Extremely colorful and foldable, the cover of German design magazine Novum was inspired by Richard Buckminster Fuller. Created by Hamburg-based agency Paperlux, the geometric cover allows readers to bend and fold the cover any way that they wish. More then 1,000 triangles were die-cut into the surface of the paper – more than 140 die cuts per cover.
Inge Jacobsen cross-stitches over magazines creating a piece of art. She says, “By using intricate and, at times, painstaking technique such as embroidery, I am disrupting the easy consumption of these images. For example I’m in the process of creating a series made up of covers of Vogue magazine that I cross-stitch into. This process makes the covers very tactile and it creates something that is impossible to reproduce on a large scale because each piece is unique and handmade. I feel I have taken it out of circulation and made it something of my own.”
Flex by Ak47 design holds your firewood in the winter and your beach novels in the summer.
Despite its namesake and although it appears flexible, Flex is made from a sheet of hardened steel. It can be changed into varying shapes through changing a series of connecting screws.
Studio Manzano recently launched an online store, and in addition, this new magazine rack called Wall Press. Like their other products it is only one sheet of steel cut in a cool way and bent into shape.
This limited edition USB turntable, with its sharp hipster design, was created exclusively for SPIN magazine and comes with a year’s subscription to the print edition.
made in MIMBRE is a Chilean design firm that creates beautiful, modern wicker home furnishings.
The newest issue of The David Report Trend Report asks us to face a serious design question: Is it time to rethink design?
We are facing a pandemic of “designed stuff” and we have reached a contamination point, a crisis for Design. Why are we not more perturbed and disturbed, why are we so complacent and tolerant? Should we not be calling for a guerrilla war against “designerism,” antiviral campaigns against the design establishment or do we need a revolution to cut the ties with the hero´s of 20th Century Design?
The diagnosis is not making design better, but making design matter!
A very interesting article that asks some truly honest questions. You can read the whole story in the new issue of David Report called “Time to Rethink Design”, written by David Carlson and Brent Richards.
An excerpt:
Designs’ DNA needs to be reconfigured. Rather than continue to focus its attention upon invention, innovation, and enterprise, it should be reconciling the human state and contributing humility, compassion, empathy and beauty. To transcend the norm, and to leave the world a better place than we found it.
Design is no longer about the lifestyle, but the lifecycle. Everything that is man made is designed, so we cannot blame nature for overreacting or the current design aware generation for poor quality. We must orientate our endeavours towards understanding ambiguity and contradiction, embracing diversity over uniformity and identifying inclusiveness, over exclusiveness.
Do you agree?
What do you think about the article?
Weidesign is a new label by Chantal van der Erve (Design Academy) and Rob Groenen, which launched during Dutch Design Week. Based in the Netherlands, Weidesign creates handcrafted modern bags from pure wool felt and vegetable-tanned leather. Their bags are designed to carry the latest and greatest in electronics for contemporary nomads. They’ve also designed a felt basket for holding magazines or newspapers.
I always love to check out what’s new over at CB2, and this time there are some real gems!
1. Parlour Sofa 2. Twiggy Side Table 3. Andes Bed 4. Hopscotch Rug 5. Knitted Pouf, certainly more affordable than the alternative.
