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Beckmans College of Design Fashion Showcase
(29 January 2010) - by Richard Prime "In a Perfect World" is the upshot of a final assignment by twelve fashion students from Stockholm's Beckmans College of Design, who used the concept as inspiration for a collaborative exhibition of their individual designs. Taking place at one of the city's best department stores, the group show will highlight each designer's interpretation of utopian fashion. The range of concepts include ideas...
(29 January 2010) - by Richard Prime "In a Perfect World" is the upshot of a final assignment by twelve fashion students from Stockholm's Beckmans College of Design, who used the concept as inspiration for a collaborative exhibition of their individual designs. Taking place at one of the city's best department stores, the group show will highlight each designer's interpretation of utopian fashion. The range of concepts include ideas...
Belly Love
(05 January 2010) - With a shape inspired by coral and covered in glowing tentacles that move, Florence Jaffrain's "Belly Love" looks more like a prop from Burning Man than a piece of furniture. Prioritizing a more sensual experience, the Paris-based designer lined the womb-like structure with a new photo-luminescent textile comprised of thousands of tiny soft bristles with essential oil-diffusing microcapsules. The fabric cover "breathes" as well,...
(05 January 2010) - With a shape inspired by coral and covered in glowing tentacles that move, Florence Jaffrain's "Belly Love" looks more like a prop from Burning Man than a piece of furniture. Prioritizing a more sensual experience, the Paris-based designer lined the womb-like structure with a new photo-luminescent textile comprised of thousands of tiny soft bristles with essential oil-diffusing microcapsules. The fabric cover "breathes" as well,...
Luca Nichetto: Essence Collection
(18 December 2009) - Luca Nichetto designed Essence, a collection of household vessels and interior objects, to evoke the tools most commonly used in artisinal production. Each object in the line—vases, bowls, candle holders, tables—represents a moment in the production process, acting as a ghostly signifier of an object's genesis. For example, the vessels pair brilliantly colored glass bowls and vases with bone white ceramics with the surrounding...
(18 December 2009) - Luca Nichetto designed Essence, a collection of household vessels and interior objects, to evoke the tools most commonly used in artisinal production. Each object in the line—vases, bowls, candle holders, tables—represents a moment in the production process, acting as a ghostly signifier of an object's genesis. For example, the vessels pair brilliantly colored glass bowls and vases with bone white ceramics with the surrounding...
Mau Post-Industrial Folk Wear
(17 December 2009) - by Tisha Leung Mau, a design company and nickname of its founder Marian Schoettle, reinterprets wardrobe staples in Tyvek® for a collection of garments known as post-industrial folk wear. Ranging from a ruffle coat to dresses to a unisex anorak and accessories that include market bags and other totes, the artist (her previous work includes sound and light installations, teepee space modules for the...
(17 December 2009) - by Tisha Leung Mau, a design company and nickname of its founder Marian Schoettle, reinterprets wardrobe staples in Tyvek® for a collection of garments known as post-industrial folk wear. Ranging from a ruffle coat to dresses to a unisex anorak and accessories that include market bags and other totes, the artist (her previous work includes sound and light installations, teepee space modules for the...
Design Book: I Miss My Pencil
(14 December 2009) - by Tisha Leung More than another upmarket design book, "I Miss My Pencil" deeply explores the human connection with objects and examines designers' characteristically obsessive nature. The book documents twelve experiments that explore the less-talked-about significance of everyday objects, some dearly regarded and some usually taken for granted. Written by industrial designer and IDEO design director Martin Bone along with material scientist Kara Johnson, the...
(14 December 2009) - by Tisha Leung More than another upmarket design book, "I Miss My Pencil" deeply explores the human connection with objects and examines designers' characteristically obsessive nature. The book documents twelve experiments that explore the less-talked-about significance of everyday objects, some dearly regarded and some usually taken for granted. Written by industrial designer and IDEO design director Martin Bone along with material scientist Kara Johnson, the...
