When it comes to fashion, Design Milk looks for products that combine high tech sensibilities with a modern aesthetic. This round-up encompasses the most cutting edge style-related items of the year, including watches made from paper and wood, a pair of shoes not quite made for walking, and of course, laptop accessories. If you’ve got it, flaunt it, we say.
WeWood Wood Watches
These natural wood timepieces are not just sustainable, they’re celebrity magnets. Rhianna, Ke$ha, and APL of the Black Eyed Peas all own one.
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NewspaperWood by Vij5 and Mieke Meijer flips the idea of materials on its head. Instead of using wood as a source to make paper, NewspaperWood uses the paper to make wood! The design was Meijer’s project at the Design Academy Eindhoven, who decided it was time to create something useful from old newspapers that no one wanted.
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Symbiosis II (Log-Fi) are speakers cast from tree logs by Stanley Ruiz in collaboration with Wataru Sakuma of Masaeco. Made of 100% paper pulp, they were developed as an extension of the original Symbiosis speakers presented a the Sounds Like exhibition (2010) curated by Joey Roth.
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OMG Best wrapping paper ever.
Gift Couture is a new company specializing in creative gift wrapping – smart! Their concept is to develop custom wrapping paper through original photography and design, including the creation of coordinating sets like the cheeseburger above. You can pre-order the cheeseburger paper on Kickstarter through a donation.
Oh to be a kid again! How much fun would it be to spell out messages on these Alphabetti Spaghetti placemats?
p.s. milk carton spotting!
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.
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Papernomad is a new company based in Vienna, Austria whose mission is to create items replacing traditional materials with paper. Their first product is an iPad case made of a special paper formulation that is tear- and water-resistant and flame retardant. The great things about these cases is that since they’re made of paper, they’re completely customizable – write, draw, or create whatever you want on the surface
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Wagnalls Wheel, 2010, Altered Set of Encyclopedias
What Brian Dettmer does with books is mind-blowing.
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If you recall, I spotted Paper No. 9 in NYC at Model Citizens 2011 during ICFF. They collaborated with designer Sylvia Heisel on a new garment that looks like a paper bag but is so much more.
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Yes, a paper Audi A7. Well, not life-sized, but the biggest papercraft car model at 4 ft x 2 ft x 2 ft — and it’s anatomically correct right down to the interior.
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