Korean designer Yangsoo Pyo has sent us photos of the Afro Chair he has designed. Description by Yangsoo Pyo: “Afro” is a chair that employed the image of the hair style “Afro Permanent hair.” Springs are used to visualize the tangled and puffed up texture of the afro hair. The springs used to create the “Afro chair” are the two-ring binder springs used to bind together a notebook. The two-ring ..
Flip Sellin of Berlin-based design group Coordination has designed a pendant lamp called Polygon Crash. Three shades comprising folded polygonal shapes are suspended from thin wire and each houses a “micro-tube light”. Measuring more than a metre across, the hand-made pendant light is made of mild steel and partially-mirrored, stainless steel. Sellin also designed the Crush sofa and NoVolume tab..
THEVERYMANY has been set up based on a continuum research on explicit and encoded protocols within design - the first implicit consequence of its core is to let traces; those traces - often under the format of simple text files - allow to exactly reproduce or alter the model, eventually share axioms... but it somehow also requires to admit and assume those traces, if so, one can learn from mista..
"Generator.x 2.0: beyond the screen..." an exhibition curated by Marius Watz at the DAM(Berlin) with works by Jared Tarbell (US), Commonwealth (US), Theverymany (FR/US), Leander Herzog (CH), Marius Watz (NO) and participants of the Generator.x 2.0 Workshop... THEVERYMANY (Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits) / Aperiodic_Vertebrae LOG_assembly_day_04: things are going smoother - one day to go before the ..
BIO(x)... "BIOmorphic" it first became (or eventually came back for the one who believes in trend periodicity...) "Architectural theory" directly responded early 2000 by the concept of "BIOmimetism" as the hot topic for architects surfing on the what's next weave after the "BIOmimicry" which emerged in parallel from the animation software at the end of the nineties... yes it does make sense to l..
Japanese design studio Leif.designpark have created the Hug Lounge Sofa for De La Espada. From De La Espada: Hug Lounge Sofa has a generous seating area and a playfully modern form reminiscent of a large embrace. In contrast to the familiarity of the welcoming seating area, the back of the sofa has the formality of a mens suit. from contemporist
Prajakta Bamanikar an Industrial Design student at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India, has designed a bamboo chair for use by restaurants in the popular tourist region of Goa. The project aims at designing a trendy dining chair in bamboo for Goan restaurants. With the continued rapid development of the global economy and constant increase in population, the overall demand for wo..
BMW Group DesignworksUSA have created the Metro40 collection of street furniture for Landscape Forms, a Kalamazoo, Michigan based manufacturer of site furniture for outdoor spaces. The Metro40 collection includes seating, shelters, lighting, and amenities, and has been developed for use by city planners and architects to help global urban centers elevate the livability, quality of experience, de..
London Design Festival 09: Berlin design studio Osko+Deichmann will present a range of seating inspired by a pebble at The Dock in London next week. Designed for Swedish brand Blå Station, the Pebble range are based on a stone found in the designers’ studio. The range includes an armchair, two- and three-seater sofas, and a footstool. Pebble will be shown at VORBOTEN: 7 Studios from Berlin, at T..
London Design Festival 09: an exhibition of six extruded aluminium furniture pieces by British designer Thomas Heatherwick has opened at Haunch of Venison in London. Heatherwick’s Extrusions series is produced using the world’s largest extrusion machine, with each piece consisting of a single piece of aluminium polished for 300 hours to achieve a mirror finish (the images here show the pieces be..
