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By Perrin Drumm - Nov 19, 2012
A Guggenheim-esque Rotunda Grows in the Bavarian Forest
The Bavarian Forest National Park recently built a towering, egg-shaped vantage point called the Tree Top Walk, a 150 foot high open air lookout built around three massive fir trees each measuring 125 feet around. From the top, visitors can take in sweeping views of the surrounding mountain ranges, including...
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By Perrin Drumm - Nov 16, 2012
Castor Upcycles Materials That Have Taken a Beating
Toronto-based design group Castor gets called a lot of names, especially sustainable—that S word whose egregious misuse irks us so. Not that Castor isn't sustainable, there are just so many better ways to describe them. Founders Kei Ng and Brian Richer say their furniture and lighting collection has a "sense...
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By Perrin Drumm - Nov 06, 2012
Hybrid Analog-Digital Mixing Console, by UM Project
Images by Francis Dzikowski/ EstoSince we visited UM Project's Brooklyn studio, earlier this year, founder François Chambard has produced an impressive amount of work. It seems that we can't go brunch and boutique-hopping without coming across a couple of his best-selling Milking Stools in an array of bright colors, but...
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By Perrin Drumm - Nov 06, 2012
Book Review: "Why Shrink-wrap a Cucumber? The Complete Guide to Environmental Packaging"
Though over-packaging is often seen as the epitome of excess, it's really only the tip of the iceberg of a resource-hungry process. According to Laurel Miller and Stephen Aldridge, authors of Why Shrink-wrap A Cucumber? The Complete Guide to Environmental Packaging (Laurence King, 2012): "As is befitting in a convenience...
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By Perrin Drumm - Nov 05, 2012
Frank Gehry's Panamanian Biomuseum: Pretty, or Pretty Ugly?
Photos courtesy Biomusueo, copyright Victoria Murillo.Even though Frank Gehry's new Biomuseo has received support from Panama's federal government, the Smithsonian Institute, the Amador Foundation and the University of Panama, as well as reserved but positive commentary from a smattering of architecture blogs, we're a little surprised that we're the one...
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By Perrin Drumm - Nov 01, 2012
Book Review: "Stripes: Design Between The Lines"
Perhaps it's my personal obsession with nautical shirts, but when I think of stripes I think of my dangerous addiction to Petite Bateau and handmade espadrilles. Design editor Linda O'Keeffe, however, takes stripes to another level in her new book Stripes: Design Between The Lines. In it, O'Keeffe traces the...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 31, 2012
Getting It Right the First Time: Hands-On Review of the Ultimate Spatula
Add this new acronym to your phrase book: GIR, or Get It Right. For their very first product, the designers at GIR have cooked up what they're calling the Ultimate Spatula, a single piece of molded silicone that's easy to hold, easy to clean and can handle food temperatures up...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 31, 2012
New From Deadgood: EXTL Lighting by David Irwin
We're pretty bummed that David Irwin's functional, miner-inspired M Lamp didn't reach its Kickstarter funding goal, but you can still get your hands on new lighting by Irwin with the ETXL lighting series he designed for Deadgood. Short for extruded lights, the two different EXTL lights are small, faceted pendants...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 30, 2012
Adjustable Felt Boom Lamp, by Group Design
Inspired by the boom poles used on film productions, the brand new Boom Lamp by Hackney-based studio, Group Design, is an oversized floor lamp born from a series of experiments in adjustability and scale. Richard Wells and Jeremy Scott, the studio's founders, applied their backgrounds in product design and architecture...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 24, 2012
A Conversation In Tribute to Bill Moggridge, 1943 - 2012
We all owe Bill Moggridge more than we think we do. In fact, anyone who uses a laptop has Bill to thank for being the first person to design one, blowing minds when he brought portability to computer hardware for GRiD Systems in 1982. It was Moggridge's idea to create...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 24, 2012
Howeler + Yoon's Jetsons-esque Vision for 2030 Mobility
Whether you were aware of it or not, if you live in Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore or Washington D.C. you officially reside in Boswash territory, a 400 mile swath home to more than 53 million people. If you commute between any of those cities then you're especially aware of the...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 23, 2012
Book Review: Taschen's "Design of the 20th Century"
Design of the 20th Century is one of those books that ought to be on the shelves of every designer, design student, teacher, historian, enthusiast or newbie. Hefty and sweeping yet affordable and compact, this veritable Bible that covers design from the past hundred years is, at the very least,...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 22, 2012
