Design
Optical chandelier by Stuart Haygarth
Stuart Haygarth has sent us a new photo of Optical, a chandelier made of lenses from unwanted prescription spectacles. More about Optical chandelier by Stuart Haygarth
Stuart Haygarth has sent us a new photo of Optical, a chandelier made of lenses from unwanted prescription spectacles. More about Optical chandelier by Stuart Haygarth
Our friends at Hungarian architecture and design site hg.hu have posted a series of images of Ross Lovegrove's Solar Tree solar-powered street light being installed in Vienna, prior to the official opening tonight. More about Solar Tree by Ross Lovegrove 2
Strato Cruiser is a concept for a "lifestyle zeppelin" developed by art director Tino Schaedler and Michael J Brown. More about Strato Cruiser airship concept by Tino Schaedler and Michael J Brown
Designhuis, a new centre for design in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, opens later this month with an inaugural exhibition by Studio Job. More about Bold by Studio Job at Designhuis, Eindhoven
British furniture brand Established & Sons presented an exhibition called Elevating Design in London last month, during the London Design Festival. More about Established & Sons: Elevating Design
The first working prototype of Loremo, an ultra lightweight car concept, was shown at the Frankfurt International Motor Show last month. More about Loremo lightweight car concept
Fashion designer Issey Miyake and industrial designer James Dyson have collaborated on the runway presentation of The Wind, Miyake's collection for Spring/Summer 2008. More about The Wind by Issey Miyake with James Dyson
Designer Robert Stadler is creating a lighting installation inside the church of Saint Paul in Paris during the Nuit Blanche all-night cultural festival in the city on 6 October. More about Lighting installation by Robert Stadler during Nuit Blanche in Paris
Here are photos of The Fluke, a sculptural piece by Ed Barber and Jay Osgerby of industrial designers BarberOsgerby. More about The Fluke by BarberOsgerby 2
Philip Michael Wolfson of Wolfson Design is showing a number of limited-edition and one-off furniture pieces at Covent Garden Super Design in London next week. More about Philip Michael Wolfson at Covent Garden Super Design
HiKARI is a series of timber lights by Danish designer Rasmus Fenhann, which were exhibited at the Made in Denmark exhibition at 100% Futures in London last month. More about HiKARI lights by Rasmus Fenhann
Industrial designers Priestman Goode have invented a simple, cheap landline telephone that fits inside an A5 envelope and can be sent via regular post. More about Post A Phone by Priestman Goode
Swiss designers Fulguro present their Rehouse/Bath project at the Château d’Avignon at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in France. More about Rehouse/Bath by Fulguro
Jurgen Bey has completed a classroom interior project at the Roc professional training school at Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. More about Roc Apeldoorn classroom by Jurgen Bey
Designer John Harrington showed his Cut Glasses chandelier (below) and illuminated cornice (above) at designersblock in London last weekend, during the London Design Festival. More about Cut Glasses by John Harrington at designersblock
Gitta Gschwendtner has designed a series of ten lamps that use low-energy candle-effect bulbs. More about Flame Lamps by Gitta Gschwendtner
J Mayer H Architects present two projects during the Art Forum Berlin art fair, which starts on 29 September. More about Chit.Chat and Positive.Negative by J Mayer H
Karen Ryan presented a new range of work called Untitled Lights at designersblock in London last week. More about Untitled Lights by Karen Ryan
Solar Tree is a solar-powered street lighting systemdesigned by Ross Lovegrove for the Museum for Angewandte Kunst (MAK) in Vienna. The lighting has been engineered by Artemide in collaboration with Sharp Solar. More about Solar Tree by Ross Lovegrove
Designer Alexander Kneller presented these two chairs at the Tent London show over the weekend, during the London Design Festival. More about Side Chair One and Two by Alexander Kneller