The modular BLOXES MARAMEO Design

Freedom, originality, and innovation. These are the keywords for Marameo Design BLOXES interesting but especially for a series of modular elements to be composed to create partitions, tables, chairs and whatever your fancy. As you may have noticed this week was dedicated to your alerts (go on). What I propose today is... 

Helmet B, from armadillos to bicycle helmets!

Julien Bergignat draws Helmet B: a bicycle helmet light, durable, recyclable and bio-inspired. From the design of an armadillo helmet. Helmet B is born from the observation of a small armadillo, and the fact the design takes shape and the movement of the scales of this animal in an emergency is curled up to protect himself. This... 

Breathing chair, the chair of Wu Yu-Ying

Simple but the impact is the chair of the designer Wu Yu-Ying winner of Red Dot Award 2009. The inspiration came to the designer looking under the microscope a small section of tree bark cambium. Wu Yu-Ying is so able to discover the heart of this tree and the wonderful game of cells of different size and shape impossible... 

French Graphic Design

The Weissensee School of Art has launched a series of French graphic design. The next guest is on 20 May Tues Pierre Sciullo from Montreuil invited to lecture. The digital revolution and the increasing globalization of the visual language(s) has the self-modified by the French graphic design scene fundamentally. This is... 

Social Design: urban ecosystem

The Deutsche Architecture Center (DAZ) displays work of the most striking architectural urban ecosystem. The interdisciplinary team urban ecosystem combines architecture, urban planning, technology and sociology to a “creative urban sustainability”. The focus of their work, the city stands as a complex system... 

Trend spots lighting: Fancy Chandelier

Once the chandelier was the epitome of wealth in this country of the German bourgeoisie. He was long regarded as bourgeois (and the bourgeoisie). With the trend wave of opulent Neo-Baroque, he returned magnificently. In particular, the crystal company Swarovski is due to the fact that the chandelier is reinventing and... 

Just Another Toy, the game is huge

Will they remember each of them a different face in the little wooden cubes? This is a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle that is more interactive. Sara Ribbenstedt and Matilda Dominique join poured their mind to further develop this game in different versions of giant size. This game is very different, because the size of... 

Calendars 2011, between vintage and science fiction illustrations by Franco Brambilla

Franco Brambilla, illustrator who chose his first profession of devotion to science fiction, it is known in Italy for its historic collection of covers of Urania Mondadori. Abroad, his impeccable 3D has received several awards, especially since 2007 when France launched a series of tasty pictures titled Invading The Vintage. The... 

Thin Black Lines, the chair of hallucinatory Nendo for Phillips de Pury

The impact with the new collection of Nendo, Thin Black Lines, is very curious. At first glance it might seem the usual excitement minimalist, but focusing on the edges-just-as research, we realize that the intention is another. That play, with great irony, with our visual perceptions, working with lines (iron rod) to subtract... 

Karim Rashid designs tiles, metal ALLOY

A series of metallic tiles, predictable yet surprising, running seemingly identical uniforms and on walls that actually change the glance depending on how the light encounters them. Are the new creations by Karim Rashid for ALLOY, Australian brand that in the past had collaborated with the famous deisnger, said fascinated...