Showing posts with label product design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label product design. Show all posts

Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Kanye West on Le Corbusier

"Architecture — you know, this one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration."

"I would go to museums and just like, the Louvre would have a furniture exhibit, and I visited it like, five times, even privately. And I would go see actual Corbusier homes in real life and just talk about, you know, why did they design it? They did like, the biggest glass panes that had ever been done. Like I say, I’m a minimalist in a rapper’s body." 


Kanye drops the name of French modernist Le Corbusier in reference to the songwriting and production on his new Yeezus. Read the full interview.





Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Friday, 1 February 2013

Monday, 9 January 2012

Hybrid Collection by CTRLZAK studio for Seletti

Unlike the earlier CermamiX range, the plates, bowls and cups in the new Hybrid collection are cast as single objects in bone china. via seletti

Monday, 6 June 2011

Idan Friedman - Aluminium Portraits





Israel-based product designer Idan Friedman embosses portraits on aluminum throw-away trays
Via SweetStation

Tuesday, 5 April 2011

Ron Hickman - Designer - d2011. Creator of the Workmate and Lotus Elan



The prolific designer and inventor Ron Hickman, who has died aged 78 after a long illness, made his fortune from an idea for a simple but multifunctional bench with a gap down the middle to grip wood. The Workmate enabled DIY enthusiasts to saw through pieces of timber without using the edges of chairs and tables for support. The idea had come to him in 1961 when he accidentally sawed through the leg of an expensive Swedish chair while making a wardrobe. Nearly 70m Workmates have been sold since Black & Decker put Hickman's design into mass production in 1973.
via Guardian

Saturday, 13 November 2010

Newspaper Wood


Kranthout ("newspaper wood" in Dutch) is a new product that has been developed by Mieke Meijer for design company vij5 (here is a [PDF] of their design). As the name suggests, this is 'wood' made from newspaper. The individual pages are rolled together using a specially developed machine to produce tabloid sized 'logs', which can then be milled into planks, drilled and sanded just as real wood might. Neatly, the kranthout also replicates the grain of wood, with streaks of text or color photographs revealed in the new planks when it is cut.
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