Sottovoce by Huub Ubbens

Sottovoce by Huub Ubbens is currently on display inside the Public Gardens Indro Montanelli during the LED Light Exhibition Design 2010, Milan through January 10, 2011.

Sottovoce by Huub Ubbens is currently on display inside the Public Gardens Indro Montanelli during the LED Light Exhibition Design 2010, Milan through January 10, 2011.

Japanese designer and artist Yukihiro Kaneuchi has created a tiny landscape in a coffee cup.

Illusions of a Small World, an exhibition by KNOL, was a project inspired by The Metamorphosis of Franz Kafka. Exposed during Dutch Design Week 2010, Illusions of a Small World was a combination of the live installation with hundreds of real insects (grasshoppers, crickets, cockroaches, worms etc.) and the corresponding kitchen where the insects were transformed into tasty treats. KNOL says “we dared the visitors to taste and think about this food as a new possibility for the near future.”

Commute Home is an interdisciplinary design studio located in Toronto. They’ve just exanded into a brand new space, which will hopefully offer a fresh perspective. Let’s hope that this new space inspires principal designers Hamid Samad and Sara Parissoto to create even more amazing designs.

Phu Hoang Office and Rachely Rotem Studio have completed an amazing installation called the Exhale pavilion for Art Basel Miami Beach 2010.

FARM completed The Tree sculpture, which recently won the Singapore President Design Award 2010 for Design of the Year. The National Museum of Singapore approached FARM to “create something delightful” for the Night Festival in 2009. Inspired by the Banyan Tree, the modern sculpture also featured LED lights bringing the “tree” to life in the evening.

Carnovsky is a Milan-based collective comprised of Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla. Their current RGB exhibition is on currently running at Johanssen Gallery at Direktorenhaus in Berlin. The show runs through February 10, 2011.
The artists explain the RGB explores the “surface’s deepness” and the designs create surfaces that mutate and interact with different chromatic stimulus. See the photos below to see this in action.

Hope Tree, an installation piece by 24° Studio, was exhibited at Tokyo Designers Week 2010. 24° Studio was one of the winners of Environmental Container Design & Art Competition sponsored by the Design Association NPO and Dezeen.

Yes, I spelled love like that because I’m talking about the LLOVE Hotel. LLOVE is an exhibition consisting of a hotel with guest rooms created by Dutch and Japanese designers to celebrate 400 years of trade and cultural relations between Japan and the Netherlands. However, this is much more than just an exhibition — you can actually stay in the rooms! And, they also created a shop and a cafe. Doesn’t look like too much from the outside, but wait until you see these rooms!