Dezeen Screen: Nina Levett
Austrian designer Nina Levett mixes imagery from punk and pop culture into her designs for textiles, wallpaper and ceramics. Watch the movies » More »
Monthly archives: January 2012
FuelBand by Nike+
This wristband by sports brand Nike tracks your movement throughout the day and gives you points for being more active. More »
Lego PMD by Rosan Bosch and Rune Fjord
The best escape route from a meeting at the Denmark office of toy brand Lego is down a metal slide. More »
“Turning inwards, going backwards”:
new student immigration rules
Dezeen Wire: Tom Campbell of BOP Consulting has published an article on the company’s culture and creative industries blog slamming the UK government’s new student immigration rules as “a potential disaster for the UK’s creative and design sector.”
The new regulations are due to come into effect in April and mean non-EU students will no longer have the right to apply to stay in the UK upon completing their studies, instead returning home and “taking their talents, intellectual property and entrepreneurial energies with them.” Read the full article here.
The Grid of Santen by 403architecture
A neat row of wooden louvers conceals a small sleeping chamber inside the attic staffroom of a hair salon in Hamamatsu, Japan. More »
“Nendo hones its unusual charm”
- New York Times
Dezeen Wire: design critic Alice Rawsthorn interviews Japanese designer Oki Sato of Nendo about how the company got its name, the humour and stories behind their work and his current preoccupation with glass-blowing - New York Times
Nendo presented two exhibitions of their work in Paris last week: furniture that’s only stable when objects are placed on it and another collection at Carpernters Workshop Gallery that includes containers made of agricultural netting, tables with glass tops that have been allowed to flow outside their frames and huge blown-glass bubbles trapped in steel coffee tables.
See all our stories about Nendo here and watch our interview with Oki Sato on Dezeen Screen.
Stork Nest Farm by SGL Projekt
It may look like a giant bird’s nest but this stick-covered dome is actually a horse-riding arena in the Czech Republic. More »
Competition: five books by
Candy & Candy to be won
Competition: Dezeen and interior designers Candy & Candy have teamed up to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of their new book The Art of Design, which documents their luxury projects over the last ten years. More »
Ogimachi Global Dispensing
Pharmacy by TKY Japan
This tiny gabled pharmacy is squeezed into a narrow alleyway between two towering apartment blocks in Osaka. More »
Plissè by Hay
Paris 2012: get yourself organised with these colourful accordion-pleated document wallets by Copenhagen brand Hay, presented at Maison & Objet in Paris last week. More »
Temple to Perspective by Tom Greenall
and Jordan Hodgson for Alain de Botton
Following last week’s announcement that writer Alain de Botton plans to build a series of temples for atheists, here are some more images of the first structure planned for the City of London. More »
Breeze by HawaSoo
Seoul designers HawaSoo have designed a clothes rail, a lamp and a stool that are styled like components of a bicycle. More »
Object Dependencies Collection by Nendo
for Specimen Editions
Paris 2012: this collection of furniture by Japanese designers Nendo is stable only when objects are placed on it. More »
La Chambre aux Confitures by Noël
Dominguez and Agathe Delecourt
Jars of colourful preserves are treated like precious antiques at this Paris jam shop by French architects Noël Dominguez and Agathe Delecourt. More »
Murray Mews by Moxon Architects
Climbing plants grow in the recesses of this mysterious steel fence, which conceals the entrance to a renovated coach house in north London. More »