The New York-based industrial designer and RISD graduate, Louie Rigano is well on his way to taking over the design world. Not only does he create well designed and aesthetically pleasing things, he also puts a lot of thought behind his work and concepts.
LIGHT_NESS is a lighting concept by Amsterdam-based company UXUS that is an interactive project that puts the end user in control of the design.
Paris-based designer Patrick Norguet has been put at the helm to design McDonald’s restaurants throughout France. The idea behind the redesign is for the brand to get back to family-based fast food dining instead of the image that it had become over the years as a teenage hangout.
The Bone Chair by JDS Architects is more a dissection of a chair than the creation of one.
Index is a project that Karim Charlebois-Zariffa created back in 2008 in which he photographed everything he owned, arranged neatly, and created a 32-page book out of it.
Nervous System has officially released their Reaction cups and plates along with accompanying lamps. Inspired by the individual patterns created on the surfaces of animals like frogs and fish, the housewares line follows on the heels of their first line of lighting and trivets released earlier this year. Learn more about the products and their inspiration here.
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Netherlands-based concept designer Marcia Nolte has created the Corpus series of concepts based on the idea that humans could evolve and adapt to modern fashion and technology in a physical manner.
In her latest series, Corpus 2.1, she created four portraits whose physical appearance has been transformed to integrate technology. Above, a QR code is like a birthmark on the skin.
When I was little I used to pop the heads off of my Barbies. I also used to cut their hair short and give them mustaches, but that’s a whole other story… Margaux Lange also decapitates (and dismembers) Barbies, but she uses the doll parts to create surprisingly beautiful and artistic jewelry.
