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The Snail
Design: Peter Alwin
Winner of the Electrolux Design Lab 2010; pocket-sized nomadic device that instantly attaches to any cooking vessel, heating the contents through magnetic induction.
Cold Cuts
Design: Laurence Brabant
Spoons made from recycled wine and beer bottles.
Faces
Design: Maxjenny Forslund
Rain cape made from a synthetic fibre based on recycled PET bottles.
Cavalier
Design: az&mut
Can be installed directly on a balcony railing; produced in France with 70% flax.
Blow
Inflatable sofa made of recycled paper.
Design: Agata Kulik & Pawel Pomorski
Belgium Hat
A two-sided hat with a Flanders and a Wallonia side that can be worn both ways.
Design: COMPANY, manufactured by Derbysport in Nazareth, Belgium; material: 100% wool. As seen at COMPANY's (Aamu Song & Johan Olin) touring frietkot exhibition and at the Ditto Gallery, Brussels in the 'Finland ...
We Make Carpets
From pasta to balloons, the 'we make carpets' project takes everyday products and materials and frames them within traditional carpet symmetry. Created by designers Stijn van der Vleuten and and Marcia Nolte and visual artist Bob Waardenburg, the trio were connected by the instantaneous ...
Wheel of Nutrition
Are you eating right? Or left and centre as well? If you need to read your meal a little more closely this ceramic dining plate offers a simple service. Coming in three different versions - Diet, Extra ordinary and Supersize - its explanatory graphics correspond to varying percentages of ...
Fehling & Peiz
15 - 18 May, ICFF, New York
Yvonne Fehling & Jennie Peiz's Hockerbank seating is one of the featured objects in Design Germany 2010, the German Design Council's touring exhibition that has moved on from Milan and will shortly open at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). Alongside nearly 100 new products ...
COLLECT 2010
Designers Guild store window, Kings Road, London, until 18 May
In its second year at the Saatchi Gallery in London, alongside the main COLLECT 2010 contemporary craft fair (14- 17 May) is a Trail that sees the works of seven emerging artists feature in the store windows of Designers Guild, Cath Kidston, David Mellor, Osborne & Little and TASCHEN.
Art Bollart
Shangahi, China - and Antwerp, Belgium
Mooring posts, bollards, whatever your urban language the presence or absence of this object makes a perceptible impact on the cityscape. Bollart, a project initiated by Belgian sculptor and designer Patrick Villas reinterprets the pleasure of sitting on the dock of the bay, with a direct ...
Bram Boo's Still Life
Ventura Lambrate
Not your average workplace materials, Belgian designer Bram Boo's ''still life' of a desk' was realised in polished copper and wood. 'Using the silent beauty of archetypal office items and translating them into storage', the resulting objects sought to transform their regular ...
True Stories
Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan
‘In collaboration with Lamborghini’ must have been sweet music to students attending Milan’s Scuola Politecnica di Design Master’s Programme in Transportation Design. Sunday at the Race, which lined up 11 models of new Lamborghini supercars on a rollercoaster, was one of four scenarios that ...
Aldo Bakker
Ventura Lambrate
Accompanied by pieces from his Urushi series, Aldo Bakker continues his relationship with Japanese varnish. The show was presented by the Amsterdam-based Particles Gallery.