May 27, 2012 Leave a comment
A handbag?
Product design duo Maigrau’s tables were on display, all made exclusively in Germany - they’re just behind those large HANDBAGS which really grabbed us!
Corking
Meanwhile our good friends Deadgood were showing their Cork Coffee Table – the PR team like objects that are made of cork and are rounded in shape…
April 13, 2012 Leave a comment
We recently came across this blog by Tiger who apparently also blogs for Swedish Elle Decor.
‘From Scandinavia with Love‘ features a wide range of great designs from Northern Europe including furniture, lighting, textiles, tableware and accessories from designers large and small.
This is well worth a visit for some great design – click here
March 25, 2012 1 Comment
We think that these designs by Gore Design Co. are great – very inventive and far from the norm.
Gore Design, based in Tempe, Arizona, creates a wide range of items in concrete from sinks to fireplaces and furniture.
They say about themselves, ‘A vanguard artisan studio specializing in custom concrete surfaces and interiors. Countertops, sinks, furniture, architectural elements – all handcrafted using pioneering eco-friendly techniques. Artistic innovations for a livable planet. Leading the concrete [r]evolution, at the forefront of environmentally responsible design.’
Their designs are very interesting, as is their website. Take a look at more of their designs here.
January 13, 2012 1 Comment
The Design Museum has announced its nominations for the Designs of the Year 2012 exhibition with a range of exciting designs that appeared in 2011. The work featured includes digital, fashion, furniture, architecture, product, graphic and transport design and is drawn from a wide variety of projects.
All the nominations will be on show at the Designs of the Year exhibtion at the Design Museum, opening to the public on 8 February 2012 and category winners and the overall winner will be announced at the Awards Night at the Design Museum on 24 April.
The Design Museum will be issuing details of each nomination daily on their blog,
February 28, 2011 Leave a comment
The votes are in and a winner for each category of the Brit Insurance Design Awards 2011 has been officially announced today.
The winners for each category are:
Brit Insurance Architecture Award 2011: Open Air Library by KARO Architekten, Germany
Brit Insurance Fashion Award 2011: Uniqlo +J, Japan
Brit Insurance Furniture Award 2011: Branca, Industrial Facility, Italy
Brit Insurance Graphics Award 2011: Homemade is Best, Forsman & Bodenfors for Ikea
Brit Insurance Product Award 2011: Plumen 001, Hulger & Samuel Wilkinson, UK
Brit Insurance Transport Award 2011: Barclays Cycle Hire
Click here to learn more about each of these winners and for your chance to speculate who will eventually reign supreme.
September 20, 2010 Leave a comment
Spanish designer Jaime Hayon has launched a new furniture collection for the design brand Sé.
The brand comments, ‘Solid bronze side tables with fantastic curves. Bold colours applied to confident shapes. A sofa and armchair delicately proportioned but with a wit and presence that sets them apart from any other chair. The upholstery is refined, the styling almost classic but with a look of something very new, very now.’
This great Sé Collection by Jaime Hayon launches at the London Design Week and the series of chairs, mirrors, tables and sofas is Hayon’s first complete furniture range.
September 20, 2010 Leave a comment
The Blueprint Awards are back at 100% Design with a format that guarantees the best work receives a prestigious Blueprint Badge. Opening up the conventional awards structure, there is no limit on the number of possible badge winners for the Best New Products, New Talent in 100% Futures, and the Best Use of Materials. The Blueprint Badge winners were selected by Peter Kelly, editor of Blueprint, and design author and curator Max Fraser in late July.
See more on Blueprint
September 12, 2010 Leave a comment
The Industry Gallery, Washinton DC, is holding a new exhibition called Nature/Data by New York-based Italian designer and architect Antonio Pio Saracino. The exhibition features eleven chairs that are constructed in a range of materials including plywood, metal, carbon fiber and synthetics and in various forms such as molecules, leaves, blossoms, and crystals. Great furniture designs that inspire.
See the collection here
September 9, 2010 Leave a comment
Know your chairs? Try this new iPhone app and see if your knowledge is up to scratch. Design Icon: Chairs showing silhouettes of design icons and asks for their name, designer or date. It was developed by Mark Stevens from Fail Forwards in Copenhagen and costs 59p from the App Store See more here. There is also one for fonts coming soon.
August 31, 2010 Leave a comment
The second Clerkenwell Showroom Golf Open, organised by The Think Tank, was a success despite the rain last week. Enjoyed by all, several teams completed the course around the furniture showrooms of Clerkenwell and finished the course at the 10th hole in Desso’s showroom on Great Sutton Street.