Zip Ties and Plywood: The Strong and Simple T.Shelf
Whether it's your growing collection of miniature designer chairs or original Star Wars memorabilia (no judgments either way) that shows no signs of stopping, J1studio's simple and sturdy T.Shelf is perfect for showing it off no matter what stage of collective completion it's in. Based on the "strongest geometric shape,...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 22, 2012
Product Update: Sebastien Tellier x La Boite Concept
Last month we blogged about the new line of laptop desks La Boite Concept debuted at 100% Design during London Design Week. The LD series, available in 100, 120 or 130 watts, is still the first and only high end docking station dedicated to the laptop, as opposed to the...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 19, 2012
LiquiGlide: MIT's Slippery Coating Liberates Ketchup
...and Mustard!"Use a knife!" "Smack the 57!" "Hold it at a 45-degree angle!" Ketchup eaters have long been giving and receiving such advice on the art of beckoning their beloved condiment from its bottle, but thanks to the Varanasi Group at MIT, ketchup lovers will no longer lose the battle. Though the...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 17, 2012
Call For GIF Submissions: "Moving the Still"
Today Tumblr and Paddle8 will announce their upcoming exhibition and call for submissions to Moving the Still, which will examine the GIF as an art form. If you've been making GIFs since their emergence 25 years ago, now's your chance to present your best mini animations to a selection council...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 16, 2012
Shroom, Public Outdoor Lights for Norwegian Cities, by Ralston & Bau
After working with elderly people in a Norwegian village, Birgitta Ralston and Alexandre Bau of Ralston & Bau, wanted to create an outdoor lighting system specifically for Nordic cities, which are situated close to nature and have long, dark nights during wintertime. It was also important to Ralston & Bau...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 15, 2012
Yohji Yamamoto Closes as Holon Fashion Week Begins
Yohji Yamamoto in the Courtyard of the Design Museum HolonFollowing our trip to Tel Aviv to cover Holon Design Week earlier this year, Design Museum Holon (DMH) mounted Yohji Yamamoto's first solo exhibition in Israel, a site-specific installation that was something of a ground breaker for the museum, which had...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 12, 2012
Now Open: The Library At The Public Theater by Rockwell Group
Images by Noah FecksIf you've seen a performance at The Public Theater in the last year and been ushered across the torn up lobby floor, tiptoed over rocky wooden boards lining hallways lit by emergency lights and coated in layers of construction dust, then you'll be as pleased as we...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 10, 2012
Book Review> Going Public: Public Architecture, Urbanism and Interventions
Tverrfjellhytta - Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion, by Snohetta in Hjerkinn, Norway, 2011Tverrfjellhytta - Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion, by Snohetta in Hjerkinn, Norway, 2011Urbanism—the omnipresent buzz word that encompasses every aspect of our lives affected by the space crunch that grows along with the global population—is on the tip...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 09, 2012
L-Lamp: Perfecting a Prototype
Image courtesy of Wallpaper*You might recognize Sylvia Holthen for her AK-47 Safety Lock, the innovative gun lock that helped to prevent accidental shots in conflict zones, which we featured in our 2012 Design Awards. Her latest product, the L-Lamp, may not be quite as socially impactful but it's nonetheless practical...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 08, 2012
Kickstart This: Wireless M Lamp
What was the coal miner's greatest friend? His sturdy work boots? His trusty pickaxe? The chirping canary? Actually, it's said that the single most important invention for 19th-century miners was the lamp. With that in mind David Irwin designed the M Lamp, a wireless task lamp he's calling "the ultimate...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 02, 2012
London Design Festival 2012: Field Guide's Happiness Machine
Field Guide is a loose collective of designers, artists, technologists, musicians and journalists engaged with projects that focus on "the materiality of things that are immaterial, such as electricity, sound, light, emotions and the Internet." Often times these projects are ongoing works in progress or open-ended experiments that are, admittedly,...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 01, 2012
London Design Festival 2012: Live Vertically with the Magnetic 'Magic Wall' at 100% Design
We don't know if Viennese apartments are even smaller than those in New York, but the city's latest export seems to be made especially for cramped city dwellers. The Magic Wall, shown at 100% Design during London Design Festival, is a system of magnetic panels that you affix to the...