Jeremy Dean: Futurama
(10 December 2009) - Known during the Great Depression as "Hoover Wagons," artist Jeremy Dean's new series "Futurama" draws on the historical phenomenon of horse-pulled cars, repeating this lamentable bit of history with his own hybrid auto carts fashioned from the back ends of gas-guzzling Hummers and Escalades. At the recent Scope Miami art fair Dean showed life-like models—tricked out with quintessential details like functioning drop-down TVs and...
(10 December 2009) - Known during the Great Depression as "Hoover Wagons," artist Jeremy Dean's new series "Futurama" draws on the historical phenomenon of horse-pulled cars, repeating this lamentable bit of history with his own hybrid auto carts fashioned from the back ends of gas-guzzling Hummers and Escalades. At the recent Scope Miami art fair Dean showed life-like models—tricked out with quintessential details like functioning drop-down TVs and...
Slow and Steady Wins the Race Paris Pop-Up Shop
(04 December 2009) - by Zeva Bellel Photos by Fabrice Fortin The art-meets-fashion concept brand, Slow and Steady Wins the Race made "Presents," a series of limited-edition nesting boxes for their holiday pop-up shop in Paris. Inhabiting the Brachfeld gallery for the month of the December, the event marks the first time the NYC brand has brought its deconstructionist design ethos overseas. Rolling art and anticipation into one, the...
(04 December 2009) - by Zeva Bellel Photos by Fabrice Fortin The art-meets-fashion concept brand, Slow and Steady Wins the Race made "Presents," a series of limited-edition nesting boxes for their holiday pop-up shop in Paris. Inhabiting the Brachfeld gallery for the month of the December, the event marks the first time the NYC brand has brought its deconstructionist design ethos overseas. Rolling art and anticipation into one, the...
Committee: Plastic Relics
(30 November 2009) - by Richard Prime Deptford, London-based Committee, one of the firms most cleverly adopting cradle-to-cradle design practices, recently launched a new conceptual series called Plastic Relics, a project exploring the links between traditional crafts and new design approaches. Using 3D scanning and CAD design expertise, Committee designers customize vessels to fit lids sourced from 21st century plastic ephemera, like a telephone receiver and a Dyson...
(30 November 2009) - by Richard Prime Deptford, London-based Committee, one of the firms most cleverly adopting cradle-to-cradle design practices, recently launched a new conceptual series called Plastic Relics, a project exploring the links between traditional crafts and new design approaches. Using 3D scanning and CAD design expertise, Committee designers customize vessels to fit lids sourced from 21st century plastic ephemera, like a telephone receiver and a Dyson...
Cool Hunting Video Presents: Pre-view/Test Drive
(21 October 2009) - by Gregory Mitnick and Evan LaMagnaIn this video, we visit artist Seth Kinmont as he readies his wooden electric car for its NYC debut at Project No. 8. Kinmont explains his conceptual approach and takes us on a joyride through the city....
(21 October 2009) - by Gregory Mitnick and Evan LaMagnaIn this video, we visit artist Seth Kinmont as he readies his wooden electric car for its NYC debut at Project No. 8. Kinmont explains his conceptual approach and takes us on a joyride through the city....
Active Furniture
(14 October 2009) - Active Furniture, a project by Spanish designers Virginia Pol, Ferran Lajara and Cristina Guardiola, uses counter-intuitive design as an antidote to our increasingly sedentary lives. The three objects—a floor lamp, a desk and a wall hanger—each require a level of exertion on the user's part to function. The floor lamp must be held upright, both to illuminate the bulb and keep the lamp vertical....
(14 October 2009) - Active Furniture, a project by Spanish designers Virginia Pol, Ferran Lajara and Cristina Guardiola, uses counter-intuitive design as an antidote to our increasingly sedentary lives. The three objects—a floor lamp, a desk and a wall hanger—each require a level of exertion on the user's part to function. The floor lamp must be held upright, both to illuminate the bulb and keep the lamp vertical....
