Digital Dali

Posted on May 4, 2008
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Ross McBride earned his bachelor’s degree in graphic design from the California Institute of the Arts. He has exhibited at 100% Design London, Salone Satellite in Milan, ICFF New York, and Tokyo Designers Block, where he won the TDB Award 2003 for best installation design.

Digital Dali rests on the edge of any horizontal surface. The power cord can either run out of the back, or from the bottom to be concealed by the tabletop.

Nora House

Posted on May 2, 2008
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Nora House (Danderyd, Sweden), is a private house designed by Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter. The building envelope was defined by the full width, the maximum area and height fitting into the building regulations.

Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter was founded in 1999 by architects Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård Hansson.

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Quentin Shih

Posted on May 1, 2008
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Quentin Shih is a photographer based in Beijing, China. He works for many prestigious clients as Samsung, Mc Donalds, Siemens, Nokia, LG…

Its work needs no words, just a look at the photographer portfolio, A MUST SEE!

Via [chinadesign’s blog] (Fr)

PENTAWARDS 2008

Posted on April 30, 2008
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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 to the creative quality of their work.

Pentawards, only worldwide competition devoted to packaging design

All works presented must have been created or produced (launched) between 1 January and 31 December 2007, in any country whatever.

P.O.C. People Oriented Car

Posted on April 30, 2008
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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

Posted on April 29, 2008
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“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 a floating island of utility that extends beyond the parameters of what we consider a temporary seat.”

Josh Owen

Desk DOTS designed by Terrence Kelleman

Posted on April 28, 2008
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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 on your refrigerator, filing cabinet, to organize your business cards or as a magnetic push pin.

Cube Style

Posted on April 28, 2008
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Cube Style designed by Dinos is an ideal way to optimize your interior space.

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The Desktop Factory 3D printer

Posted on April 27, 2008
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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… Within three years, Desktop Factory’s 3D printers will be affordable even for home use. Imagine your child being able to select a toy from a catalog or even design his or her own and create it right at home…”

We are typical

Posted on April 26, 2008
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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

Posted on April 25, 2008
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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.