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Urban Garden, domestic gardening design
21.09.2010 | 11:53
Fench architect specialised in gardening design, Patrick Nadeau, has created the Urban Garden collection where hydroponic techniques are used to allow trees and plants to be kept in interior spaces. Made from polyester, and created for Authentics the textile-made Urban Garden containers introduce a new planting technique that requires little maintenance and has an internal watering system that...
Wotu Chair, the wooden tube chair
Pierluigi Cattermole
14.09.2010 | 14:20
Wotu Chair is a new ecologic ultra light chair produced by Lamm and designed by Dante Bonucelli. Made entirely from natural wood originating from forest areas under strict environmental control, and thanks to new technology not yet patented, the chair is manufactured with layers of thin beech wood sheets that are glued together and folded to produce wooden tubes.
Without the use of...
François Caspar
Carlo Branzaglia
14.09.2010 | 12:29
François Caspar is driven by a creative exuberance. A designer with a vibrant eye, he uses a combination of practice, experience, functionality and communication to confront his work. For Caspar, a poster is a tool for linguistic research that has many levels of sophistication. Widely known for his defence of professional culture, his work stands out for its high-quality, its focus on...
Thin Black Lines, a line between art and design
Gloria Inglis
10.09.2010 | 10:59
Like sketches drawn up in the thin air, Nendo designs 29 stainless steel pieces that turn the original schematic layout and the resulting planes, into a series of volumes that irreverently play with the visual perception of the onlooker. It would therefore in no way be fair to consider these works as just another reductionist neo-minimalistic proposal.
El Beyond the influence of the...
Air Multiplier, el ventilador sin aspas
07.09.2010 | 17:14
With Dyson’s Air Multiplier, a fan with no blades that is capable of multiplying air mass 18 times, it has again become evident that design plus technology very often means it is possible to innovate in the field of traditional products.
The air in this fan is propelled through a thin slit across the whole perimeter of the ring, thus creating a stream that travels through an...
A bucket seat
Gloria Inglis
03.09.2010 | 13:52
Breathing chair is a light, comfortable and sustainable seat that modifies its shape according to pressure, weight and the position of the body. After use, it reshapes to its original geometry without the use of any mechanism.
Composed of two layers of latex foam with controlled variable density, it takes advantage of the elasticity and the die cut of the material, (the latter derived from...
Kiko Farkas
Carlo Branzaglia
02.09.2010 | 13:07
Kiko Farkas is one of Brazil’s most active graphic designers. Through a rhythmical fluidity, his work manages to capture the ethereal ideas present in the creative process without weakening or rigidly fixing their meaning. In this way, his work exists in a space that is both moderns and contemporary without falling into contradiction. Working primarily as a poster designer, he has...