OuTable
(08 September 2009) - OuTable, a collection of conceptual plastic utensils for outdoor dining, brings the poetry of nature to such humble items as the spoon. Designed by the clever Israeli-based firm d-Vision, the "neo-naturist" project takes inspiration from the simple beauty of eating outdoors with friends or family. With varying shapes and sizes that echo the organic forms found in nature, the collection also speaks to an...
(08 September 2009) - OuTable, a collection of conceptual plastic utensils for outdoor dining, brings the poetry of nature to such humble items as the spoon. Designed by the clever Israeli-based firm d-Vision, the "neo-naturist" project takes inspiration from the simple beauty of eating outdoors with friends or family. With varying shapes and sizes that echo the organic forms found in nature, the collection also speaks to an...
Jonathan Schipper: Irreversibility
(13 May 2009) - With his high-concept mechanics, artist Jonathan Schipper's latest exhibition, "Irreversibility," is just as stunningly clever as the animatronic sculpture we watched him build a few years ago. Held at Brooklyn's Pierogi Gallery, the show is both a spectacle and showcase of recent sculptures and installations by Schipper, including "The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle," (pictured above) in which a live, head-on collision takes...
(13 May 2009) - With his high-concept mechanics, artist Jonathan Schipper's latest exhibition, "Irreversibility," is just as stunningly clever as the animatronic sculpture we watched him build a few years ago. Held at Brooklyn's Pierogi Gallery, the show is both a spectacle and showcase of recent sculptures and installations by Schipper, including "The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle," (pictured above) in which a live, head-on collision takes...
Kate Bernauer Photography
(23 April 2009) - The photography of Brisbane-based artist Kate Bernauer contains a narrative and that's no accident. She constructs her pictures with theatrical lighting and props in specific locations to construct a story. For example, the intention of her Sydney exhibition, "I’ll Be Home For Dinner," is to "address the contradictions and absurdities of everyday life." Ideas for her pictures come from dreams, along with absurd true...
(23 April 2009) - The photography of Brisbane-based artist Kate Bernauer contains a narrative and that's no accident. She constructs her pictures with theatrical lighting and props in specific locations to construct a story. For example, the intention of her Sydney exhibition, "I’ll Be Home For Dinner," is to "address the contradictions and absurdities of everyday life." Ideas for her pictures come from dreams, along with absurd true...
Frederik Roijé: Two of a Kind Ring
(05 February 2009) - Bucking nearly every Valentine's Day gift cliché out there by dispensing with traditional materials, colors, ornamentation and the like, this porcelain double ring is a minimalist piece of jewelry that still packs a sweetly sentimental punch. Designed by Dutch designer Frederik Roijé and produced by Droog, "in breaking the ring an engagement with each other will exist." We can't think of a more elegant...
(05 February 2009) - Bucking nearly every Valentine's Day gift cliché out there by dispensing with traditional materials, colors, ornamentation and the like, this porcelain double ring is a minimalist piece of jewelry that still packs a sweetly sentimental punch. Designed by Dutch designer Frederik Roijé and produced by Droog, "in breaking the ring an engagement with each other will exist." We can't think of a more elegant...
NamelessleTTer Project
(16 January 2009) - Meant to provoke curiosity, NamelessleTTer is a new project in which people from all horizons leave personalized notes or bookmarks in random books with the goal of seeing other readers discover them. The nameless creators of NamelessleTTer ask that your unattributed note is as well-suited and clever as possible, like this McDonald's Korea receipt left in an edition of Zagat 2009 or the Get...
(16 January 2009) - Meant to provoke curiosity, NamelessleTTer is a new project in which people from all horizons leave personalized notes or bookmarks in random books with the goal of seeing other readers discover them. The nameless creators of NamelessleTTer ask that your unattributed note is as well-suited and clever as possible, like this McDonald's Korea receipt left in an edition of Zagat 2009 or the Get...
