New look, new codes, 'Symbio' is an all-round domestic receiver-transmitter that gift-wraps innovations: hifi sound, web radios and new services. eliumstudio have reinterpreted the archetype of the hand set in an expression that is sober, elegant and light. At the same time the object delivers real comfort: wide face, easy handling and even a shoulder-wedge function.
Brighten up your home all year round with this innovative electric candle light. When designing Joy candles, Josefin Hagberg was inspired by traditional wax candle casting. By combining traditional craftmanship and care with modern techniques, she gives Joy candles a personal dimension. The candles lean against and support each other forming a harmonious unit, symbolic of the joy of being with the one you love. Joy candles are made in steel and available in black and white, this low voltage light works well all over the world.
The house candleholder is a contemporary centerpiece for the modern and traditional interior. These stylish holders play on the traditional form of a house, replacing the chimney with a candle.
Christopher Farr has been at the spearhead of contemporary rug design for over twenty years. Together with his business partner Matthew Bourne, they were the catalyst that revolutionised contemporary rug design.
After four years of creative silence, Casimir is launching his own furniture under the new CasimirMeubelen brand. The new website is going live on 3 October 2008. The first prototypes of Casimir's new furniture designs will be available to
view in an exhibition at the Winkelhaak in Antwerp, Belgium from 3 October
to 6 November. The entrance is free. Casimir uses the semiotic well known form of a building-construction as the base of a piece of furniture "The Poutrel".
Here you can find already the first pictures of the Poutrel, the first new prototype of CasimirMeubelen! (Photography copyright - Annick Geenen)
The designers of this studio are Petr Mikošek and Michaela Vrátníková. Both authors cooperate on the projects focused on industrial production in the field of fashion, interior, graphic and product design. Simultaneously, under the BOA trade mark there rise the limited collections of fashion and interior accessories.
Most of the designs are realized in small series.
Electrolux, a global leader in home appliances, has chosen nine finalists to compete for first place in Electrolux Design Lab ’08 finals in Zurich, Switzerland, on October 9, 2008, where an international jury of renowned designers and experts will judge the entries and select a winner.
For Design Lab’s sixth edition, Electrolux invited undergraduate and graduate industrial design students to create tomorrow’s home appliances for the Internet generation. Submissions should be for 2-3 years into the future and address food storage, cooking, and/or washing. More than 600 entries were received from 49 countries around the world.
The main criteria are the originality of the concept, loyalty to Electrolux brand values, the creativeness of the design, consumer insight, and the degree to which the concept reflects such iGeneration core interests and concerns as mobility, convenience, time, materials, personalization, entertaining, technology, and sustainability.
MOCHA launches the Pictura Suspended Magazine Rack. The Pictura Suspended Magazine Rack is a great storage solution that combats untidy piles of magazines at home or in the office. The Pictura can hold approximately twelve magazines which are slipped in through the side. The open front of this modern magazine holder also acts as a frame; so display a stylish magazine cover in the front and the magazine rack becomes a work of art.
The Pictura magazine rack also works well in the kitchn for storing favourite food magazines and keeping those delicious recipes close at hand.
Fried Ulber has designed a very scaled-down collection made from stainless steel for CONMOTO. Simple solutions for the fireplace make its products simply unique. The Z-side table also serves as a newspaper or wood rack.
