La scelta del colore in un progetto di design è quasi sempre tenuta come ultima fase, come coda di un processo che oramai è concluso e che ha solo bisogno di “mostrarsi”. Così l’aspetto cromatico viene considerato al pari della cosmesi, come un deposito superficiale di materia di cui vengono snobbate le conseguenze, sicuri che …
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Siamo poco abituati alle stranezze nel mondo degli oggetti quotidiani, il nostro occhio e la nostra mente si abituano alla contemporaneità adattandosi ad essa, si adattano ai canoni estetici e si evolvono insieme a loro e l’innovazione formale vive su schemi che in un certo senso ci aspettiamo. Ci sono tuttavia dei progettisti che riescono …
Have you ever thought what would you do with 7 tiny boxes? Me neither. Until I found these cute little boxes in different sizes and colors from the French design studio ¿adónde?. They’re made out of 100% recycled cardboard and come in 10 different colors. If you should ask, they serve multiple purposes: desk organizers, …
While most of the cosmetics brands try to do their make-up range as cute and girlie as possible, the Swiss brand ASCHEN AND VOSS is going into the opposite direction. Their clean, minimal and geometric line is clearly intended to a more sophisticated consumer and was inspired by the clinical heritage of Switzerland. Pure package …
I really hope I won’t be needing this any time soon, but if I were to make it alive out of a, let’s say, near-death cooking accident, this would be my go-to first aid kit. BEST MADE’s All-Purpose First Aid Kit is a very stylish solution to the dull and boring everyday kits and it …
If you’re planning to impress your dinner guests, a tableware piece from Dutch designer Aldo Bakker should definitely do the trick. Apart from their obvious aesthetic role, they seem pretty functional too.
Interview with Laura Pregger, class of ’84, the Basel-based designer recently awarded at the design trade show Blickfang 2010. Laura’s production really stands out from others: she works with ceramic combining, altering and mixing shapes and function.Results are surprisingly new: serial one-offs, as she uses to define them. P Laura, first of all Polkadot wants …