Design Month 2017 is coming, a month when we dedicate ourselves to everything beautiful in the field of design, home, design and creation. This year it will take place between October 17 and November 17, and the leading theme will be progress.
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The Swiss company Freitag Zippelin makes our trips more comfortable. No, they are not a travel agency, they are not a hotel chain, but they have been making travel bags from recycled materials for 24 years. But now they have come up with an idea that we have never seen before. They're launching it on Kickstarter, and we got a peek at what it's like.
At this year's Paris design fair Maison & Objet, Japanese artist Yukiko Morita presented her latest innovative product, Pampshade, a handmade lamp made of real bread.
Why not make exercise fun and motivationally different. ONNIT answered this question with themed fitness tools inspired by the Star Wars saga.
"That's light blue!" "No, it's gray if I tell you!". This is how a conversation can go between two designers, photographers or elementary school students, it doesn't matter. Differentiating colors is often difficult, and if your work involves this, it may be better to leave the decision to a professional. And even if it's the size of a golf ball.
Designer mistakes can sometimes be fatal to a product's success. But if we laugh heartily with them, we won't blame them.
American artist James Turrell deals with light and space. He has been inspiring us with his works of art for more than half a century. He says: ''My works are your vision and not so much mine, although your vision is the fruit of mine.''
"It's important to participate, not to win!" Well, yes. Anyway. The Olympic Games are considered the biggest and most important sporting event in the world and for many athletes they represent the pinnacle of their careers. Of course, there are also sports industries that have other, more important events. But none, except OI, date back to about 2,800 years ago. Paris is in the running to host the 2024 Games and special awards have been prepared to mark the occasion.
Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan, is preparing for the 29th Summer Universiade. To get people ready and excited for what's happening in the city, subways have been transformed into shockingly realistic simulations of sports venues.
Denny R. Priyatna is an Indonesian designer who prefers to explore the connection between the human and the inanimate. He plays with different materials and techniques all the time, creating new things. Always with a concept. This time he tackled furniture. Maybe the collection will seem "over the edge" to some, but it doesn't know any other way. Furniture that shows the imperfections of the human body is absolutely fantastic. Or cringe-inducing.
We love recycled. Just because of the good feeling, because we contribute to a cleaner environment. After all, such things also look great, especially furniture. What about plastic, do we like it? If the answer to some is no, that may change now. The Dutch designer Ulrike Jurklies found a way to make a tea table out of recycled plastic.
Oerol, which translates to "everywhere", is a 10-day festival of all genres of art that takes place every June for free on the island of Terschelling in the Netherlands. The wish of the festival organizers is to turn the entire island into a stage. At this year's festival, it was possible to see a very special architectural structure in which the cultural program took place.