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By Perrin Drumm - Oct 01, 2012
London Design Festival 2012: 100% Norway
100 was a popular number at London Design Festival this year. 100% France showed off new work from its young designers at 100% Design, LDF's answer to New York's ICFF. Meanwhile, across town in Shoreditch, 100% Norway created a special exhibition as part of the design shows at Tent London,...
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By Perrin Drumm - Sep 28, 2012
Last Chance To See "Heatherwick Studio" at V&A
Model of the Olympic cauldron designed by Thomas HeatherwickWith only 48 hours left to see "Heatherwick Studio" at the V&A in London, the fantastic exhibition about the progressive and experimental work by the studio established by architect and designer Thomas Heatherwick, it's not surprising that crowds are packing in to...
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By Perrin Drumm - Sep 28, 2012
London Design Festival 2012: A 'Living' Credenza with a Hidden Plant Feature at 100% Design
At first the O furniture series by British design studio, JiB, appear to be a lovely but more or less conventional console or credenza, but if you stand over them you see a collection of hand crafted ceramic pots nestled in the sunken top, changing the geometry of the pieces...
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By Perrin Drumm - Sep 27, 2012
Waste Not, Want Not: Freyda Sewell Tests the Limits of British Wool at Design Museum London
Akin to MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program, which awards a young or fledgling architecture firm with modest funding to build a summer pavilion in the courtyard at PS1, Design Museum London's Designers in Residence program provides professional and financial support to young designers or design studios "in the often challenging...
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By Perrin Drumm - Sep 27, 2012
London Design Festival 2012: 100% Design - La Boite Concept's Hi-Fi Desk
Four years ago La Boite Concept, the French sound product designer and manufacturer, introduced La Premiere, a hi-fi laptop dock in a tall, standing unit with an overall appearance that can best be compared with an arcade game. Its retro body yet superior acoustics wowed analog fans, but not everyone...
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By Perrin Drumm - Sep 26, 2012
London Design Festival 2012: Tom Dixon On How To Design a Vibrator
To celebrate BE OPEN's Sound Portal installation in Trafalgar Square during London Design Festival and to wax poetic on the nature of sound, Wired Magazine Associate Editor, Tom Cheshire, hosted a panel to discuss the future of sound and how our "sensory systems can help us design more innovative products...
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By Perrin Drumm - Sep 25, 2012
London Design Festival 2012: Swarovski's "Digital Crystal" at Design Museum London
Image courtesy Schon MagazineThough Swarovski may first call to mind bedazzling rather than design, their sponsorship of and collaboration with artists and designers over the past decade have allowed people like Maarten Baas and Paul Cocksedge to work with materials and resources that have "served as an experimental platform for...
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By Perrin Drumm - Sep 21, 2012
London Design Festival 2012: Designjunction
With few exceptions the products on exhibition at Designjunction have already made the rounds in New York and Milan. Some, like the Designers in Residence ICFF award-winning exhibition, "Tools for Everyday Life," are worth a quick revisit. A group of designers working and studying in the open-ended residency at Northumbia...
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By Perrin Drumm - Sep 20, 2012
London Design Festival 2012: Kopiaste
DesignMarketo, who brought popular pop-up bar and exhibition Bar Alto to Milan, asked Ariana Mouyiaris, Founder and Creative Director of Haptic Thought, a visual consulting group, to curate a presentation from their collection for Brompton Design District during London Design Festival. To embody what she calls DesignMarketo's "warm and welcoming"...
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By Perrin Drumm - Sep 20, 2012
London Design Festival 2012: Wonder Cabinets of Europe
Inspired by the cabinets of curiosity, or wonder cabinets that once traveled around Europe as the first iteration of what later become the modern day museum, curators Livia Lauber and Maria Jeglinska invited eight designers from five European countries to create their own personal cabinet of curiosities for the Wonder...
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By Perrin Drumm - Sep 19, 2012
London Design Festival 2012: BE OPEN's Sound Portal
Tourists who crowd in the area between the National Gallery, St. Martin-in-the-Fields church, the two Sir Edwin Lutyens' fountains and the four enormous lions guarding Nelson's Column in that famous plaza known as Trafalgar Square now have something else to feverishly photograph, at least until the end of London Design...
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