PENTAWARDS 2008

from 1st May 2008 to 13 June 2008.
Pentawards, Pentawards is the first and only worldwide competition exclusively devoted to packaging design in all its forms. It is open to everybody in all countries who are associated with the creation and marketing of packaging. The winners will receive bronze, silver, gold, platinum or diamond Pentawards according […]

P.O.C. People Oriented Car

P.O.C. is an airbag dedicated to pedestrian. This prototype has been designed by the Radi designers group and has been shown at IMM Cologne in 2001 during the “drive in” exhibition.

SOS, designed by Josh Owen

“I have always been interested in small stools. Commonly considered less desirable than chairs as an object of study for designers, they are a seating category often overlooked in general.

Now synonymous with a distress signal, S.O.S. began as a naval term: the original meaning was “Save Our Ship”. Like a life-raft, the SOS Stool is […]

Desk DOTS designed by Terrence Kelleman

This versatile desk accessory can be used as an organizer, picture holder, desk sculpture, business card holder and stress reliever. Desk Dots are super powerful ceramic magnets that can hold together even with lots of material between them.

Switch from function to fun and back again by rearranging the dots instantly on your desk. Use them […]

Cube Style

Cube Style designed by Dinos is an ideal way to optimize your interior space.

via CubeMe

The Desktop Factory 3D printer

The Desktop Factory 3D printer builds durable, functional models from the bottom up, one layer at a time… is designed to meet the needs of small design/engineering firms, departments within large companies, and schools.

“…Our goal is to one day make 3D printing as common in offices, factories, schools and homes as laser printers are today… […]

We are typical

This limited collection is made of 12 traditional vases in baroque style and it has been inspired by the rich and long-established Italian cultural and artistic institution.

We are typical, a brand new collection of ceramic objects designed by the young researchers of Fabrica, the Benetton communication research centre.

Glacier table, by Philippe Malouin

The glacier table adapts some mathematical laws according to vectors created after extruding topological maps from the Canadian Rockies. The result is extremely light and rigid.

The glacier table was created by Philippe Malouin for Wieki Somer’s design brief at the Design Academy in Eindhoven

The Future Of Books by Kyle Bean

Kyle Bean is an illustrator, a designer and a “maker of things”. He’s currently studying illustration at the University of Brighton.

madsounds / otto by Duncan Wilson

Otto is a device that makes hidden sounds audible designed by Duncan Wilson in collaboration with Manolis Kelaidis of IDE at the Royal College of Art.

Walking Bike

Max Knight built this walking bike for the Arkitip team. Check out the video.

Photography by Thomas Brown

GARBO, stool by PROUDLY

PROUDLY strives to create products that can be used for conceptual solutions and context. The concept of GARBO is based on the relationship between the inside vs. the outside.

“The shape enables you to use Garbo as a stool, but also as a sideboard which gives customers the advantage of choosing how to interact with this […]

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