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Kerameikos: Paper vessels by Siba Sahabi

Kerameikos is a new paper porcelain collection by designer Siba Sahabi who is inspired by antique Greek ceramics. It comprises of handcrafted, paper-spun vessels, bowls, mugs and vases made from white wallpaper for its strength and light resistance. Check out her Tea Dance tea set

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Rhubarb Lamps by Emma Marga Blanche

Currently on display at the Biologiska Museum is the Rhubarb series of lamps made of folded polypropylene. French-born and Sweden-based designer, Emma Marga Blanche, likens it to an ‘elegant “rhubarb” that grows directly out of earth’. The organic-looking lamps are staged around the Museum’s famous interiors which showcase the fantastic diorama of Sweden’s natural landscape. [...]

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SOFA_XXXX by Yuya Ushida

Taking cues from origami and architectural cable structures, Holland-based designer, Yuya Ushida, created a furniture constructed from 8000 chopsticks that switches from a chair into a couch and vice versa just by the act of pushing and pulling. SOFA_XXXX, as its name implies the cross-cabling system, consists of 4 different lengths of sticks, connective rings [...]

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Q&A with Neo Dia

Hailing from Australia is Neo Dia, a young fashion label helmed by the creative Becky Chua and Gavin Lowes who have drawn Frank Gehry and Bauhaus as their source of inspiration. Sharp, geometric garments with pleated details define their recent collection, and the use of translucent fabric create a layered depth reminiscent of Lyonel Feininger‘s [...]

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BotoxCloud by SAQ & Zirkumflex

I’m currently fighting a head cold but couldn’t resist posting about this pretty cool light installation by Berlin-based SAQ. If you bear with me, I would have to partially rely on the designers’ own account of the project, and will do my best to describe the assembly: SAQ has developed a reactive modular lighting system [...]

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Fold by Riyo Nemeth

Artist Riyo Nemeth created the simple Fold series of black-and-white photocopied prints resulted from folds on paper.

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Ropes by Christian Haas

The Ropes is a series of lamps conceived by Paris-based designer Christian Haas, incorporating energy efficient technology with traditional method of knotting cords. Note: prepare to scrooooll!

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Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

London’s Barbican Art Gallery is currently showing Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion – a survey of avant-garde Japanese garments. Drawing from the 1980s to the present (featuring names such as Junya Watanabe and Yohji Yamamoto), the exhibition explores the unique sensibilities and notions of beauty embedded in Japanese design – with heavy inspirations [...]

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Bidum by Laetitia Florin

Bidum is a series of flexible mesh containers characterized more by motion than by functionality. Designed by Lætitia Florin, a graduate of Switzerland’s ECAL (University of Art & Design Lausanne), the containers are made from thin spring-steel strips sheathed in cotton. The flexible form moves and bounces with the slightest touch but can’t tumble or [...]

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Hypo: spinographic stitch prints

Matt Booth and Peter Crawley created Hypo: hypotrochoid designs generated by adobe flash and stitched on paper. Matt built a small Flash tool which controls the radius and rotation speeds of the circles, with a code to specify colors and line thicknesses. Working like a digital spinograph, the tool performs an animation, and the designs [...]

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Iris van Herpen Haute Couture SS2011

Dutch fashion designer, Iris van Herpen made her debut at the Paris Haute Couture Week, and once again WOW-ed us with her futuristic collection inspired by the sculptures of American artist, Kris Kuksi. Just like her previous spring/summer collection, Iris employed 3D printing technique on her garments with the help of architect Daniel Widrig. Unconventional [...]

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Accordion Cabinet with Wooden Textiles

Recently shown at the IMM Cologne was the Accordion Cabinet – a shelf with flexible skin. The cabinet is the result of a collaboration between designer Elisa Strozyk and artist Sebastian Neeb, and is constructed with a combination of veneer wood and textile with accordion-like folds that can be opened and closed.

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Zip Jacket: a personal device control garment

Designer Jennifer Darmour of electricfoxy recently revealed her latest project: ZIP is a garment that allows you to interact with your music player by using the zipper as a volume control element. Zip your jacket up to raise the volume and protect yourself from the outside world. Unzip to turn the volume down and engage [...]

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Pleat Farm’s Top Picks: Folding Paper Typography

Happy Monday! Featuring: Pleat Farm’s favorite selection of cut and fold-happy paper typefaces for your viewing pleasure.

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Totem: Reflections on the Future of Fashion

As part of the Pitti fashion fairs in Florence, fashion school Polimoda staged a video-photography exhibition of future fashion concepts generated by students in the Fashion Design and Fashion Marketing departments. Aside from video projections, the exhibition showcased nine 4-metre high translucent canvases with images of the “Fashion Totems”: mythological and supernatural beings that abandon [...]

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Wear Out by Carolina Reis

“What if the wearer could become whoever he is without having to choose a certain representation in his outfit? Is it possible to approach fashion design without imposing a certain model to follow?” Wear Out is a response to the notion of discrimination in individuals through the garments they wear. To break free from the [...]

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