I was having a cup of tea with Takashi Okutani in Milan, during the 2005 Salone del Mobile, talking about projects underway with Muji and describing to him the Alessi cutlery project and how I felt that this approach to design, of leaving out the...
Four-legged animals spend their lives in nature, in the midst of, next to, and surrounded by things like trees, rocks, meadows, other animals, etc. For them, things are givens. They do not question or transform their environment. Nor do they manufacture their tools. On the...
(···) The idea behind the collection is to show people the importance of materials like cardboard which until now had never even been seriously considered for the home. Three Little Pigs is a fable on the importance of the materials with which we create our...
[ted id=1243 lang=es] Una historia, una obra de arte, un rostro, un objeto de diseño; ¿Cómo podemos saber que algo es bello? ¿Por qué nos importa tanto? El diseñador Richard Seymour explora nuestra reacción ante la belleza y el poder sorprendente de los objetos que la...
The economic, environmental, societal, biological, political and scientific models which for the past 150 years we have relied upon so heavily to provide structure to our daily lives are increasingly becoming inadequate to deal with the unpredictability and turbulence we are facing in a post-cataclysmic...
¿Qué tendrá el mobiliario de cartón reciclado que fácilmente pasa a ser una pieza de arte postmodernista? ¿Qué tienen en común la lámpara Lumbrera, con la elegancia de un diseño clásico y la eficiencia lumínica contemporánea, y la vibrante silla tipográfica Bold Chair que emocionaría...
(···) La firma valenciana Sanserif Creatius también se dedica en exclusiva a poner en marcha piezas cien por cien sostenibles, a base de mucho diseño y cartón reciclado. Su última aportación se llama Lumbrera. Es una luminaria de mesa con inspiración tipográfica y con una...
[ted id=1158 lang=spa] Con el uso de la robótica, medidores de distancia láser, sistemas de posicionamiento por satélite (GPS) y pequeñas herramientas de retroalimentación, Dennis Hong está haciendo un auto para conductores ciegos. No es "auto-conducido", dice con claridad, sino un coche en el que un...
The tastes and needs of design “consumers” inevitably change with the times. In these turbulent days we often hear talk of a return to basics, to origins, to the classics, to homely materials, to organic forms that remit us to Mother Nature. It seems as...
(···) A 600 square meters local that mixes eclectic references of the major world capitals to accompany the visitor in an unforgettable experience with "tapas" or intimate dinners with flashlights. Món is designed for citizens of the world. A place that reinvents the two heights of...
