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Martin Yeeles, a graphic designer, is this week’s Friday Five subject, and he’s the co-founder and creative director of Boston-based stationery and gift company, Bob’s Your Uncle . He created all of the Bob’s Your Uncle line, which includes boldly contemporary greeting cards, gift wrap, place mats, file folders, dish towels, and more. In 1993, he and his wife, company co-founder and former shoe designer Michele Yeeles, moved to the States from their native England  “just for a year or two,” and never left. In case you’re not familiar with the saying, “Bob’s your uncle” is a British expression used to indicate that a given task is very simple. It was possibly inspired by Victorian Prime Minister, Robert Cecil, who appointed his nephew to a ministerial post

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Friday Five with Martin Yeeles of Bob’s Your Uncle

Beloved designer and ceramicist Eva Zeisel passed away in 2011 at the age of 105, and the last project she worked on was her one and only lighting collection and it has just hit the market. The Eva Zeisel Collection for Leucos is a line of hand-blown Venetian glass fixtures that come in two styles named Summer and Spring , each available as a pendant, wall sconce, or table lamp. Summer Pendant The curvy, organic forms most definitely reflect Zeisel’s signature style and offer a beautiful piece of her lasting legacy. Summer Pendant From Zeisel: “I always like to design at least two shapes together, so that I create a family that relates to each other. These lights are cousins.” Summer Wall Sconce Summer Table Lamp Spring Pendant Spring Wall Sconce Spring Table Lamp Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook .

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Eva Zeisel Lighting Collection for Leucos

One of the highlights of last month’s trip to Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was The Vignelli Center for Design Studies . Melamine dishes for Heller Massimo and Lella Vignelli , who founded Vignelli Associates in the 1970, have designed some of the most iconic graphics, signage, packaging and products known in the world of design. Some are classics, like their Heller melamine dinnerware (pictured above) or their 2003 Heller chair, are well-known by many. Other iconic designs that have become staples in our everyday lives were also designed by the Vignellis

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A Visit to The Vignelli Center for Design Studies at RIT

Designer Paul Nederend has turned his fascination for traditional woodworking into a beautiful new seat called  Chair Pole . The chair’s wooden frame, which is made of European oak, is created with traditional woodworking techniques and the seat is upholstered using a more contemporary fabric – Hallingdal from Kvadrat (1968). I love the hard and soft mixture and the bit of texture in the seat. The rounded stick-like wood legs and armrests are very Scandinavian and remind me of architectural elements found in wooden buildings like cabins.

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Chair Pole by Paul Nederend

Pig on the Wings is a stool that has animal-like feet. They look like webbed duck feet to me, but – hey – pigs will work, too. Designed by Gentle Giants Studio , the stool is an homage to the Traccia Table by Meret Oppenheim . It assembles without using any screws or glue; all parts are wedged together. Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook .

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Pig on the Wings Stool by Gentle Giants Studio

When design is not just good but also clever, I get really excited and that’s just what the No Stereotype Series is. Created by furniture design grad student Dong-yeop Han of South Korea, this collection of furniture has the ability to store your stuff both inside and outside with its elastic bands.

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Furniture Covered in Elastic Bands Holds All Your Stuff

Sometimes a living space just isn’t big enough to fit a desk in it but, boy, it sure is handy to have a workstation sometimes. The Flatmate aims to give you just such a spot without taking up the valuable floor space that most desks do. Designed by Michael Hilgers for Müller Möbelwerkstätten , the slim design barely sticks out from its spot against the wall but gives you plenty of room to attend to all of your desk duties when opened up.

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Flatmate Desk by Michael Hilgers for Müller Möbelwerkstätten

Doll is the new table lamp by French designer Ionna Vautrin for Foscarini where the shape looks like a cross between old oil lamps and those wooden Japanese kokeshi dolls that have skinny bodies and big faces. The bulging shades are made from glass while the narrow bases come in four colors – red, gray, green, and ivory. To help welcome the new Doll lamps to the market, Foscarini has launched a new Facebook app with the help of Hub09 Social Agency called MyDoll , where you can virtually customize your very own lamp. Using a drawing tool, users get to add outfits, hair, faces, and facial expressions that will then be displayed in 3D for you to share. Dress your very own doll here ! Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook

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Doll Table Lamp by Foscarini

Korean designer  Jeong Yong created this perpetual table calendar that’s made of three differently-sized rings. The biggest ring represents the days – the 31 units during which the sun rises and sets. The middle ring, for the months, represents the moon’s orbit around the Earth. And, finally, the smallest ring, with seven units, represents the days of the week, or as the designer says “the people who created the seven days of the week.” Held together with strong magnets, you can join up the month, day and week to keep you on track, but with the added bonus of a cool, desktop sculpture.

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ONE Perpetual Calendar Circles by Jeong Yong

TMU stands for Tie Me Up, a plywood chair designed by Luca Macrì ( LAM ) that you put together yourself. Using cable ties, you put the pieces of the chair together yourself like a giant puzzle. I’ll bet this is much more fun than using an Allen wrench and pictogram directions… Wouldn’t it be fun to have a competition to see who can put it together the fastest? Photos by PEPE fotografia .

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Tie Me Up (TMU) Zip Tie Chair by LAM