Like a true Brit, Bethan Laura Wood enjoys a good cup of tea. Like a true product designer, she’s obviously spent a lot of time thinking about vessels for drinking tea and rituals surrounding the tradition. The results are a beautiful series of tea cups that caught my eye at last month’s 100% East exhibition […]
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The flowing ghost shape may be the most emblematic of Halloween. (Does it get any simpler than a sheet with holes?) Some of our favorite artists and designers have embraced the classic silhouette and created a few non-traditional ghosts to help celebrate the macabre holiday.
The new offbeat book on entertaining by Amy Sedaris, I […]
Blik, makers of the
Space Invaders Wall Decals featured on CH in 2004, have recently announced their foray into the world of automobile customization. After realizing that “there’s only so much you can do with Calvin, surfboards,
and Hawaiian flowers” the decal innovators created Blik Autographic, 12 body graphics and six window graphics to […]
Like Brooklyn designer Alexander Reh’s Fully Loaded chair made from shotgun shells, his new Deflower Vase is a clever and slightly subversive use of everyday objects. Where the chair adds an element of violence to a piece of furniture, the vase introduces a little something different, reinventing the condom by using it to sheath a […]
This 1958 short film, sponsored at the time by Chevrolet, was a tribute to men and women who design in America. It offers an extensive glimpse of architecture, interiors, furniture, product and technology that is iconic 1950s. Watch here and see how much has changed and how much has stayed the same.
Thanks, Greg.
TAGS: 50s, […]
Inspired by old crime TV, the Drop Dead Rug prototype by British designer Alex Carpenter was such a hit at the London Design Festival in 2005 that Alex will take it into production soon. Mimicking the shape “of an unfortunate soul which may have come to pass right there on your living room floor with […]
Clothing That Arranges the Body is British industrial designer Hannah Perner-Wilson’s attempt to reconcile with our attachments to gadgets, calling attention to the way our minds and bodies relate to electronic devices. “I find myself drawn towards the ways in which objects, whether of material nature or data, convey their content,” she says. […]
An attractive container for shoes and other miscellanea, The Hotel Box from Pure Nomade is a storage solution that you don’t have to hide in the closet. Designed by Danish industrial designers Lilian Adler and Soren Berg to function as both a box and a piece of furniture, the Hotel box can be stacked […]
Wallpaper trends wax and wane, but in the end it’s still just eye candy. These three new takes on wall coverings grabbed our attention recently at an exhibit during the London Design Festival called “In Production” for the ways they add new dimensions-both literally and figuratively. Susan Bradley’s multi-purpose Outdoor Wallpaper (pictured left) is a […]
100% Design, the London design fest’s main event, usually focuses on the slick and often boring end of the market, but this year these three lamps stood out from the crowd for their beautifully simple organic forms.
An English husband-and-wife partnership, Jason and Lucy Boatswain design and produce translucent porcelain lighting under their label Diffuse. Their […]