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Neon for the interior design of a chemist’s

Buj + Colón Arquitectos have designed a project for a chemist’s in the centre of Palencia that includes interior design and signage. Using neon as a defining component, Madrid based architects Raquel Buj and Pedro Colón have worked on the different possibilities that light offers, as a tool that links, illuminates and provides information both inside and outside.

 

Vertical neighbours in Barcelona, by Roldán + Berengué

Roldán + Beregué Architectes have designed the Torre Plaça Europa council housing building. Different openings and setbacks have been introduced in the façade and the remaining volumes have been split up and composed to generate a tower with five apparent levels although it is actually a 15 storey volume.

 

Ventilated façade with Fudermax' pieces and aluminium oulines.

Still in Llove, an ephemeral hotel; Dutch and Japanese design in Tokyo

Dutch and Japanese designers have come together to present Llove, a temporary exhibition-hotel that will open from October 22nd to November 23rd 2010 coinciding with the annual design fair Designtide Tokyo. Designers Richard Hutten, Joep Van Lieshout, Pieke Bergmans, Scholten & Baijings, Hideyuki Nakayama, Yuko Nagayama, Jo Nagasaka and Ryuji Nakamura have been chosen to develop the interior design of all the hotel rooms.

Óscar Mariné and Grupo Kettal, Spanish National Design Prize 2010

Designer Oscar Mariné and furniture designers GrupoKettal, have been awarded the 2010 Spanish national design prize conceded by the Spanish Science and Innovation State Department for most outstanding professional and most outstanding business respectively.

Art directioand graphic design for C International Photo Magazine, OMB, 2005-2010.

Learning design, the school that changes

Design careers, in all their specialities, are currently in vogue among young people; this is why design schools are seeing hundreds of students graduate each year. The people in charge of their training, teachers with long experience in the professional world of design, believe in a dynamic and multidisciplinary education that turns the classroom into an idea lab.