Swing Skirt
(13 January 2009) - by Ariston Anderson While waiting for a train, hanging in a park or simply wanting to take a playful break throughout the day, Rachel Griffin's hand-knotted swing skirt is an outfit that becomes an insta-swing anywhere, anytime. All that's needed is something sturdy to anchor the ropes and a love for keeping life interesting. We were a bit skeptical on how functional this swing could...
(13 January 2009) - by Ariston Anderson While waiting for a train, hanging in a park or simply wanting to take a playful break throughout the day, Rachel Griffin's hand-knotted swing skirt is an outfit that becomes an insta-swing anywhere, anytime. All that's needed is something sturdy to anchor the ropes and a love for keeping life interesting. We were a bit skeptical on how functional this swing could...
Francesco Sommacal: 360
(16 December 2008) - Adrenaline nuts searching for the latest extreme sport have a new toy, the 360. A recent recipient of a the Red Dot luminary design award, the 360 simulates the mechanics of snowboarding, surfing or skating, using a pair of wheels connected by a flexible, highly adjustable crossbar. The innovative design places the rider's feet inside the hole at the center of each orbital wheel....
(16 December 2008) - Adrenaline nuts searching for the latest extreme sport have a new toy, the 360. A recent recipient of a the Red Dot luminary design award, the 360 simulates the mechanics of snowboarding, surfing or skating, using a pair of wheels connected by a flexible, highly adjustable crossbar. The innovative design places the rider's feet inside the hole at the center of each orbital wheel....
BRΙΕFC(eramic)ACE
(08 December 2008) - Although business documents are swiftly transitioning from paper to digital, there's still room for innovative briefcase design. Case in point, Alexandros Stasinopoulos's high-tech concept for BRΙΕFC(eramic)ACE. Though clumsily titled, the case is a sleek, hardshell container that makes extensive use of Zirconium Oxide, an extremely rigid though rarely utilized form of ceramic. The project looks to reconcile the primitive nature of ceramics (think traditional...
(08 December 2008) - Although business documents are swiftly transitioning from paper to digital, there's still room for innovative briefcase design. Case in point, Alexandros Stasinopoulos's high-tech concept for BRΙΕFC(eramic)ACE. Though clumsily titled, the case is a sleek, hardshell container that makes extensive use of Zirconium Oxide, an extremely rigid though rarely utilized form of ceramic. The project looks to reconcile the primitive nature of ceramics (think traditional...
Illustrator Oscar Giminez
(26 November 2008) - Says Barcelona-based illustrator, Oscar Giminez, of his beautiful line drawings, "I used to be a big fan of fashion illustration. When I started illustrating, that's what everybody was doing, at least in Barcelona. But I get so easily distracted and bored with trends that I quickly came off it. However, it looks like a few people out there thought I had to pay off for...
(26 November 2008) - Says Barcelona-based illustrator, Oscar Giminez, of his beautiful line drawings, "I used to be a big fan of fashion illustration. When I started illustrating, that's what everybody was doing, at least in Barcelona. But I get so easily distracted and bored with trends that I quickly came off it. However, it looks like a few people out there thought I had to pay off for...
28th São Paulo Biennial
(29 October 2008) - In spite of strong criticism about its anti-biennial "In Living Contact" theme, the 28th São Paulo Biennial nevertheless seemed to please attendees at the kickoff last Saturday, probably due in part to the hands-on participation element. Everyone left with tons of reading material in their hands, from little art books to mini posters. Curated by Ivo Mesquita and Ana Paula Cohen, this year's biennial...
(29 October 2008) - In spite of strong criticism about its anti-biennial "In Living Contact" theme, the 28th São Paulo Biennial nevertheless seemed to please attendees at the kickoff last Saturday, probably due in part to the hands-on participation element. Everyone left with tons of reading material in their hands, from little art books to mini posters. Curated by Ivo Mesquita and Ana Paula Cohen, this year's biennial...
