The 36 millimetre stainless steel and glass case contains an aluminium disc, with a wedge-shaped hole cut out of it, that slowly rotates, revealing one hour at a time, which, together with a minute hand, shows users only the information they need to tell the time. “The original idea was…
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Native & Co’s Mu collection celebrates cedar wood
Furniture and tableware brand Native & Co launched their latest collection entitled Mu at September’s London Design Festival. The collection, comprising six designs, celebrates the natural qualities of cedar wood, highlighting the grain in a variety of shapes from a simple circular platter and traditional plate, to a smooth ripple effect…
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Skinflint find and restore midcentury lighting
Once they’ve found the right pieces, they soda blast, polish, lacquer and / or rewire them to give them a new lease of life, bringing them up to today’s safety standards in the process, all without compromising their character. With over a thousand types of vintage and industrial lighting under…
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D&AD launch ‘New Blood’ award briefs
The D&AD has launched its annual New Blood awards, with 16 briefs developed in collaboration with real clients, to which young designers can respond and be in with the chance of winning a D&AD pencil. “This year’s brief line up for New Blood Awards 2017 has just been released,” says…
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Inside the studio of the Moomins creator
Born to artistic parents, Tove’s first illustrations were published when she was just 14 years old. “I’m working” was a phrase that cropped up frequently in her diaries, even at this young age – and referred to anything from drawing to actively seeking ideas. She studied at Stockholm’s University College…
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Troels Flensted creates a ceramic collection without using clay
Troels Flensted’s Poured Collection is handmade in Copenhagen and created by combining a mineral powder and water-based acrylic polymer. Various coloured pigments are added to the mixture before it is poured into a mould. The marble-like effect is unique to each smooth, polished piece, giving the feel of ceramic, but…
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Rachel Parker’s Northmore design features twice as many colours as a typical rug
Taking an existing Rachel Parker fabric for design studio Flock and working with rug retailer Floor Story to turn it into a rug seemed like a simple enough idea, but it quickly became apparent that there were big differences between the two media, especially when it came to colour. “When…
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Trifle Creative design new office space for MOO
Moving offices can be a daunting prospect, especially when your employees adore their previous home. Trifle Creative turned a drab, corporate shell into a warm and welcoming creative space that MOO’s London team couldn’t help but fall in love with. How do you move 200 employees from a topsy-turvy Shoreditch…
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Bethany Stafford designs building blocks for grown-ups
Bethany ‘s sculptural collection of ceramic block forms, entitled Brutalist Inspired Ceramics, comes in a range of contrasting and complementary colours, ranging from orange and petrol blue, to mid-grey and putty. The individual ‘Block Forms’ are bound with ‘Banded Forms’ (coloured elastic bands) that create bright compositions. Taking her inspiration…
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The Centiped is Olga Akulova’s take on a vintage shop counter
The Centiped was originally designed as a bespoke piece for a penthouse apartment on the 30th level of a condominium in Kiev to showcase the homeowner’s accessories. “We couldn’t find anything appropriate to display accessories because we didn’t have much space for a freestanding piece in the interior,” says Olha…
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Design Geek to create toolkit for Design Internships
Firstly, a huge thank you to interior design duo, the 2 Lovely Gays, award-winning designer Ella Doran, and editor of Intern Magazine, Alec Dudson, who were our invited experts, as well as everyone else who joined in the debate from actual interns to founder of the creative industry’s answer to…
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Emily Wiles turns a love of textiles into fluid ceramic forms
Emily Wiles has used her background in textiles to create a series of delicate porcelain pieces that take on the form of softly draped material. The folding and draping process used in textile and garment construction is the starting point for each piece, making every one unique. The decorative pieces…
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Norway pioneers ‘design for all’
Throughout September, London’s Somerset House played host to 37 countries all responding to the theme of Utopia by Design. Contributions varied wildly from the conceptual (Albania’s Bliss – “a concentric arrangement of stainless steel columns and benches designed to encourage self-reflection and solidarity”) to the emotional (France’s Le Bruit des…
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The best of the London Design Festival 2016
Top image from V&A Dundee showcase at V&A London – oak swing by Isabelle Moore, clothes on manakin by KellyDawn Riot and Hayley Scanlan.
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Violeta Kozlova’s jewellery releases perfume as it moves
Violeta Kozlova’s work focuses on traditional methods of crafting jewellery, creating folded, metal shapes in geometric forms. Once soldered into shape, each is powder-coated in either white, light or dark grey, and then finished with gold or silver leaf. Her first collection comprises pendants, rings, bangles, brooches and earrings. All one-off pieces,…
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CitizenM creates second ‘secret garden’ for LDF
To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, arguably Britain’s greatest playwright, CitizenM collaborated with their neighbours at the Globe to commission an installation for the hotel’s atrium. The temporary artwork is part of an annual series of secret garden installations, which last year saw Danish stylist…
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interview :: kara leigh ford
Kara Leigh Ford’s work is available from The Maker Place.
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37 countries interpret utopia at Somerset House
The exhibits, which include installations, artworks, prototypes and designs, are each a response to the Biennale’s 2016 theme Utopia by Design, chosen as part of Somerset House’s Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility, to mark the 500th anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s text. “When we set…
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interview :: bend goods
Bend Goods will be at the London Design Fair 22 – 25 September 2016. Register for your tickets here.
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Life drawing influences Samantha McNamara’s Ink ceramics
Comprising a series of thrown clay vessels and dishes, Samantha McNamara’s collection is available in a range of mini coloured clusters in white, blue, violet, green and blush. Each colour-way combines the muted hues with a contrasting band or line, which enables them to work independently or as a collection…
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The London Design Festival – A Design Geek’s Guide
Saturday 17 September 2016 Must see: Creative Matters Creative Matters is a four-day ‘creative futures’ forum including talks, workshops, master-classes, round-tables, installations, exhibitions and networking events. Don’t miss Yeshen Venema’s product photography demos and workshops – all day – and the Design Geek Round Table on Internships at 4pm, hosted…
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interview :: molly hutchinson
Molly Hutchinson will be exhibiting at the London Design Fair 22 – 25 September 2016. Register for your ticket here.
Furniture
Tandem’s space-saving furniture hangs from the walls
Comprising four individual pieces – a wardrobe, a desk, a shoe rack and seat, and a storage shelf – the Hanging Collection combines birch plywood with different facing materials including oak, melamine and desktop linoleum in a range of colours for a personalised look and feel. The minimal designs include soft, curved edges…
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interview :: domaas/høgh
Domaas/Högh will be exhibiting at 100% Norway as part of the London Design Fair 22 – 25 September 2016. Register for your ticket here.
Architecture
Serpentine adds four summer houses to annual pavilion
Hear Bjarke Ingels, Julia Peyton-Jones and Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist talk about the project in this short film.
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Francesca Moutafis makes six ceramic forms from two moulds
The new designer’s graduate collection, entitled Ambiguous Tableware, comprises six different clay vessels, each available in one of three earthy colours, and glazed on the inside only. As a group, they resemble archetypal tableware, but individually their simple, open forms defy definition, enabling the user to determine the function of each. Francesca’s research into ceramics,…
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London Design Fair celebrates Indian design
This Is India, co-curated by Tiipoi founder Spandana Gopal and the London Design Fair‘s Jimmy McDonald and designed by Kangan Arora, will showcase ten emerging and established India-centric designers and brands across product, textile and furniture, including Leah Singh, Aman Khanna and Objectry. “For the 10th Anniversary of the Fair…