Though we blossom from past experiences and we are living in the present, we were asked to give our opinion about the future of design. In itself, this already seems to reflect an essence of what design is. A continuous evolution, developing by looking at...
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...
(···) 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...
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...
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...
As Mahatma Gandhi said, To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. I respect standing up for what you believe in. I like the idea of friendship and extending trust to everyone you meet. This article describes how life, people and ecodesign...
One of the main features of present-day design is the diversity of simultaneously coexisting aesthetics reviving styles that originally made their mark in such key periods as the 1950s, 1970s or 1990s through the use of the graphic resources in force at those times. Each designer...
Sublime · October, 2011 Hiatus came into being as a guide for entrepreneurs and designers on how to improve the ecological efficiency of their communication and their products. The central message is that designers have a significant role to play in steering us towards the sustainable...
Paper-made Life· septiembre de 2011 Las Mesas Mustafá y Duduá, que se puede convertir en librería o banco corrido, según el uso que se quiera dar de ella han conquistado a los editores del mercado chino, prueba de ello es su aparición en Paper-Madre Life,...
El chef del restaurante Cuina al Quadrat, Sergio Mohedano; y la diseñadora Ana Yago se han unido para crear un menú especial que convierte a creativos internacionales en recetas elaboradas con productos tradicionales que se podrán degustar durante la semana de la Feria Hábitat Valencia, entre el...
