This article was published 10 years Collarged is a collection of 17 printed textile designs featuring oversized abstract forms in bright primary colours inspired by playgrounds, skate parks and climbing walls. “This collection works to inject a feeling of recreation into interior environments through the use of strong, graphic pattern…
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Book about tidying up inspires furniture collection
This article was published 10 years LYNKO is a series of wooden-hinged powder-coated metal frames, with a selection of accessories that turn them into storage systems for bedroom, kitchen or bathroom. Developed in response to a more transient population, they are designed to be customised and then folded up and…
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Fern Robinson’s jewellery encourages play
This article was published 10 years The collection includes a necklace made from a ‘Slinky’ spring toy, one which is half pencil and half encased pencil shavings, a ring which doubles up as a maze toy which you tilt to get the ball inside from one end to the other…
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Philippe Hohlfeld’s floating farms fill empty shipping containers
This article was published 10 years Due to an imbalance between imports and exports, every year 26.1 million shipping container loads travel from China, but only 12.9m loads travel back to China – meaning that half of the containers going back to Asia are empty, a fact that designer Innovation Design Engineering…
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Exhibition to highlight the link between dyslexia and creativity
This article was published 10 yearsIt’s estimated that up to 1 in every 10 – 20 people in the UK has some degree of dyslexia – a learning difficulty that can cause problems with reading, writing and spelling, with 4{ff546b69e23b1524d799f96c6ba7a638e1f677053b0a2a1568b05315fd5f8fc7} of the population being severely affected. However, for some, the…
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Alexander Loudon’s viewfinders reframe coastal vistas
This article was published 10 years In a modern take on the telescopic viewfinders many of us spent childhood holidays putting 10p into before standing on tiptoes to see a magnified version of the view that was right in front of us, people are invited to put their heads inside a…
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Olivia Hildebrand makes bus travel easier for blind people
This article was published 10 yearsAlmost two million people in the UK, and one in five people over the age of 75, are living with significant sight loss – more have low or partial sight. Often unable to drive, many of these people are utterly reliant on public transport. A…
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Thomas Widdershoven resigns from Design Academy Eindhoven
This article was published 10 years Widdershoven will appear at the opening of the academic year on 06 September to say goodbye to students, teachers and staff, and will attend the official opening of the Broken White exhibition – a cooperation between Design Academy Eindhoven and the Van Abbemuseum –…
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Max Lamb designs glasses shaped like two lemons
This article was published 10 yearsThe use of specific glasses for specific drinks is not a new idea – wine, beer and cocktails are all traditionally served in specialist glasses said to improve aroma and flavour. But soft drinks usually just get chucked into the nearest tumbler. That’s all set…
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Klavdija Jarc launches multifunctional stool on Kickstarter
This article was published 10 years The Woodieful Chair is an a-shaped laminated beech object comprising two solid edges at right angles to one another, and four c-shaped slats with spaces in between to enable objects such as books and magazines to be slotted between them. Turned on its…
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Design Museum announces 2016 Designers in Residence
This article was published 10 years London’s Design Museum has announced the ninth cohort of new designers to benefit from its annual Designers in Residence programme. The four are Alix Bizet, Clementine Blakemore, Andrea de Chirico and Rain Wu. The designers will spend the next four months responding to the…
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New Design Museum will open on 24 November 2016
This article was published 10 years The Design Museum has just announced that it will open the doors of its new Kensington High Street venue on 24 November 2016, having spent £83 million on the John Pawson-designed transformation of the Grade II* listed former Commonwealth Institute building. “This move will…
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Design PR quits her job to launch ‘Ruthless People’ furniture collection
This article was published 10 years Lisa McMillan, formerly of leading design PR agency Camron, has turned her back on a career in public relations to launch a six-piece furniture collection, entitled Ruthless People. The collection, which comprises a dining table, a stool, two mirrors, a side table and a…
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Aalto University wins award for new cotton recycling technique
This article was published 10 years Researchers from the School of Arts, Design and Architecture and the School of Chemical Technology at Helsinki’s Aalto University have won the top H&M Global Change Award for a recycling technique that converts waste-cotton into new textiles. The conversion of the existing ‘Ioncell-F process’…
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Students at Aalto University create 14 different chairs from blackened ash
This article was published 10 years 14 Product and Spatial Design Masters students at Finland’s Aalto University School of Arts, Design, and Architecture each responded to the brief for a café chair to be made from the same material – blackened ash – resulting in 14 different prototypes. Kuu by…
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Look Like Love launches talent search for new designers
This article was published 10 years Online sales platform for new designers, Look Like Love, has launched its third annual New Talent Search – a quest to find emerging creatives it can “support, nurture and promote.” Founded in 2011 by designer Kate Brewer, the site provides the first step into…
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Andrea Ponti launches side table inspired by Hong Kong street signs
This article was published 11 years Italian designer Andrea Ponti’s Kanban steel and concrete side table references Hong Kong’s industrial architecture in its materials and Kowloon’s distinctive neon signage in its form. The table comprises a concrete drum-shaped base with a steel cuff at the top, out from which protrudes…
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confessions of a design geek raises £1,750 in new charity partnership
This article was published 11 years I am delighted to announce a new charity partnership between confessions of a design geek and the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Trust. As a blogger and journalist I am incredibly lucky to be given a number of promotional gifts and sample products in the course…
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Max Lamb slices up 187-year-old tree to make 130 functional objects.
This article was published 11 years Max Lamb, who grew up in Cornwall’s St Austell and is now based in London, felled a 187-year-old tree on his Grandfather’s Yorkshire farm and sliced it into 130 useable objects to save it from being used as firewood. The slices were displayed in…