Vienna Design Week 2011: "Ljod" Stool, Cool Furniture from Copa
Vienna Design Week is in full swing and we are delighted to be able to share our impressions from the Austrian capital. Now in its fifth year, the festival has a wide and very diverse selection of...
View ArticleCLOG Magazine Launch Party with Bjarke Ingels
New month, new magazine: October 1st saw the launch of an exciting new New York-based architecture magazine, CLOG. Set to publish thrice annually, each issue tackles a specific subject—the premiere...
View ArticleReclaimed Wood Products by Pioneer Millworks
Pioneer Millworks has been cranking out wood products since 1988, and the cool thing is the majority of it is reclaimed from existing structures rather than cutting down trees. (more...)
View ArticleMAD Crafting Modernism Exhibit Opens in One Week
Arthur Espenet Carpenter, Wine Rack, 1968 Opening one week from today at New York City's Museum of Arts and Design: The Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design show, spanning roughly...
View ArticleContinuum Fashion's Rapid Prototyped Bikini
Boston- and New-York-based Continuum Fashion is a company comprised of computational designers Mary Huang and Jenna Fizel, hard at work "creating the future of fashion and stuff." Their N12 bikini is...
View ArticlePapernomad: Mobile Cases for the 21st Century Nomad
Tear resistant, water resistant and flame retardant paper? Vienna-based collective, Papernomad creates bags and covers for mobile electronic devices for this generation of urban nomads. Made of 100%...
View ArticleLondon Design Festival 2011: "Pendola" Pendular Clock at Slow Tech
London based designers Joe Wentworth and Samuel Wilkinson have developed a new take on the pendular clock. As many of you may remember, Wilkinson designed the wildly popular Plumen bulb which we...
View ArticleKickstarting a Difference: Smallbean x Design Museum Boston Hope to Pair...
Our friends behind the Design Museum Boston, Derek Cascio and Sam Aquillano, are trying to Kickstart a project called "Designing a Difference" to unite nonprofit organizations with teams of industrial...
View ArticleTimbuk2 is seeking a Product Designer in San Francisco, CA
Product Designer Timbuk2San Francisco, CA Timbuk2 is seeking a Principle Product Designer who can leverage his or her experience designing brand name bags, shoes, accessories, or fashion to create...
View ArticleNorwegian Architecture Student Workshop Yields Unusual Exhibit Space
TreStykker is a semiannual workshop held for students from three architecture schools in Norway: The Bergen School of Architecture, the Oslo School of Architecture and the Norwegian University of...
View ArticleA Treeless Treehouse
We posted on California-based designer Jeff Casper's creations about a year ago (here and here), and in the time since, he's not been idle. Most recently Casper contributed to a project by friend and...
View ArticleVienna Design Week 2011: Passionswege, Philippe Malouin and J. & L. Lobmeyr
This year, Canadian designer Philippe Malouin was paired with the renowned Viennese glass company of J. & L. Lobmeyr through the annual Vienna Design Week Passionswege program. Erstwhile purveyors...
View ArticleTo Articulate or Not to Articulate?
It would be too easy to make a crass joke about iPhone mounts that suck, so let's just say that suction cup-based designs are getting a foothold—gaining traction suction, perhaps?—in the Apple...
View ArticleEl Vochol: Making Mexican Folk Art Pop
El Vocho as shot by Adrienne Bard in Mexico City. Combine the iconic Mexican culture expressions of the psychedelic Huichol and a Volkswagen Beetle or El Vocho as Mexicans have nicknamed it—and you get...
View ArticleNew LineUp Material: From Milk Bottles to Countertops
Materials company 3form's 100 Percent is a resin panel made completely from recycled HDPE bottles. Formed into 4x8 sheets, it has good impact-, flame-, chemical- and abrasion-resistant properties that...
View ArticleFloatspotting: Speculative Superconductivity by SupraDesign
Over the last week, we've seen two instances of vaguely sci-fi magnetic levitation IRL: Light Light's hover lamps and a Mag-Lev Train Set. The recent press has surfaced older projects, including Luc...
View ArticleBeijing Design Week 2011: CRATES by Naihan Li
Like most urban centers, Beijing is a city of migrants and transients—this year's inaugural Beijing Design Week dovetailed with National Day when people return to their hometowns to celebrate the...
View ArticleWant: E13's Upcycled SRS Day Bag
E13 is a design workshop founded by Joseph Kinzelman, Ryan Ball and Travis Hope, a trio of Ohio natives who met at the University of Cincinnati's architecture program. Insofar as "the architectural...
View ArticleVienna Design Week 2011: Passionswege, Tomas Alonso with Vienna Silver...
As we mentioned with yesterday's report on the Philippe Malouin and J&L Lobmeyr collaboration, the Passionswege ("pilgrimage ways") program of Vienna Design Week hooks up young international...
View ArticleCrayola is seeking a Product Designer in Easton, Pennsylvania
Product Designer CrayolaEaston, Pennsylvania This position develops innovative and creative products for the Crayola portfolio of product offerings. The Product Designer aims to provide an enjoyable...
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