Design organisation Danish Crafts presented the work of 12 Danish designers including Kim Buck (above), Ole Jensen, (below) and Christin Johansson at 100% Design London last month. Called Mindcraft and presented at 100% Futures, the exhibition showcased Denmark’s “leading and most talented designers and craftspeople”. Below: Day_1 & Day_2,bed linen by Dorthe Agergaard Jensen Below: Everyday Scen..
Cork: New appliances of a manifold natural material We've all experienced it at one time or another: we've been invited to dinner in a nice atmosphere and are looking forward to a promising wine. However, we wait in vain for the hoped-for 'plop' of the cork – instead the bottle is opened by the host with an unaesthetic twist of the screw top (which of course doesn't necessarily mean that the win..
Berlin-based Mashallah Design & Linda Kostowski have created items of clothing by scanning human bodies and using the data to create sewing patterns. Above: Wolf The human form is turned into 3D patterns of polygons, which are then turned into 2D files and used to laser cut fabric. Above: Wolf. Above: Juki Above: Juki Above: Swimmies The following information is from Mashallah Design: – THE T-SH..
Milan 08: Cube 6 by designer Naho Matsuno turns from a cube into six stools and back again. Matsuno showed the project in the Salone Satellite at the Milan furniture fair. The stools are made from birch plywood and maple and the cube is 350 x 350 x 350mm when slotted together. A version with three stools is also available (see below).
Following our story last week about Olafur Eliasson’s latest addition to the BMW Art Cars series, here are some photographs of the other 15 cars in the series, which invites leading artists to work with the marque’s vehicles. Above: Alexander Calder (1975). The collection began in 1975 when French racing driver Hervé Poulain commissioned his friend Calder to paint his BMW 3.0 CSL (above). Below:..
The GINA Light Visionary Model by BMW is a concept featuring a flexible fabric skin stretched over an articulated metal frame, meaning the car can change shape. Developed by BMW Group Design and unveiled yesterday, the concept is meant to provoke discussion about the possibilities of car design in the future. Doors open upwards and outwards, creating folds in the material that disappear when the..
Architects Foster + Partners have designed the 40 Signature Series yacht for YachtPlus. The 41-metre yacht is under construction at Rodriquez Cantieri Navali boat yard in Italy and will be available from September. The following information is from YachtPlus: – Exclusive to YachtPlus, the Foster designed 40 “Signature Series” is a new concept private luxury super-yacht for a new generation of ya..
The Toyota iQ, a compact city car that is thought to be the smallest four-seater on the market, is about to go into production. The production version, unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year, has seating for three adults and a child and is 2.985 metres long and 1.5 metres high. Toyota expect to produce 100,000 iQs a year when it goes into production in October. The following is from..
Industrial designer Michael Young has designed Cityspeed, an urban bike for Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer Giant. The bike features LED headlights and tail lights integrated into the frame. This is the second collaborative project between Young and Giant after the Citystorm range, which was released in Japan last year. Giant, the largest manufacturer of bicycles in the world, will officially lau..
Mark Sanders, designer of the Strida Bike, has given Dezeen access to his archive of drawings, models and photographs (including his very first sketch of the bike, above). Here he tells us how the project came about: Dezeen: Why did you first decide to design a folding bike? MS: I am a designer and an engineer and I love to work on mechanical stuff that also has a big aesthetic side. I love the ..
