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Gravity stool by Jólan van der Wiel wins [D3] Contest at imm cologne

Dezeen Wire: designer Jólan van der Wiel has won the €3000 first prize in the [D3] Contest for young designers at trade fair imm cologne in Germany for his Gravity Stool shaped by magnets. He showed the machine used to make the pieces at Dezeen Platform in September and you can watch it in action in our movies on Dezeen Screen.

The second prize of €2000 was awarded to Lee Sanghyeok for his Listen to Your Hands Table and the third prize of €1000 went to Marc Bell & Robin Grasby for the Apollo lamp.

Read more about Jólan van der Wiel here and more about Cologne 2012 here.

City Music by Akko Goldenbeld

Dutch Design Week 2011: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Akko Goldenbeld has made a model of the city that plays the piano. More about City Music by Akko Goldenbeld

Melvin the Machine by HEYHEYHEY

In this movie filmed in a warehouse on the outskirts of Eindhoven, the ringing of an alarm clock triggers a chain of events that opens umbrellas, spins paper windmills, starts a fire and releases a set of parachuting toy animals (+ movie). More about Melvin the Machine by HEYHEYHEY

Jólan van der Wiel at Dezeen Platform

Dezeen Platform: in this interview we filmed at Dezeen Space, designer Jólan van der Wiel explains how his series of stools are shaped by magnets and gravity. Watch the movie »

Dezeen Platform: Jólan van der Wiel

Dezeen Platform: graduate designer Jólan van der Wiel creates a series of stools shaped by magnets live at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. More about Dezeen Platform: Jólan van der Wiel

The Sea Chair by Alexander Groves, Azusa Murakami and Kieren Jones

What if plastic polluting the seas could be harvested by a retired fishing trawler, then transformed into chairs by an onboard factory? More about The Sea Chair by Alexander Groves, Azusa Murakami and Kieren Jones

Broo-ver by Ben Fursdon

New Designers 2011: product design graduate Ben Fursdon has created the Broo-ver, a broom converted into a vacuum cleaner. More about Broo-ver by Ben Fursdon

The Solar Sinter by Markus Kayser

Show RCA 2011: German designer Markus Kayser has built a 3D-printing machine that uses sunlight and sand to make glass objects in the desert. More about The Solar Sinter by Markus Kayser

Tour of Intent with Tord Boontje

Our next movie filmed at Ventura Lambrate in Milan features Tord Boontje, head of design products at the Royal College of Art, giving a tour of work in the college's show Intent, including this bag-making machine by We Do Studio. More about Tour of Intent with Tord Boontje

Till You Stop by Mischer’Traxler

Vienna Design Week 2010: here's another machine by Mischer'Traxler (see their Nespresso Battery in our earlier story), this time a device for automatically decorating cakes. More about Till You Stop by Mischer’Traxler