Just as the name alludes, Dutch designer Florian Kräutli has designed a curtain with magnets embedded within its fabric.
This versatile design can conform to random configurations of all sorts, giving the user the flexibility to shape the curtain in a multitude of ways, both open and closed.
Reminiscent of cottages and quilts, Amy Hunting’s Patchwork series is an elegant solution to scrapwood furniture.
Designed entirely from wood waste and off-cuts that were collected from factories in Denmark, Hunting’s collection is a fascinating exercise in materiality and form.
This summer, Jon Harrison added another merit to his name by becoming one of the latest students to graduate from the Royal College of Arts MA product design course.
Visitors of the Droog Website have chosen ‘Droog Aalto’ by Jan Ctvrtnik as the winning proposal for the Climate Competition.
While altering Alvar Aalto’s iconic design, which was based on the outline of a Finnish Lake, Ctvrtnik has created a visual reference point for the impacts of global warming.
Although many young designers have attempted to make a name for themselves by dreaming up the ‘perfect’ chair, very few are able to grasp fully the challenges of what has to be one of the most difficult products to design.
The Country in the City examines the effectual virtues of the countryside and how design could be used to encourage these in the urban context.
Having just graduated from Bucks Contemporary Furniture design course, Naoko Kanehira has gone on to pick up the New Designers Habitat Award, for her ‘Cushion Sofa’.
Having just scooped up London’s Business Design Centre’s New Designer of the Year award, there is no need to go into any great detail about why DeTank feels this Ravensbourne College product design student is one to keep your eye on.
Our particular favourite is Frommeld’s ‘Adapt’ shelving system, an ingenious take on your good old garden-variety.
Technicolor Bloom is a kaleidoscopic architectural prototype built from 1400 uniquely cut, flat plywood panels.
Working on the premise that, "Everyone loves it when a toaster has a good pop to it," Freddie Yauner has created 'The Highest Popping Toaster in the World', or ‘The Moaster’ as the culmination of his 'Because We Can' series of domestic objects.
Seattle-based Graypants have taken the cradle to cradle mantra to heart. By creating elegant pieces of sustainable furniture, from what most consider the refuse of our day to day lives, they have truly put into motion this idea of waste=food.
Victoria Wilmotte is one of the latest new talents to graduate from the RCA's Design Products MA course. Her work is an exploration around the themes of sculpture, drawing, gesture and the industrial process.
Speaking on her most recent work, 'A Domestic Landscape', Victoria explains the infuences and concepts that informed her collection of ceramics, table and stools.
As a direct result of his on-going investigation into process, form and craft, Simon Hasan has produced an accomplished array of products, including 'Vase Family', 'Bambi & Twist Stools', and Naked Radio for his graduate collection at the Royal College of Art.
A nod to the form of an old weathered sawhorse. The saw table-light references the furniture making of our ancestors and creates a ritual of turning on and off a light.
The scarred white oak surface houses several slots that provide varying degress of brightness to the interlocking nickel-plated lamp.
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There is nothing like poking a little fun at your own industry, which is exactly what Central St. Martins Student Olivia Lee has done with her graduation project "Limited Edition Designer Dolls", which consists of a series of plastic dolls of Karim Rashid, Zaha Hadid and Jaime Hayon.
In her own words Lee sums it up beautifully....
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