With more than 60 architects, designers and dealers signing up to take part it was going to be a busy afternoon, however the heavens opened and numbers were reduced. But not putting a dampner on things, those that took part had a great time.
The Think Tank congratulates all the winners and looks forward to next years classic.
August 18, 2010 Leave a comment
There is only one week until London’s premier urban golf tournament tees off. The Clerkenwell Showroom Open will be held on 26th August.
Last year’s inaugural event was a great success and again this year many showrooms across the area have signed up to accommodate a hole of golf.
The Clerkenwell Open is a concept developed by The Think Tank to give architects and designers the opportunity to explore the showrooms of Clerkenwell whilst having a bit of fun and raising money for charity. Nine showrooms house an indoor hole of golf and the golfers travel around the showrooms to complete the course.
The tournament is open to individuals and teams and consists of nine holes within walking distance of each other, and finishes at an awards ceremony (party) in the evening.
Many architects and designers have already signed up for this year’s Clerkenwell Showroom Open. If you are interested in entering a team or individually email Dragana at showroomopen@thinktank.org.uk.
July 21, 2010 Leave a comment
Italian furniture manufacturer Poliform has opened a new showroom in Bahrain. The building in Palm Square is a white cube cut out with wide windows that provide a line of sight to the furniture displays inside.
See more on Contemporist
July 20, 2010 1 Comment
Harry Allen’s has designed a great solution to public space seating in ‘Pipeline’ for Dune, a modular seating system that consistsof four upholstered sections that can create a multitude of shapes and designs.
See more here
July 14, 2010 Leave a comment
New Designers is an annual London showcase for recent design graduates dedicated to product, graphic and interior design. The New Designer of the Year award has been presented to Tortie Hoare for her boiled leather furnishings which appropriated techniques from medieval France and has applied them to 21st century designs.
See her designs and more on Icon Eye
July 11, 2010 Leave a comment
Italian designer Giancarlo Zema has created a fantastic collection of stools and coffee tables combining wood and light to great effect. The Bright Woods collection for the Avanzini Group is a limited edition of 120 stools and 60 coffee tables.
Read more on Contemporist
July 7, 2010 Leave a comment
A coffee table that is hungry for your rubbish – Turn your junk mail into recyclable mail. The Papervore is wants all of your printed leftovers. With a turn of the crank you too can put that gas bill off until next month.
See more on Pigeon Tail Design
The Papervore from Pigeontail Design on Vimeo.
July 6, 2010 Leave a comment
Golf is coming to Clerkenwell again this summer, with the Clerkenwell Showroom Open set to tee off on 26th August.
Last year’s inaugural event was a great success and again this year many showrooms across the area have signed up to accommodate a hole of golf.
The Clerkenwell Open is a concept developed by The Think Tank to give architects and designers the opportunity to explore the showrooms of Clerkenwell whilst having a bit of fun and raising money for charity. Each showroom houses an indoor hole of golf and the golfers travel around the showrooms to complete the course.
The tournament is open to individuals and teams and consists of nine holes within walking distance of each other culminating in an awards ceremony in the evening.
If you are interested in entering a team or individually or if you are a company that would like to sponsor the event please contact Dragana on 020 7831 2225 or email draganak@thinktank.org.uk.
July 1, 2010 Leave a comment
Inhabitat reports on the Dwell on Design event, commenting ‘This past weekend’s Dwell on Design event was bigger and better than ever before, with over 20,000 attendees pouring into the Los Angeles Convention center to check out the state of the art in modern design. Inhabitat was on-site with our own booth (thanks to Touch) and on-stage during our Design Innovation panel featuring Zoe Melo and Ruth Oh, a judge and designer from this year’s Spring Greening Contest.
Read more on Inhabitat
June 26, 2010 Leave a comment
This great range is designed by landscape architect Dagný Bjarnadóttir for Furnibloom using plexiglass to cleverly house plants of all sorts. You choose, spices, vegetables or flowers, all easily cultivated and visible within the set of tables and stools.
See more here on Furnibloom
June 24, 2010 Leave a comment
MocoLoco takes a look at some of the inspirational new designs at NeoCon. Joel Berman’s Heat Lamp (above), Luna Textiles’ fabrics and shoes, the Steelcase node by IDEO, Allsteel Link Light and Knoll’s new Antenna Workspaces, were five that caught their eye this year.
Read more on MocoLoco
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