The first designboom mart to be held in Australia took place at the Powerhouse Museum during Sydney Design 08 under the banner of Young Blood Designers Market. This section of any design show is always crowded and you can hear
California collective Molla Space had a nifty display of works by Nobuhiro Sato of Kyoto-based studio Pull+Push. Sato puts his background in cement modelmaking—and his abiding interest in architecture—to good use in his clever designs, which include sculptural concrete vases,
Donald Corey hooked us up with more coverage from the Workshopped exhibition during Sydney Design 08 with photos by Blue Murder Studios. Featured designs included jewellery and accessories as well as furniture and lighting, so a wide variety of fresh
In the jam-packed booth of quirky housewares company 2Jane—which reps U.K. designers like Mibo, Mixco, and Emma Jeffs in the U.S.—we discovered this simple-but-brilliant design: Mibo's 15-cm-square tile tattoos. The stick-on vinyl decals are easy to apply and waterproof once
Australian designer John Van Den Nieuwenhuizen, now based in San Francisco, sums up the intuitive nature of his Hidden Radio: "The product attempts to be silent both visually and functionally by having the cap in the downward position. By lifting
Last week we braved the New York Gift Fair, which turned up a number of great discoveries. Among our top picks was Teroforma, a just-launched, Connecticut-based manufacturer of sleek modern tableware headed up by husband-wife team Andrew and Anna Hellman.
Swedish graphic design studio Dizel&Sate have used a tri-colour palette on an innocent white background for their new lighting collection, a tribute to the fashion capital of Paris. "Wayfarers, art deco, Kate Moss, the 1950s, black humour, modern architecture and
is a simple, yet elegant, cremation coffin of corrugated cardboard, papier-mâché and wood that is budget-friendly and easily burnable. A sandglass-shaped urn of stainless steel sits on top and when it goes through the cremation process, it acquires a patina
Workshopped, a key player on the Australian design scene, aims to identify Australian design and call attention to it on a national and international level. The Workshopped exhibition is one of the main events during Sydney Design 08 and features
table lamp by AnAtomic Factory with illustrations by Bombo is a follow-up to the earlier Long Life Light. When the Milk Gone Bad light is off, it resembles a simple white milk carton. When switched on, the light reveals the
Noriko Hashida designs the Bew kitchen tray for I'mD.+ MUJI introduces a three-storey narrow version of its "Ki no Ie" pre-fab home.+ The "Good Design Expo 2008," previewing all this year's nominated products for the annual Good Design Award, takes
is underway in Australia and Donald Corey from The Other Edge is keeping us in the loop. From themes like "Design Matters" to "Young Blood," this Powerhouse Museum-based festival of design is a 17-day program of design down under, including
Time Capsule 2008- 2158 is an exhibition taking place at Sydney's Beautiful On The Inside as part of Sydney Design 08. Seven Australian designers were invited to create work suitable for a time capsule that will be opened up 150
book, this should be good (as of this writing it's not yet released). See the slideshow on the Daab website for sample pages. Jewelry Design features contemporary jewelry designers from all around the world, the "book is an extensive presentation
This week's MoCo picks, Summer pool edition.+ Norisada Maeda's "MACHINE HEAD -UNSUI" house in Kanagawa, Japan at architecturephoto.net. Via Dezain.+ JM Architecture's Dolomites House at Arch Daily, "A wood deck made of 14cm wide Ipe wood planks surrounds the house,
Lively patterns sometimes take the stage and add colour to Christian Vincent's narrative.Sven Kroner's paintings may seem soft in tone, but this artist uses brilliant splashes of colour.Buff Monster's use of happy creatures and a liberal dose of pink can
Jo Meesters transforms materials like pottery, paper and wood in some way so as to provide a surprise ending. Traditional Delft Blue scenes are scraped away to leave a contemporary landscape. Discarded paper is used to create vessels that are
