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Archive for January, 2009

January 18th, 2009

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London designer Gitta Gschwendtner has created a series of stools cast from moulds based on paper shopping bags. More »

January 17th, 2009

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A group of graduate students called Team 01Para, from the MArch Design Research Laboratory course at the Architectural Association in London have sent us these images of a conceptual design called Snap! – Bistable Structure.

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January 16th, 2009

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Los Angeles-based architects Studio Shift have designed Miyi Tower as part of a new town south of Miyi County in China. More »

January 16th, 2009

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The fifth of our Design Miami Chat Shows filmed in Miami last month features Israeli designer Arik Levy. More »

January 16th, 2009

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London designers Studio Glithero have produced a pair of self-supporting candles called Piqué and Double Piqué for Los Angeles design brand Artecnica. More »

January 16th, 2009

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French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed a modular room-dividing system called Clouds for textile manufacturers Kvadrat. More »

January 15th, 2009

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Here’s another guerrilla lighting project in Madrid by Spanish designers Luzinterruptus, which involved creating “cosy” places to relax and read crime novels in undesirable parts of town. More »

January 15th, 2009

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Kalmar Museum of Modern Art in Sweden was designed by Stockholm-based architects Tham + Videgard Hansson Arkitekter. More »

January 15th, 2009

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Czech-born architect Jan Kaplicky of Future Systems died in Prague yesterday, aged 71. See news reports for more info. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues.

January 15th, 2009

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Swiss watch company Pierre Junod have launched two new models, one designed by New York-based designers Massimo & Lella Vignelli (above) and another by Copenhagen-based designers Tobias Jacobsen & Soren Varming (below). More »

January 14th, 2009

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Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has designed two villas for private island Dellis Cay in the Caribbean. More »

January 14th, 2009

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Designers Keiko + Manabu have created an installation called Heart of Shapes at the Diesel Denim Gallery Aoyama in Tokyo, Japan. More »

January 14th, 2009

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The fourth of our Design Miami Chat Shows filmed in Miami last month features American architects Benjamin Aranda (above) and Chris Lasch of Aranda\Lasch. More »

January 13th, 2009

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Britain’s Royal Mail has issued a set of ten stamps celebrating 20th-century British design classics. More »

January 13th, 2009

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More from Swiss architects HHF: Artfarm is a gallery for a professional art collection, designed in collaboration with Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. More »