Spanish company BM makes some of the coolest furniture for babies all the way through young adults. Their original designs are made for all types of young people and will grow with the child through the years until you’re practically married. The pieces have clean, modern lines and can be personalized in the color or colors of their choosing. You can mix and match the pieces depending on the room size and age of the child. All of the designs are contemporary and timeless, easily be transformed into the next stage when your child outgrows it.
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Our most popular Art posts this year tend toward the graphic in style, with clever shout outs to the social media realm as well as references to the historical. We’ve also included the crafty, like the insanely intricate cutting of leaves, the kitschy (hello My Little Pony), and some good, old-fashioned mixed media work. More than anything else, we find it’s a sense of humor that binds them.
The Positive Posters
Bisgràfic studio and The Positive Posters collaborated on a series of prints handsomely broadcasting optimistic phrases that can be downloaded from your own computer. There are iPhone and iPad wallpapers too.
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London-based designer Samuel Wilkinson created an elegant modular desk for London furniture manufacturer Case called Mantis. The desk is made in parts so that the user can decide where the components are to be placed.
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The 64DF is the first of an array of new products coming out in 2012 from New Breed Furniture Network. The company launched a year ago with a full line of made-in-the-USA tables and chairs, known as the Petalply Series. The series is now being expanded to include desks, shelving, dressers, nightstands, media consoles and credenzas.
The 64DF desk speaks the language of cantilevers that make the piece feel light, though it is crafted from solid wood. It’s completely finished all the way around so that it can sit in the middle of the room. I like the way that the file cabinet seems to hang in space.
Snick is a pencil cup by Giha Woo with a special little cubby that looks like a stab wound. Stick your paperclips or usb inside separate from your writing utensils.
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For weeks now I have been searching through business card after business card in pursuit of logo and branding ideas for myself. I believe I have seen every design, font, shape, and trick out there. I have searched high and low to find the best so you don’t have to.
Here are my top 10 favorite designs:
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As part of the DMY 2011 Asia Exhibition tour, which presents innovative German design objects and products at seven different fairs and festivals in Asia, Adam+Harborth will show their Babel paper holder, available in two sizes. The small size is a desktop version, holding small papers, business cards, and other manageable notes. The large Babel can hold newspapers and catalogs, and it can even function as a stool.
West Elm has a new calendar design available that caught my eye – it’s a wooden perpetual calendar, so you can use it year after year.
Editor’s note: Please welcome our new Assistant Editor, Marni Katz of Style Carrot. She’s pretty awesome. Learn more about Marni on our About page.
Korean product designer Giha Woo manipulates colored pencils into structure-like forms called Twisted Pencil. He describes the structures as “pencil vases,” acknowledging its play on words. Because indeed, these open sided vases constructed of bent pencils are only suited to hold pencils, or other similar items. We think they’d make fun building blocks too, as a decorative element on the coffee table.
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