The Cul is Cool Tour made its way to Valencia this year. First premiered in NYC last year, the Cul is Cool seat and photographic exhibition at Hat Gallery, curated by Ramon Ubeda and Pepa Reverter exposes the sensuality, provocativeness and sculptural qualities of the buttock shaped seat designed by Ramon Ubeda and Otto Canalda for ABR. The collection of seats was fully exhibited during Valencia..
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has created a transparent mobile phone. Called X-RAY, the design was created for telecommunications company KDDI and will be on show KDDI Designing Studio in Tokyo from 19 October. See all our stories about Tokujin Yoshioka » Here’s a little text from the designer: X-RAY for KDDI iida by Tokujin Yoshioka Apart from arranging visual appearance, I have pondered a..
No matter how stylish, bicycle helmets have the nasty habit of mussing up hair while making you look like a dork. That often keeps cyclists from wearing helmets altogether--a habit that prompted Swedish designers Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin to design Hövding ("Chieftain"), a bike helmet that doesn't look much like a helmet at all. Chieftain, which has been in development for the past six years,..
This sofa by Copenhagen designers KiBiSi consists of stacked pillows with fiber concrete buttons. Called Brick, the design will be launched this month with new Danish upholstery company Versus. Here are some more details from KiBiSi: KiBiSi launches Brick – a couch series for the new Danish design brand, VERSUS KiBiSi has designed the Brick series for Versus. The series consists of a pouf, a cha..
The inspiration for the ‘Twisted Lights’ comes from the material used, namely bend plywood. This type of plywood is perfect to bend, when it’s properly processed, so the forming capabilities are endless. The flexibility of the material invites to make organic forms. The lamp is built from an initial shape, which is the top of the lamp. Against this top bend plywood is wrapped, so that during the..
German designer Constantin Wortmann has created the NLC Lamp for the manufacturer NEXT. At a first glance, NLC perplexes with its positively striking and yet strangely puzzling appearance. Its special appeal lies in the seeming conflict between the chaotic and the organic. NLC draws its inspiration as much from the head of Medusa as from the finely trellised branches of a treetop. One of the rea..
British car brand Aston Martin are to launch a luxury compact city car, called Cygnet, next year. The vehicle will be three metres long and offer personalised materials, colours and finishes to make each one unique. “Luxury is not constrained by scale,” claims Aston Martin’s director of design Marek Reichman. Aston Martin Cygnet to become a production reality in 2011 Designed and built at Aston ..
Marcus Tremonto is a usual Yatzer suspect and after his magnificent work for Kidrobot and his customized, brighter than ever Munnies (see our Lightbotz special) strikes back with his latest creations for Moss gallery New York.This time Marcus presents for the “Make me” exhibition four limitededition lighting sculptures (Flor, Pipe Spill, Spill II and Steam),inspired by his original Spill series,..
Spanish lighting company Lzf recently exhibited the Armadillo lamp during Valencia Design Week. The Armadillo pendant lamp is made from dozens of wood veneer squares. from contemporist
It is clear that technology is constantly evolving and rapidly replacing its latest, previous creations. We all experience it, the purchasing of a product and the moment it leaves the store it is already outdated; this perpetual changing condition is the way these companies want us to feel about the objects. This momentary impulse tells us that we are relevant, current and smart by recognizing a..