Entries Tagged 'Design' ↓

This month’s  Design Store(y)  is a tale of how a design-minded woman, Sakiko Ichihara, who originally moved to Toronto to attend university, translated her love of her native culture into a business. Her boutique, Cubeshops , tucked away amid restaurants in downtown Toronto, carries Japanese design objects, gifts, stationary, pens, and the like. It’s a great blend of daily use, practical products and fun, design-y stuff you just want

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Design Store(y): Cubeshops

Bulb Fiction is a minimalist lighting fixture created by Scandinavian-based designer KiBiSi . The firm is now considered one of the most reputable design companies in Scandinavia.

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Skim Milk: Bulb Fiction by KiBiSi

Today’s  Friday Five  features Matt Eastvold of  Eastvold Furniture , who started woodworking and welding at young age in his dad’s shop. He grew up on a farm in southern Minnesota, which fostered his passion for learning these trades. Eventually he headed to the city, in the thriving design community of Minneapolis, where he worked with a number of designers and architects on custom  projects. Today he lives in a small college  town in Minnesota called Northfield, where he and his wife Amanda grow their own food, kids, and a company that builds honest and sturdy furniture

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Friday Five with Matt Eastvold

Brazilian designer Roberta Rampazzo is back with a new table that plays around with perspective. The Illusion Side Table is the result of studying the feet of tables and working with the angles of the legs. By angling two of the legs, the table remains stable but it changes the look completely

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Illusion Table by Roberta Rampazzo

For this week’s  CMYLK  we’ve created a Colourlovers  palette of classic autumnal hues, inspired by the Jewish Holidays. There’s Rosh Hashana, during which one dips apples in honey for a sweet New Year, and also Sukkot, which celebrates the harvest. So although the leaves may not be turning just yet, fall is in the air.

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CMYLK: Apples and Honey – A Fall Harvest Color Palette

YLiving sent me an Urbio modular wall storage unit called the Big Happy Family . Mr. Design Milk and I installed it a few weeks ago in our kitchen . It’s so easy to install! Here’s how it’s done

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How to Install an Urbio Wall Garden/Storage, or The Easiest Thing I’ve Ever Done

Joint Perspectives , a young design studio based in London formed by María Meller and Mirja Sick, recently completed a sideboard using discarded pieces of materials. Using copper and oak, the irregularity of the pieces, which were laid side by side to create the design, has an intense visual impact. The pieces of copper and oak are in different stages of their lives – from old weathered oak is matched up with sheets of copper left outside for a month.

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Oak and Copper Sideboard Made from Scrap Material by Joint Perspectives

Based in Austin, Texas, the design studio LEBORED is run by Alex Shilin and Jennifer Eshelman. They create unique objects in limited editions and currently they have a series of wood vessels that are pretty sweet. Some of the vessels have feet and some don’t, some are hand painted while others are stained. Each one is unique and sealed on the inside to protect the wood from water in case you use yours as a vase. Each month the duo goes to town on a new idea or theme and sets out to create a collection, never really knowing where the idea will take them.

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LEBORED Limited Edition Wood Vases

I’m usually not a huge fan of reworking the classics, but I kind of like these Amateur Masters Chairs by Jerszy Seymour for Ngispen . The classic modernist forms are reimagined using a hand-molded production technique from polycaprolactone wax.

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Amateur Masters Chair by Jerszy Seymour for Ngispen

Big Hands I know you’re the one! The Big Hands Clock by Yenwen Tseng is a wall clock with the intention of exploring the perception of time. By adjusting the proportion and relative position of normal clock hands, hour and minute, the two hands interact inseparably and show various expressions of time at every moment. The Big Hands Clock will be exhibited at the Fresh Taiwan exhibition at Tent London .

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Big Hands Clock by Yenwen Tseng