Today's entry is a collection shared by photographer Peter Carr, from an event in Liverpool, England last year. Said Peter: "As part of Liverpool's Capital of Culture year, the French group La Machine were commissioned to create a large piece of street theatre, on the scale of their earlier work, the Sultan's Elephant. Many were expecting to see something using the iconic Liverbirds, the symbol ..
French designer Nicolas Vrignaud has designed the signage for a building comprising a fashion school, shopping centre, exhibition hall and restaurants on the banks of the Seine in Paris. Created for the development (called DOCKS en Seine) by architects Jakob+MacFarlane, the signs wrap around the existing concrete structure. Vrignaud designed the project in collaboration with architect Lorenzo As..
‘softshelf’ is a shelving system which aims to shed the conventional rigid form of book shelves. the design is completely customized by the user who chooses the over size of the unit, size and shape of the individual blocks and the curvature of unit. using CNC technology each shelf can be digitally customized and then built to the specifications. this malleable design system is what gives the sh..
Dutch Design Week: in Eindhoven last week Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Amelie Onzon presented equipment for producing foie gras that allows you to choose between a better-quality product or a better life for the duck. Called From Fable to Table, the objects include a feeding bowl where bread can be softened with water to make it edible for the duck, or force-fed to the bird dry (increasing ..
Richard Sweeney and Liam Hopkins of Manchester-based design studio Lazerian have designed a light shade made from modular, birch plywood components. The shade is constructed from 1.5mm CNC-cut pieces, joined with bolts and wing-nuts. The design uses 26 unique components, repeated throughout the structure. Photographs by Richard Sweeney. The following information is from Hopkins: – Modular Form: ..
Dutch Design Week: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bas van der Veer has won the prize for best project at the school’s Graduation Galleries exhibition, which opened in Eindhoven yesterday. Van der Veer presented two projects: a rainwater storage butt with an integrated watering can called A Drop of Water (top and below), and a biodegradable packaging system for plants called Bioplastic Planter..
The manufacturing of curved parts is laborious. Special molds are needed to define the curvature during the forming and joining process ? a factor that is time consuming and costly, especially in individual production and small series. Zipshape is a new universal method that makes it possible to fabricate single curved panels from any plain material without molds. An element consists of two indi..
Characterized by an organic and pleasing appearance, this room divider is about the phenomenon of light. Light is always moving, and due to reflection, refraction and shadow, leaves behind a fantastic impression. To make one feel the movement of light, I divided the wavy sides into many layers so that they reveive light from different angles and reflect it at different angles. As a result, the f..
Lenovo has let slip some official-looking (if not rendered) shots of a Vaio P-like netbook, the Pocket Yoga. Update: Sadly, it's just a concept. Granted, this is a decidedly male back pocket and not the ass-hugging skinny jeans of Vaio P ad fame. And it still looks like it's filling that zone halfway between concept and actual product (as the actual concept sketches that accompany the shots on L..
Belgian designer Alain Monnens has designed a leather armchair for Belgian company Durlet. The seating, called Bertus, has a metal framework that has been formed from a single piece, which acts as the support for the stitched upholstered leather seat and backrest. The upholstered elements are tilted back by the framework, making the armchair slightly reclining. Bertus comes in three colour varia..