Seven Deadly Glasses
(16 October 2008) - The Talent Zone at Tent during the London Design Festival was a rich source of creativity. After being wowed by Debbie Smyth's Pins and Thread installation, the nearby dramatically-titled Deadly Glasses caught our attention. The elaborate opulence of designer Kacper Hamilton's work directly contrasts the minimalism of Smyth's. His seven hand-blown red wine glasses were exhibited in and around a beautiful wooden box with...
(16 October 2008) - The Talent Zone at Tent during the London Design Festival was a rich source of creativity. After being wowed by Debbie Smyth's Pins and Thread installation, the nearby dramatically-titled Deadly Glasses caught our attention. The elaborate opulence of designer Kacper Hamilton's work directly contrasts the minimalism of Smyth's. His seven hand-blown red wine glasses were exhibited in and around a beautiful wooden box with...
Safe by Rebecca Turbow Spring 09 Sneak Peek
(14 October 2008) - We've been fans of Brooklyn-based conceptual fashion designer Rebecca Turbow for years. Known for her space-age, mod-influenced designs and her signature look (she dressed in a palette of exclusively turquoise and white for over six years), Turbow recently transitioned into a new colorway of sleek grey and silver. Her Fall 2008 collection, available now at her online store, features sophisticated basics like a Button...
(14 October 2008) - We've been fans of Brooklyn-based conceptual fashion designer Rebecca Turbow for years. Known for her space-age, mod-influenced designs and her signature look (she dressed in a palette of exclusively turquoise and white for over six years), Turbow recently transitioned into a new colorway of sleek grey and silver. Her Fall 2008 collection, available now at her online store, features sophisticated basics like a Button...
Self Edge "Never On Sunday" Shirt
(30 September 2008) - As an homage to Jules Dassin, the blacklisted and recently-deceased director of the 1960 film Pote Tin Kyriaki (Never on Sunday), Self Edge's newest concept shirt is a reproduction of the same shirt the protaganist, Homer, wears towards the end of the narrative. Made of 9-oz black denim from Cone Denim's White Oak collection out of North Carolina, the western style shirt features vintage...
(30 September 2008) - As an homage to Jules Dassin, the blacklisted and recently-deceased director of the 1960 film Pote Tin Kyriaki (Never on Sunday), Self Edge's newest concept shirt is a reproduction of the same shirt the protaganist, Homer, wears towards the end of the narrative. Made of 9-oz black denim from Cone Denim's White Oak collection out of North Carolina, the western style shirt features vintage...
Grandfather Clock by Rob Price
(30 September 2008) - by China Young Rob Price made a name for himself with the Grandfather Clock, a modern, abstracted take on the classic. Although you may have seen his slice of the traditional before (he debuted it last year), we think the way the design literally cuts away the excess material while still echoing the classic in a completely fresh way deserves a closer look. Cool Hunting...
(30 September 2008) - by China Young Rob Price made a name for himself with the Grandfather Clock, a modern, abstracted take on the classic. Although you may have seen his slice of the traditional before (he debuted it last year), we think the way the design literally cuts away the excess material while still echoing the classic in a completely fresh way deserves a closer look. Cool Hunting...
Daniel Eatock: Imprint
(06 August 2008) - "Imprint" is the first monograph from London-based artist and designer Daniel Eatock. The book chronicles a series of often personal, always conceptual projects that blur the line between art and commercial design. Written and arranged by the man himself, Imprint succeeds in depicting the diverse, scattered nature of his work. With no systematic structure, he litters the book's pages with almost 1,000 images of...
(06 August 2008) - "Imprint" is the first monograph from London-based artist and designer Daniel Eatock. The book chronicles a series of often personal, always conceptual projects that blur the line between art and commercial design. Written and arranged by the man himself, Imprint succeeds in depicting the diverse, scattered nature of his work. With no systematic structure, he litters the book's pages with almost 1,000 images of...
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