The emerge of 4D printing
3D printing has grown in sophistication since the late 1970s; TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits is shaping the next development, which he calls 4D printing, where the fourth dimension is time.
3D printing has grown in sophistication since the late 1970s; TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits is shaping the next development, which he calls 4D printing, where the fourth dimension is time.
Dezeen Awards is a new annual awards programme. It will identify the world’s best architecture, interiors and design, as well as the studios and the individual architects and designers. The final entry deadline for Dezeen Awards is on 30 June 2018.
You can make a salary. Or you can make a difference. Or you can work as the Director of Materials at Herman Miller and make both.
Carry Stool, designed by Tomoko Azumi and produced by Ishinomaki Lab, is a set of stacking stools, which can be upturned and used as a carrying container or tray.
Hours of meticulous craftsmanship goes into each hand-built Crafter table.
Design concept a small container created using a 3D printer that cuts, stacks and pastes sheets of paper one by one.
Aura is a series of lamps in rolled sheet metal. The mesh of Aura dresses the light bulb with finesse and lightness. Normally destined for office objects this material plays with light in the same way as a delicate lace veil, allowing a diffused lighting.
“Design ideally it’s invisible and you don’t notice, but if it’s done badly you really do notice.”
― Anna Winston
Form Us With Love is looking towards the future, giving their very best to design real change with their global clients, ventures, and civic projects.
A strong industrial furniture design with compelling visual and narrative properties. Kitt ships in a tiny box and is assembled almost without the use of tools.
IBM needs designers and developers ranging from student-designer interns all the way to industry-tested thought leaders. There are 4 primary disciplines within the design practice, so take a peek and find out if the fit is right for you!
Taiwanese designer chia-en lu’s handmade baskets are unique; the 280-years-technique transforms into the modern home accessory for everyday use.
Ever wondered how Arne Jacobsen’s iconic lounge chair is made? Explore the original craftsmanship of cutting, stretching and stitching the Egg™.
A segment of the body has been removed, as if cut away, the physical controls have been nested into this cavity. This protects the controls but allows the user easy access. The camera exhibits a nostalgic aesthetic, interpreted in a contemporary manner. The robust yet soft form is wrapped in leather for a quality, tactile feel.
Layer is the first agency to re-think the generic charity box, creating a powerful tool for fundraising that expresses the values of the Maggie’s brand.
Applications for internships are reviewed continiously throughout the year at Mattias Stenberg studio.
Toto’s desire to appeal to design-conscious buyers led to the creation of a range that is timeless, elegant and pure.
The standard procedure for recruitment is: application review (portfolio, CV), trial period (Tokyo office / three months / fee and transportation will be paid), staff.
Louise Campbell cutlery aims to be beautiful without being pretentious. It refers to the history of Georg Jensen by paying great attention to every tiny detail and respecting basic given proportions, but it is not afraid to emphasise its main purpose – being a useful, flexible, modern toolkit.
The playful personas of the Castiglioni brothers are evident in their Snoopy design, named for the beloved cartoon character and featuring a distinctive, light-hearted shape. The original debuted in 1967, and this version was reintroduced in 2003 with updated technology and produced by Flos.
Powerful on its own, and even more impressive in combination with the range of multiroom speakers from B&O PLAY and Bang & Olufsen, Beoplay M3 is designed by Cecilie Manz delivered a flexible and immersive listening experience in the modern home.
Dieter Rams talks about the ideas behind his system furniture design and about the challenges a younger generation of furniture designers will be confronted with in the future.
In HAY, we value working with graduates – they are ambitious, curious and committed to the challenge. We are continuously looking for talented graduates to assist us with daily tasks and projects.
What’s going on during September around London, Paris, Helsinki, Viena and Valencia?
Introducing the Coconut Cruiseboard, brand new eco-friendly construction series. The natural coconut fibres found on these boards allow them to use less maple wood for an eco-friendly deck that leaves a smaller footprint.
The unique spontaneous shape is made of the same-shaped acrylic resin bottles cast into a single mold; taking out the bottles, one by one, from the injection mold while it is hot; and “dropping” each piece from the ceiling onto the floor.
