR Pyramid – An Alternative Interface
The HPSTR Pyramid is an attempt to create an alternative interface to conventional knobs and slide controls. It's an approach to have the same basic and generic functionality a knob has but to achieve it with a more natural interaction. "I wanted to create an instrument that is generic enough to be used in different …
Mutewatch With Hidden Touchscreen
To access Mutewatch's ($259) hidden touchscreen just tap the flat surface or flick your wrist to activate the glowing display. The LED displays at 100 Hz rate and to access the functions–clock, alarm and timer–swipe horizontally or set your timers and alarms by swiping or tapping the top or bottom of each digit. When your …
Handmade Leather Under-Arm Folios
With a love for vintage bags, Raimonda Navickaite founded British company Holdall & Co to create a stylish and durable product, able to withstand the tests of time and to age gracefully. Navickaite, a skilled case maker, introduces a new generation to the values and qualities that are embodied by the simple words "Made in England." …
Convertible Sofa – Idea(l) For Limited Space
The Convertible Sofa by Julia Kononenko transforms from one small sofa into a dining-table for 6 persons. In our apartments we are always in the confrontation with furniture for the living space. It is so important, that the Interior items possess little space, are multi-functional and small in size. "I created a sofa for the …
‘Fossilized’ Typeface By Andreas Scheiger
"The discovery of fossilized letters brings new light into evolution of man." This might be the latest design news headline. Austrian designer Andreas Scheiger has created an intriguing ‘fossilized’ typeface that looks like they have just been excavated. "I remember that in primary school we tinkered 'our own fossil' with gypsum, leaves and twigs. With …
Copic Markers 12-Piece Sketch Basic Set
Packaged in a clear plastic case, Copic Markers 12-Piece Sketch Basic Set ($65) is the ideal way to begin or add to a marker collection and develop your illustration basics. Because of their ultra-blendable, low odor and alcohol based inks a lot of designers prefer Copic. Unlike water-based inks, which tend to pill and oversoak …
Fundamental Backgrounds Set Thailand
Do it like the people of Thailand do, whether for a client or your own graphic design, every background in this second set by 100 FOR 10 comes with a smile :-) Thailand's culture has been shaped by many influences, including Indian, Lao, Burmese, Cambodian, and Chinese. The Thai cuisine for example blends five fundamental …
Interview: Alex Ostrowski, Co-Director Of YCN Studio
Alex Ostrowski co-directs London based YCN Studio, a multidisciplinary creative team working on diverse design and communication projects for clients large and small. Born out of YCN, the model of the studio places them at the centre of an ever-growing network of creative talent. To date, the output has encompassed advertising, identity design, brand strategy, …
