Slovak designer Zuzana Serbak is a brand new blood in the fashion industry. Her curriculum vitae reads Shoe Designer freshly graduated from the Prague Academy of Arts in Architecture and Design. Serbak’s diploma designs are edgy, futuristic, stylish and bold. They are examples of thinking outside the box and looking forward to a collection with no barriers and no restrictions. We always love loo..
Vienna Design Week 2010: Austrian designer Rainer Mutsch has created a range of outdoor seating moulded from sheets of fiber cement. The recyclable composite is more normally used in the construction industry, and is made from natural materials including cellulose fibres. Called Dune, the seats comprise loops of the material and can be used as individual pieces or a modular system. Mutsch develo..
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,..
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