Dúplex is the first collection by Sancal with the Valencian studio Mut. A small range of occasional tables that have been inspired by the architecture of Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright.
The Wicker bread basket was designed by Cecilie Manz for the Danish manufacturer Muuto. When taking a look at the material though, one could say: Tradition meets Modernity.
Iratzoki Lizaso designed Klik chair for the office chair manufacturer, Sokoa, and intended for use in all the company’s spaces.
In collaboration with Skylar Tibbits’ Self Assembly Lab at MIT, Steelcase has unveiled a new method of 3D printing called “rapid liquid printing”.
The James Dyson Award is an international design award that celebrates, encourages and inspires the next generation of design engineers. The Award is open to current and recent design engineering students.
Exploring the essential of Siya juice brand, Backbone Branding gave it this simple solution for SIS Natural – the natural fruit is right on your glass.
A boxy contemporary on the sloping streets of San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood, reveals his wide-ranging interests and his knack for imbuing everyday items and spaces with beauty and utility in equal measure.
Inspired by the texture left in a yoghurt while eating it with a spoon, the Carved Bowls are a set of solid wood pin trays that combine with different sized concave areas.
Must-attend design, creativity and innovation events in June >
Combining a simple sense of utility with serenity of form, a strip of ash is steamed, stretched out and then reshaped to create HAY’s double hook design.
Radar chair, was a renewed and unforeseen ergonomy office plywood chair, a pure and elegant design combined with a distinctive back that not only gives it an unique character and typology, but also offers additional comfort and a generous sense of shelter.
Kiko Milano selected designer Ross Lovegrove to create a packaging for a collection. With their ergonomic lines, the products are compact and easy to use, designed for what Lovegrove calls “nomadic portability”.
What’s happening in May around New York, London, Amsterdam and Barcelona?
Ott-chil is a type of Korean lacquer technique that is done by adding the secretions of the “Ott” tree, released as a protective response to wounds.
One of Skjold Plast’s core competences is to fold and glue acrylic material. The bright mark is inspired by the wide variety of surfaces and colors you can purchase the folded products in and could in fact be folded in 3D in acrylic. Design by the danish graphic designer Maria Grønlund.
A triangular shape was chosen because it was found that it fitted well in any position: in a corner, or next to a piece of furniture and the layout of holes worked well without taking up much space.
Recently, a new chapter of industrialisation has begun at Kvadrat. By investing in Wooltex, Gaudium and Innvik, three significant European textile suppliers, they have become directly involved in the manufacturing processes of their textiles.
The Avanti Sails consist of a custom 100% Technora fiber loadpath membrane, weighing in 15% under anything else in the marketplace.
Alvaro Catalán de Ocon removes everything superfluous and unnecessary. Reduced to its essential elements: a positive pole, a negative pole and an insulator.
This year’s edition of Core77 Design Awards closes for entries on the 29th of March! Core77 Design Awards celebrates the richness of the design profession and its practitioners. There are 14 categories of entry, providing designers and researchers a unique opportunity to communicate the intent, rigor and passion behind their efforts.
Fully thought out, produced and finalized at Krux Amsterdam, each “Mangos” fruti basket was laser-cut in large plates of colored polyurethane foam and then assembled by hand by François Dumas.
Released in April 2016, Pliè chair was designed by Studio Klass for FIAM Italia. The reference to the modern Milanese architecture of the post-war period, composed by lines and shapes always characterized by a rigorous logic.
New use has been given to this technique of weaving chestnut wood strips (known as ‘zumitzak’ in the Basque language) by assembling them on a tubular metal structure. Thanks to this application, yesterday’s tool has made room for today’s practical objetc Zumitz collection.
Ross Lovegrove was commissioned by Tŷ Nant to create the sensational new Ripple (PET) bottle, boasting a form which was ‘impossible to produce’. Tŷ Nant’s determination and a passion for innovation brought the ground-breaking bottle to life, creating a radical work of art truly evolving the traditional mould and rewriting the rules of bottle design.
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