Glasgow unveils a new Mackintosh exhibit
Railway Terminus Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh has done it all – watercolours, decorative glass, furniture design and buildings. His most famous structure is the Glasgow School of Art completed in 1909. His tall, straight back chairs are icons too, part of an exaggerated angular aesthetic he applied to interior design. He’s [...]
Floating dreams in a wildly spinning world: Paintings by artist Lynn Sivanand
In paintings by Artist Lynn Sivanand, elements merge with the mysterious logic of a dream. Images hover and appear to dissolve in pools of saturated colour. There is myth and memory: An orange grove, a deep sea dive, unfinished structures, swirling fog, the minarets of a mosque. Contrasting landscapes provide a rich blend of sensibilities. Lynn’s canvases are colour fields suggestive [...]
Eco-friendly planter made from used coffee grounds
While recycling has become an integral part in the lives of urban dwellers, there is still an absence of recycling organic waste in bigger cities. This might sound like an ‘obsessiveness towards recycling’, but designer Matthew Waldman of Nooka decided to go an extra mile to make a difference. He saved up his used ground coffee [...]
Form meets function: Clip Bag by designer Peter Bristol
Form meets function: Clip Bag by designer Peter Bristol Designed by Seattle based designer Peter Bristol, the Clip Bag is an ironic and playful office bag created from the over sizing of an ordinary black office paper-clip. The bag is constructed from simple materials like wool felt and aluminium tubing. The interesting part about Bristol’s work is his [...]
Atira builds Canada’s first container housing complex
Atira builds Canada’s first container housing complex Builders love old shipping containers. Structurally sound, if not a little ugly, they can be turned into instant structures. Drive-through banks or coffee kiosks come to mind. They’ve even been turned into single family homes. Now, a Vancouver non-profit is going one step further, creating Canada’s first multi-unit housing complex [...]
Karim Rashid’s Nafir lighting design for Axo light at nhow Milan
Karim Rashid’s Nafir lighting design for Axo light at nhow Milan nhow Milan, a design hotel from the NH Hoteles chain, was presented at the recent Milan Design Week with an exclusively restyled bar area by designer Karim Rashid, who based the lighting project around Nafir, the suspension lamp designed by himself for Axo Light. With this [...]
Artists in residence at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai
Through their artist residency project, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai provides an unique opportunity to young artists to travel to Shanghai and explore the contemporary art scene, magnificent ateliers, theatres galleries and museums that light up the city, transforming Shanghai into an avant-garde experiment in imagining the future. While the Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist [...]
Sandwich bike by Dutch design studio Bleijh
Sandwich Bike by Dutch Design Studio Bleijh Conceptualized seven years ago by Dutch design studio Bleijh, the Sandwich Bike is finally out in to the markets. Instead of using a regular welded frame, this unconventional design consists of a frame which is made out of two pieces of pressed plywood connected together using ‘smart cylinders’, [...]
$ 1 million laptop by London based luxury manufacturer Luvaglio
$ 1 million laptop by London based luxury manufacturer Luvaglio While more and more people these days are becoming tech savvier and are constantly upgrading their gadgets, be it, a cell phone or a laptop to catch up with the better than the best technology has to offer, there is an altogether different category of people who [...]
iPhone Mashup Shoe by designer Alan Nguyen
iPhone Mashup Shoe by designer Alan Nguyen Designed by Alan Nguyen, the iPhone Mashup Shoe is an attempt to combine art, fashion and product design with 3D printing technology. This pair of 3D printed platform heels comes with a holster on the side to hold an iPhone. The design was commissioned by Dutch 3D printing house, [...]
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