An innovative wash basin KANERA series by Graft, a design firm located in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Beijing. The design was inspired by the movement of water in relation with the wash basin. + Bathing Inspiration A sink like KANERA 1 E, having just won the renowned red dot award: product design 2008, awarded by The Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen on March, 14th is the pinnacle of industrial de..
The e-volved table, which was designed by Timothy Schreiber in 2007, has been put into production by Dutch manufacturer FueraDentro as part of their 2010 collection. The design was inspired by natural fluid patterns and naturally grown shapes. This approach was translated into an initial digital model, which was subsequently optimized using digital structural and artificial intelligence algorith..
The Vienna based bkm Design Working Group have created a collection of furniture pieces to show-off new veneer materials from RoHol, an Austrian manufacturer of wood products. The pieces are currently on display at the Artmark Galerie as part of Vienna Design Week. from contemporist
Anders Johnsson and Petter Thörne are a couple of young designers based in Stockholm, who are graduating from Sweden’s Konstfack University this spring. The two designers have created the Mold chairs as part of their final project for the Interior Architecture and Furniture Design program. While visiting various Swedish furniture manufacturers, they noticed the large quantities of waste material..
Merete Rasmussen is a Danish artist who predominately works with one-off sculptural forms in stoneware clay. She has lived and worked in London since 2005. Merete is interested in the idea of one continuous surface, with one connected edge or line running through the whole form. Clear, clean shapes; soft smooth curves in contrast to sharp edges; concave and convex surfaces; the discovery and str..
Korean designer Yangsoo Pyo has sent us photos of the Afro Chair he has designed. Description by Yangsoo Pyo: “Afro” is a chair that employed the image of the hair style “Afro Permanent hair.” Springs are used to visualize the tangled and puffed up texture of the afro hair. The springs used to create the “Afro chair” are the two-ring binder springs used to bind together a notebook. The two-ring ..
Flip Sellin of Berlin-based design group Coordination has designed a pendant lamp called Polygon Crash. Three shades comprising folded polygonal shapes are suspended from thin wire and each houses a “micro-tube light”. Measuring more than a metre across, the hand-made pendant light is made of mild steel and partially-mirrored, stainless steel. Sellin also designed the Crush sofa and NoVolume tab..
THEVERYMANY has been set up based on a continuum research on explicit and encoded protocols within design - the first implicit consequence of its core is to let traces; those traces - often under the format of simple text files - allow to exactly reproduce or alter the model, eventually share axioms... but it somehow also requires to admit and assume those traces, if so, one can learn from mista..
"Generator.x 2.0: beyond the screen..." an exhibition curated by Marius Watz at the DAM(Berlin) with works by Jared Tarbell (US), Commonwealth (US), Theverymany (FR/US), Leander Herzog (CH), Marius Watz (NO) and participants of the Generator.x 2.0 Workshop... THEVERYMANY (Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits) / Aperiodic_Vertebrae LOG_assembly_day_04: things are going smoother - one day to go before the ..
BIO(x)... "BIOmorphic" it first became (or eventually came back for the one who believes in trend periodicity...) "Architectural theory" directly responded early 2000 by the concept of "BIOmimetism" as the hot topic for architects surfing on the what's next weave after the "BIOmimicry" which emerged in parallel from the animation software at the end of the nineties... yes it does make sense to l..