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February 2nd, 2013 — Design
I am really loving these colorful, geometric tea towels by Studio Mae Engelgeer . They are a mixture of cotton, linen and acrylic. Buy them at Wannekes or find a list of retailers on the Studio Mae Engelgeer website . Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook
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Colorful Geometric Tea Towels by Studio Mae Engelgeer
February 2nd, 2013 — Design
It’s up north to Canada for this week’s Friday Five , spotlighting designer Lukas Peet , who grew up in the small town of Canmore, Alberta, situated in the heart of the Rocky Mountains (an hour west of Calgary). Peet opened his studio, Lukas Peet Design in Vancouver in 2009, after returning from four years in the Netherlands where he studied industrial design at Design Academy Eindhoven. Peet’s first product was a series of three lights called the “Rudi” for the New York based lighting company Roll & Hill, which was launched in April in Milan during the Salone followed by the North American Launch in May during the ICFF in New York.
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Friday Five with Lukas Peet
February 1st, 2013 — Design
Soft, fluffy clouds look like a nice place to relax, yes? While not your traditional 2- or 3-cushion sofa, CIRRUS is full of curved shapes resembling a whimsical seating option in your living room instead of up in the sky. The DIZAJNO sofa allows for a variety of sitting and lounging positions in hopes of letting you feel what it’s like to lay on a cloud. It’s built with a traditional, rigid OSB frame with a spring system in the back and seat areas, all topped with a flexible PUR foam that will give you a lifetime of heavenly rest. The Lubo Majer designed line is available in two sofas, a chair, and two table options
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Lounge on a Cloud: CIRRUS Seating by DIZAJNO
February 1st, 2013 — Design
What do you do if your cousin is on a mission to take a community of 700 people living on the streets in Mumbai India, and turn them from “very poor” to “middle class” in just eight years? If you’re Pepe Heykoop , you set about designing products that they can make and teaching them the skills required to make them, providing them with the income they need to escape abject poverty. It was an honor to meet him at IMM Cologne . He was showcasing two products; the Leather Lampshade and the Paper Vase cover – which uses simple folding techniques to provide a decorative cover for bottles which are thrown away all over India, turning them into something useful. Pepe’s cousin is Laurien Meuter, founder of The Tiny Miracles Foundation , an organization which believes they can make the world a better place, but that in order to do so, they need focus.
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Design for Good: Pepe Heykoop and the Tiny Miracles Foundation
January 31st, 2013 — Design
simplehuman is a California-based company that produces top-notch household products that they call “tools for efficient living.” The line is made to make your life easier and with touch-free sensor soap pumps (goodbye germs!) and trash cans with lids that open with the wave of a hand, you’ll never look back. While widely known for their stainless steel trash cans, their simple design principles have spread through the kitchen with dish drains, canisters, and paper towel holders, all the way to the bathroom with shower caddies, plungers, and hampers.
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Deconstruction: simplehuman Sensor Mirror
January 31st, 2013 — Design
One of my favorite pieces in the D3 Design Talents exhibition at IMM Cologne was Dear Disaster by Jenny Ekdahl . Dear Disaster was Jenny’s graduation project from the Lund School of Industrial Design in Sweden. Inspired by recent global events, she says: “While natural disasters are perceived as terrible occurrences, natural forces can also be viewed as awe-inspiring and magnificent.” The aim of the project was to facilitate a process of recovery after natural disasters, to help the user regain their trust in nature
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Dear Disaster by Jenny Ekdahl
January 30th, 2013 — Design
Who said you had to have a garden or room for planters to have some greenery? The new Living Table by Habitat Horticulture solves the problem of adding greenery to your home without the need for a garden, balcony, or even wall space! Each Living Table is handmade in their San Francisco-area headquarters using 3/8 inch-thick tempered glass that can handle a 180 lb load per square foot and your choice of color, wood finish and even which plants you’d like added. Custom shapes are available on request. The Living Table is virtually maintenance free – just set a reminder about once a month for watering and it will stay green year-round. Pretty cool idea! Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook .
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Fill Your Home With Greenery With The Living Table
January 30th, 2013 — Design
“I have an idea. You take any chair, with four legs and saw it into four equally-sized pieces. The resulting 1/4-chairparts will be added to four place-keeper-chairs wich lack the corresponding piece. The resulting new four complete chairs enrich themselves of the value and design of the original chair which has undergone some kind of cell division.” So begins Julian Sterz’s ”Diploma Thesis on the Topic Place-Keeper,” an investigation into identity and archetypes
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The 3/4 Place Keeper Chair by Julian Sterz
January 29th, 2013 — Design
Bellila is a brand new furniture company that’s exclusively made in France and headed up by designer Paul Bellila and entrepreneur Julien Bitan. Made from ecologically managed French forests, the customizable tables allow you to create your own garden right in your coffee or console tables, whether it be a vegetable or herb garden, a Zen garden, or one with basic flowers or plants, it’s completely up to you. Volcane (first image also) appears to be a solid coffee table but you can actually use the base for storage.
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Tables with Built-In Planters by Bellila
January 29th, 2013 — Design
Pendulum clocks are traditionally of the, well, traditional sort housed in grandfather clocks and the like, but not anymore. Christian Kim has reinterpreted the classic pendulum clock with ZWILLING , a modernized, wall-mounted version. Both the clock face and the pendulum are the same size making the overall form a simple, minimalist design. The long pendulum swings from left to right within one second due to the magnetic pulse that allows it to keep time.
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Modern Pendulum Clock: ZWILLING by Christian Kim