Starting with a digital body scan, the dress is digitally drawn. This animation serves to compare the drawing process with the final product and the variability in reality. from vimeo
Anne Kyyrö Quinn is a London-based designer and producer of three-dimensional wall coverings made from felt. The studio works with architects and interior designers to create custom pieces for a variety of interior settings. The panels are designed, cut, sewn and finished by hand at their London based studio. from contemporist
German designer Elisa Strozyk has created the Miss Maple pendant lamp. The pendant lamp “Miss Maple” is showing the use of a familiar material in an unconventional way. We usually experience wood as a plain surface, but here it is broken down into a grid of triangles. This makes a flexible lampshade which can be transformed manually in three-dimensional ways. While the lamp generates warm light ..
London designer Ross Lovegrove has launched this LED pendant lamp for Japanese lighting brand Yamagiwa. Called Andromeda , the lamp has clusters of LEDs embedded at the cross-points of the hard polyurethane foam form. Mirrors can be repositioned within the structure to reflect the light in different directions. Here’s some more information from Yamagiwa: ANDROMEDA ANDROMEDA is an artificial stru..
Israeli lighting and furniture designers Aqua Creations have opened a new flagship store in Tel Aviv. from contemporist
Dezeen movie: in this third film about Italian design for the Design Museum in association with Peroni Nastro Azzurro, author Dr Andrew Nahum and Royal College of Art professor Dale Harrow discuss the making of the Italian car. Called Made in Italy, the series of five talks on Italian design were chaired by Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic and took place in London, Brighton and Glasgow. Look ..
Industrial designer Alvaro Uribe has created the Celebration Lamp. Celebration Lamp is a project aimed to transmit to the world the most profound spirit of Latin American culture; the celebration of life through dancing. Dance, is the one human activity where conjunctively we get together to rejoice about our existence. Through dance, our senses are activated, our bodies stretch, our eyes and ea..
How would seating be without a chair? Quite ironic, but Vitra presented “chairless” during Milan Design Week 2010. I guess chairless is the perfect device for fidgety people who just cant settle themselves even when cross-legged! Despite the fact that chairless was designed by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena the seating strap is commonly used by the Ayoreo Indians, a nomadic tribe living in ..
As designers we travel around the world to new places in order to get inspired and discover the newest up and becoming artists, objects, designer furniture and all that has to do with design. In one such exclusive exhibition in London we discovered the great artworks of Petr Weigl and mission was accomplished. Son of a Czech émigré born in England, Petr Weigl is a talented artist/sculptor/graphi..
