Umami Food & Art Festival

8-18 avril | New York City

Bring anything that evokes a memory of place or time or experience that you wish to transform into sausage – a souvenir that can be chopped up into tiny pieces – an old CD or cassette tape, a cracked plate, a worn-out article of clothing, a broken chair, an old […]

“Untitled” light installation by Jim Campbell

Light installation by artist Jim Campbell “…a sublime example of form and function. Serving both as public art and also to reduce the visual impact of a security barrier around the federal building…”

“Untitled” light installation by Jim Campbell from Charles R. Carpenter on Vimeo.

Located at the Byron G. Rogers U.S. Courthouse, 1929 Stout Street, Denver, […]

Pivot, designed by Shay Alkalay for Arco

This solid wood cabinet is built on tall legs and features two drawers. The innovative aspect of this cabinet is the fact that the drawers can hinge, making it possible to open both at the same time, which is impossible with a conventional set of drawers.

In production by Arco
Designer : Shay Alkalay for is own […]

Frank Plant

Frank Plant is a Barcelona based American sculptor. Welded steel has always been the principal medium for Plant’s work, whether in his two dimensional pieces such as his fingerprints series or his earlier three dimensional kinetic metal sculptures, that incorporate found objects.

Hostages, Series of 6, Steel, Mixed Media
40cm x 15cm (each), 2007
More : hierroglyphic.blogspot.com

Lightline designed by Matthias Demacker

Matthias Demacker is 38 years old. After studying Design at FH Niederrhein in Krefeld he worked for several design offices in the field of exhibition design. In 2003 he started freelancing, to find the time to realize his own design concepts.

More : demacker-design.de

DEDON Collections 2008

As a maker of exclusive outdoor furniture, DEDON is one of the world’s leading providers in this sector and has up to now won numerous international design awards.
DEDON launch its new collections ZOFA, PHOENIX, and SPA and let us see an overview.
PHOENIX – Nicolas Thomkins from Switzerland combined functionality and ergonomics with supreme esthetic standards […]

Cadarache Cup by Trust in design

Personnal research of Etienne Vallet from Trust in design, Paris (Fr).

ceramic cup set and wood tray “Cadarache”. Saucer and container including in the same shape,like nuclear chimney. Because coffee is energy.

Is Philippe Starck going to stop his design activities?

Philippe Starck saids in the The German weekly ‘Die Zeit’ : “In two years, I stop, that’s sure. I will do something else, I still don’t know what. This will be a new form of expression. A new weapon, faster and more violent and lighter than design”

A first mark of doubt :

The eccentricity of a […]

ANTROPOMORFO CHAIRS by GAMplusFRATESI

“Antropomorfo Chairs” is a serie of chairs developed combining forms inspired from childrens drawings obviously out of proportions, with materials, colours and details typical from the scandnavian tradition.

More : gamplusfratesi.com

‘chair stool bench’ by Yvonne Fehling and Jennie Peiz

A series of seating for public spaces that approach users and viewers in an extraordinary way.
“For the recently opened Arp Musuem designed by the Pritzker-Prize-winning New York architect Richard Meier, Yvonne Fehling and Jennie Peiz created 12 playful, user-friendly and exquisitely crafted wooden benches. Wherever a visitor might want to stop and rest, look, think […]

Electrolux Design Lab 2008

Call for entries: Designs for the Internet generation
Electrolux Design Lab 2008 invites industrial design students around the world to create tomorrow’s home appliances for the Internet generation, deadline May 30.

Electrolux, a global leader in home appliances and appliances for professional use, launches the 6th edition of its annual design competition via ElectroluxDesignLab.com and will select […]

Din-ink

Din-ink is one of the competition results from the designboom’s contest “dining in 2015″.
Designed by : andrea cingoli + paolo emilio bellisario + cristian cellini + francesca fontana from italy.

More : ‘dining in 2015′ competition results

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