Tag: Designers
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On Knowing The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing: More on Why Things Cost More
Dwell Magazine looks at the issue of why good design costs so much, and is appreciated so little in North America
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Grow Your Own Garden Chair With Chair Farm
German designer Werner Aisslinger's Chair Farm is a "steel corset" that trains plants into chairs.
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Award-Winning Lamp Eliminates Need for Direct Sunlight
The "Daylight" lamp won a Red Dot Design award for the way it amplifies ambient light.
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Your Living Room Furniture Becomes A Home Gym WIth Panorama
Get a Workout While You Watch TV
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Transformer Seesaw Bench For The Kids In All Of Us
Clever design by Dirk Ploos van Amstel turns from bench to teeter-totter, but how easy is it?
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Modular Bookcase Transforms Into Moving Boxes
Sometimes, a simple box can be pretty darned smart. This system of transformer, modular shelving proves the point.
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Zig Zag Chair Is Made Out of Just Three Pieces of Plywood
A very clever way of making plywood bend: A whole lot of cuts.
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Small Gardens have Water Saving Ideas Galore at Chelsea Flower Show
There are several interesting small gardens at the show that are examining the need to conserve water.
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How a Fashion Designer's Food Forest is Changing his L.A. Neighborhood (VIDEO)
Fashion designer Ron Finley set out to build a food forest in a parkway to combat a food desert in L.A.
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Hollow Surfboard Is Made from Broken Skateboards
A Finnish designer has made a working surfboard from broken skateboards.
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Craft for Craft's Sake Means Nothing: The Principles of Deep Craft
One designer argues that the rebirth of making things by hand is in danger of devaluing the craft it sets out to celebrate.
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From A to Zierfische; Obsolete Signs are Being Saved from the Dump at the Buchstabenmuseum in Berlin (Photos)
The Buchstabenmuseum is an NGO dedicated to preserving, restoring and exhibiting old signs from Berlin and around the world. Its owners save obsolete letters from the dump and instead tell their stories. It is a museum like no other!
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Sweeping Up After New York Design Week
It takes a while to absorb everything from New York Design Week; Here are a few more highlights
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Chelsea Flower Show's Winning Gardens are Sustainable and Stunning
It's the 99th year for the mother of all garden shows and many of the winners have an environmental twist to them.
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Blueair Makes The Usually Utilitarian Air Purifier Beautiful
These kinds of things don't have to be ugly.
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It's Palletpalooza at New York Design Week and ICFF
Goodbye shipping containers, hello pallets as the design meme of the moment.
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I'm Keen on Focal Upright Furniture
Shoe designer Martin Keen develops a new form of seating that lets you rock the day job in a posture halfway between standing and seating.
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Mass customization is The Trend of the Year, As Customers Get To Decide What They Want
More and more designers and companies are letting the end user decide what they want their furniture to look like.
