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Plug

by Tomas Kral

For his Masters Degree project at École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL) in Switzerland, Tomas Kral created Plug, a range of products that transform the image of a simple cork bottle stopper.

Pieces

by Daniel Enoksson

Stockholm based designer Daniel Enoksson has designed a series of stools and benches out of pine, MDF and steel, as an exploration into colour and materiality.

The project entitled Pieces offers a number of simple solutions to an often overdesigned element.

www.danielenoksson.com

The first project to come out of Australia based design duo Danial & Emma is ‘Shapes’, a series of simple, thoughtful products that have been designed incorporating 4 basic geometric shapes; a circle, triangle, square, and pentagon.

The work consists of an FM Radio, Desk Fan, Dinnerset, Table with Stools, and a Cupboard.

Odds & Ends/Bits & Pieces

by Studio Jo Meesters

“Odds & Ends, Bits & Pieces” is the first collection to come out of Eindhoven based Studio Jo Meester’s TESTLAB.

The collection, which is entirely made out of 34 discarded wooden beams and 16 leftover blankets, is based on upholstering and weaving techniques creating soft variations of everyday objects.

X-Ray Lights

by Won-suk Cho

Korean Designer Won-suk Cho has designed a series of lights based on the light box commonly used to examine X-Ray film.

Cho’s whimsical lights are created by taking X-rays of single incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs. The images are subsequently mounted onto small black boxes which hang from the ceiling and once illuminated reveal their skeletal structure.

Save

by Katarina Häll

Combining her three key drivers of functionalism, simplicity and a sense of poetry, Swedish designer Katarina Häll has created Save, her latest furniture series.

Inspired by abandoned and forgotten houses, with their barred and bolted doors and windows, each piece in the collection intrigues the passer by while revealing nothing about the stories and treasures that lurk inside.

Anything But Red

by &Larry

As part of their Native Objects series, &Larry have designed “Anything but Red” a lamp reflecting one of the current cultural and societal issues of Singapore – “How can we be creative when there is so much red tape in Singapore?”

Trico Chair

Luís Porém Pires

Further proof that 'there's still life left in old chair yet', is emerging Portugese designer Luís Porém Pires' Trico Chair.

Working with the aim to create functional and versatile furniture, Pires' most recent piece offers distinguishable simplicity and character as a result of the harmonious joining of wood, metal and textiles.

Graffititek

by hellokarl

Graffititek is the latest piece by young French designer Charles Kalpakian. Based on Parisian Graffiti art, the bookcase aims to offer new perspective on the craft by reinterpreting it in a three-dimesional way.

Trading as hellokarl, Kalpakian has built his career working within the areas of interior and product design from his studio in Paris.

LavaFlower

Gudrun Lilja Gunnlaugsdottir

Made out of solid Icelandic lava stone, the design captures in a unique way Icelandic folktales.

Icelandic folktales recount stories of Huldufolk (the hidden people) who live inside rocks and cliffs.

Although their homes have rough outer appearance they possess an inner beauty.

www.bility.is

Sheer Wall

by Jesse Pietilä

Finnish designer Jesse Pietilä has created Sheer Wall for his MA thesis project at the University of Art and Design Helsinki.

Offering a new way to divide space in the era of visual culture, Sheer Wall investigates the possibility of creating ambivalent spatial experiences through the design of a laser-cut aluminum divider.

Transformer-shelf

Martin Sämmer

Space saving furniture has shot into popularity in recent years and Martin Sämmer's Transformer-shelf is a good example of a product that not only addresses the issue of clutter within twenty-first century living, but also deals with the confines of the domestic environment.

Accidentals

Els Woldhek

Accidentals is the result of using eletro-plating, the process of coating an object with a layer of metal via an electric current, as a means of creating naturally formed objects.

Paperchair

by Mario Stadelmann

While merging the fundamentals of seating design with a passion for sustainability recent RCA graduate, Mario Stadeimann, has come up with Paperchair, an innovative solution to sustainable seating.

Made from cast discarded newspaper and available in a variety of colours, Paperchair
is a eloquent seating design and welcome addition to the world of sustainable solutions.

Ontwerpduo

Nathan Wierink and Tineke Beunders

Having met while studying at the Design Academy Eindhoven, young Dutch designers Nathan Wierink and Tineke Beunders decided to join forces and establish the design studio Ontwerpduo in 2005.