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Student Work – Ben Suarez
(18 hours ago)
Designed by Ben Suarez | Country: United States “I wanted to take a different approach to skateboard product packaging and make them a bit more mature and clean. I strayed away from the usual bright and flashy style that we are used to seeing and created it with more of an industrial and ever so [...]
Melo
(18 hours ago)
Designed by Imagemme | Country: United States “Here at Imagemme, our vision was to create an innovative package that immediately resonated with the refreshing taste of watermelon. With Melo, we wanted to mesh together the purity of the product alongside clean, eye-catching design. Being that sustainability and healthy packaging are priority, Melo’s bottle is BPA-free. The soft [...]
Designed in Hackney: laser dresses by Hussein Chalayan for Swarovski
(19 hours ago)
Designed in Hackney: we conclude our week of fashion design from Hackney with Hussein Chayalan and his dresses that emit laser beams. (more…)
Leigh Bagley
(19 hours ago)
Leigh Bagley creates some of most fun and vibrant geometric prints I’ve seen. The Edinburgh-based artist has a keen eye when it comes to color choices that she uses in her limited edition prints and greeting cards. The repetitive patterns and hues that she implements make my modern art-loving heart really happy. Each print is [...]
SIP Panel House by Alejandro Soffia & Gabriel Rudolphy
(20 hours ago)
In just 10 short days, the SIP Panel House was constructed in Santo Domingo, Chile. Designed by architects Alejandro Soffia and Gabriel Rudolphy and using structural insulated panels (SIP), the house was built with almost no waste. The project used two types of panels to make up the house, including 71 wall panels and 40 [...]
This week on Dezeen
(20 hours ago)
This week Dezeen has been all about skyscrapers, with towers by 15 of the world’s most famous architects for a new business district in Seoul plus a timelapse movie and interview with architect Renzo Piano as his 300 metre-high tower The Shard nears completion in London. (more…)
Friday Food For Thought: Happy Bauhday Walter Gropius
(20 hours ago)
Following our last week’s Friday Food For Thought post about the excellent ‘Bauhaus: Art as Life’ exhibition which recently opened at London’s Barbican, this week we revisit the famous art and design school once more but for a different reason. Thus, coincidentally, today marks the 129th anniversary of the birth of its founder, Walter Gropius (18 May [...]
And Finally… 18.5.12
(21 hours ago)
A local’s guide to Amsterdam, Apple fanboys’ ultimate fantasy, raves, architecture, art-cum-architecture gone wrong, and satanic 1890s nightclubs? Here’s what else we loved this week… The Awesomely Insane Heaven and Hell Nightclubs of 1890s Paris… Continue Reading »
GDG Studios
(21 hours ago)
GDG Studios is the New Jersey-based design studio run by Joseph Gower who creates handmade porcelain objects with a contemporary twist. The Crochet and Styroware pieces are so unique and completely fun to stare at. I love the textures and shapes that he creates along with the added touches of gold or silver and even [...]
Samsung Smart Camera Project
(22 hours ago)
We’re excited to have teamed up with Samsung to introduce you to their new WiFi enabled WB850F 16.2 MP Smart Camera, and to present a series of images that we’ve taken using the camera over… Continue Reading »
Interview: Renzo Piano on The Shard
(22 hours ago)
As The Shard nears completion in London, here is the transcript of an interview conducted with architect Renzo Piano before work started on the 300 metre-high tower. (more…)
CMYLK: Neon
(22 hours ago)
We’re hardly slaves to the trends, but when a look as fun as fluoro comes along, it’s hard to resist. Neon fashions bring to mind armfuls of brightly-colored jelly bracelets à la Madonna and her legions of Material Girls from the ’80s, but back then, when it came to decor, mauve was having a moment. [...]
Daydreaming with… Clarke & Reilly
(23 hours ago)
8 Chairs The Eagle Eye Cherrys amongst you will have spotted an interview we did with a certain Mr James Lavelle earlier this week, discussing the latest incarnation of his Daydreaming with… concept over in… Continue Reading »
After Image by Monocomplex
(23 hours ago)
Monocomplex’s new lamp, After Image, was inspired from the scene of mouse fire play (‘Jui-bool-no-ri’ in Korean language), which is one of Korea’s traditional customs. After Image expresses the fast “afterimage” of fire moving quickly, recreating the natural curve using wires and steel pipes, which were combined irregularly and connected along the natural flow of [...]
Dandelion Chocolate
(23 hours ago)
Dandelion Chocolate is a "bean to bar" chocolate factory that is currenly being built in San Francisco's Mission Disctrict. The move to start a chocolate factory came after many years of the owners experiementing with cocoa beans and a lifetime affinity for chocolate.
Photo tour of Salone Internazionale del Bagno, Parts 1 & 2 and EuroCucina
(2 days ago)
Following this year’s edition of Milan’s Salone del Mobile, we unveil three new photo galleries, this time with images from Salone Internazionale del Bagno (in two parts) and EuroCucina. Be inspired! to Photo tour of Salone Internazionale del Bagno 2012, Part 1 including: antoniolupi, Rapsel, antrax it, Mastella, Effegibi, Azzurra, Rexa Design, Cerasa, Sign, VitrA, lineabeta, Ridea, Duravit, AXOR, [...]
World Architecture Festival 2012: Media-ICT by Cloud 9
(2 days ago)
World Architecture Festival 2012: in the final movie from our series announcing the call for exhibitors at this year’s World Architecture Festival in Singapore from 3-5 October, programme director Paul Finch discusses why an experimental office building with an inflatable facade was named World Building of the Year in 2011. (more…)
Shell by Bradley L. Bowers
(2 days ago)
Bradley L. Bowers sent me his Shell lounge and the simple design and elegant minimalism about it made me want to grab a towel and slap on a bathing suit and head to the pool. Shell is designed to bring you balance – literally and figuratively, encouraging meditation through use forcing the user to relax [...]
Guinness QR Cup
(2 days ago)
We've seen our fair share of QR codes in every possible configuration, but this has got to be the coolest I've seen in a while.
Coffee Supreme
(2 days ago)
As a part of Coffee Supreme's rebrand, Hardhat Design created 16 unique take-out cups.
