Designer’s Statement : The Buoy Lamps are part of an ongoing investigation to the aesthetics of industrial technology. The most specific, highly engineered objects take functionality to an extreme which is no longer recognizable to the layperson. The odd shapes and brilliant colours of navigational buoys could just as well be from children’s’ toys, Christmas ornaments or giant jewellery.
Wall house is a project by FAR frohn & rojas, a networked architectural design and research practice. This project is a design investigation into how the qualitative aspects of the wall structure our social interactions and climatic relationships. It breaks down the ‘traditional’ walls of a house into a series of four delaminated layers in between which the different spaces of the house slip and from the inside out the layers build upon one another, both materially and geomatrically, blurring the boundery between the interior and exterior.
The Indoor Table - It’s a table, it’s a desk, it’s a street door.
Manoteca is a little house in a park, a lab where old and abandoned things are hosted among with recycled materials, reinvented and reassembled.
They all are one-offs, handmade and treated with natural paints.
Set up by Tom Housden in 2011, Hand & Eye design studio was borne out of the desire to reacquaint designer and maker. A practising architect, Tom came to feel that the profession’s approach to design was too hands-off and very remote from the process of manufacturing.
The pendants are all hand made to order by UK craftsmen making each truly unique. The process of slip casting liquid terracotta into moulds and hand glazing the fired shades is a skilled process that takes tim.
A family of cups where every cup will find it’s own soulmate in a family.
Each cup has it’s own way to be treated. Every time, while holding a different cup, the holder has to adjust his hand and mind to the piece he is holding. In time various shapes and handles let you personalize your cups.
The cups are made from one mould, then every handle is cut into different a shape.
The new collection from Axo Light is a series of upturned goblets, overlapping transparencies and contrasting colours.
SNIJLAB, a Dutch design studio based in Rotterdam, has introduced a series of booklets fabricated entirely from wood. Cut from a single sheet of birch plywood, a clever array of laser-cut perforations allows for the cover to hinge with complete flexibility, while another wooden piece clamps an A7 format notebook inside. A series of slits on the back cover allows for a band to be slipped in and around the cover, keeping the notebook shut.
Born 1984 in Kassel Tim Mackerodt worked in South Africa for 12 months before finishing a BA in International Business Studies in 2008. He has currently been studying Product Design at the School of Art and Design in Kassel since 2009.
John Cho Moore grew tired of the limitations of the industrial design process and is now trying to capture the essence of design with his beautifully handmade bamboo and canvas bags.
Follow John through his unique manufacturing process that challenges convention thinking about product design and the creative process.
via Turnstyle Video
Raised in Maryland, Nicholas Alan Cope moved to Los Angeles in 2004
and attended Art Center College of Design.
Since graduating Nicholas has worked for a number of commercial and editorial clients while also working on personal projects.
Always been in awe of this stunning house by Jason Maclean featuring my favourite Kandya Jason chairs.
Photographs by Edmund Sumner
Consider the origins of furniture – philosophical and sociological aspects – the way a piece of furniture functions in a room, how it is conceived by its users, and how form, materials and any other aspect of a piece of furniture affect our senses.
Oak. is the result of an extracurricular, collaborative activity between 18 students from the BA and MA programs at Lund University School of Industrial Design. The project began with a workshop led by Jonas Lindvall of Lindvall A&D, exploring archetypes and stereotypes in the world of furniture. What is the difference and what qualities or virtues make a piece of furniture one versus the other? The project was presented at Designersblock Milano 2011
(Source: industrialdesign.lth.se)
White + Wood + Grey makes me smile.
These pages are snippets of things I find inspiring, interesting or simply aesthetically pleasing.
To see my work inspired by these pages please visit www.linea-studio.co.uk
Thanks for taking a peek today.
Kathryn Tyler.
