With winter just around the corner, it's time to pack away your air conditioner and bust out the humidifier. Luckily, the Japanese seem to have a small obsession with moisture and have produced several devices we wouldn't mind keeping out all year. The latest to join this lineup is the Middle Colors humidifier, which is not only attractive and available in a range of colors but will help save yo..
EXIT is a custom exit light produced for The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas. Interloop Architecture designed and fabricated the exit lights, working with engineers, fabricators, UL technicians, and the graphic design firm 2x4. In keeping with city, state, and federal safety standards, every emergency light fixture must undergo extensive testing by the Underwriter Laboratories Testing C..
This project is a result of our participation in Sixteen Houses - a project organized and curated by Michael Bell in 1998 and funded by the Graham Foundation, the Fifth Ward Redevelopment Corporation, and DiverseWorks in Houston. Sixteen architects and designers were invited nationally to generate innovative concepts and new options for a low-income house - to expand the very limited market. To ..
Hedge Gallery in San Francisco presents Not Furniture, an exhibition of work by American sculptor/designer Forrest Myers. “I’m a sculptor, and I use use furniture as a venue, as an idea, a jumping off place to make sculpture.” says Myers. Top image: Parker. Above: 125 Mph The exhibition, which runs until November 8, is presented in collaboration with New York gallery Friedman Benda. Above: Love ..
Designer Yves Béhar of Fuseproject has unveiled Le Cube, a TV receiver, remote control and graphic interface for French broadcaster CANAL +. Designed , Le Cube’s design and user interface is designed to make consuming its services easier and more enjoyable. See a movie about Le Cube here. The following is from Yves Béhar: – DESIGN STATEMENT This game-changing TV experience project is a rare feat..
A table covered with charcoal by Dutch designer Anke Weiss is on show at Eat Drink Design as part of Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Weiss covered the MDF table top with fixative-treated charcoal sticks by hand. An area of the table’s surface is leveled while the rest is raised and bumpy. “That is the place for a person to sit down and enjoy the view on this hypnotic structure,”..
Dutch Design Week: designer Anke Weiss has created a series of lights from used food and drink packaging. Weiss traces the patterns and text on the packaging with hundreds of pin-pricks, which allow the light to shine through. The lights were exhibited at Eat Drink Design in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week last month. Update 20/11/07: Weiss has just sent us some further information about the ..
Here are new photos of the shoes Zaha Hadid Architects designed for Brazilian brand Melissa. The moulded plastic shoes were launched last month. Photos are by David Grandorge and used with permission. More Dezeen stories about designer shoes: Campana Brothers for Melissa Jaime Hayon for Camper Apprentice shoes by Doshi Levien eBoy trainers for DKNY Electric Light Shoe by Freedom of Creation for ..
Australian designer Brodie Neill presented two new furniture pieces at Covent Garden Super Design in London last week. Remix chaise longue (above) is carved from laminated plastic,plywood, chipboard and fibreboard - some of which are reclaimed - usingCNC machinery. The Pop table (above) was designed digitally, manufactured using CNC technology and coated in carbon fibre. Both pieces were present..
