Designer Today

I saw old tires turned into flower pots, swings, handbags and clothes futuristic, but I had never seen a tyre become a sinuous sessions with look underground. Re-Tyre, Neozelandese Carl Menary do just that, using a single tyre folded and locked from with a screw bolt that supports him live, with no need to process toxic processing.

Taking into account the burdensome problem of environmental pollution and the necessary re-use of hazardous substances to be eliminated, the industrial designer of Vancouver, has designed a sitting rigid, tough and versatile, perfect for outdoor that adapts well to the interior more daring.

Experiencing with every kind of material, the designer Thai Anon Pariot designer Tripple Cabbage Bone China lamp. The structure of this new series of lamps and suspension from the surface, originates from the leaves of cabbage, meticulously reproduced in porcelain and assembled to illuminate so evocative environments ironic.

New Child is a chair for children conceived by the young Japanese designer Toshimitsu Sasaki. With the many adjustments and some elements removable, this product wood can accompany a child throughout its growth.

Indeed New Children have the opportunity to become high chair, chair (of different heights) and game rocking, solutions that allow him to be a multifunctional object that, although very simple, buys charm when used at various locations.

The Morgen Studio, founded in 1988 by Sabine Mühlbauer and by the artist Thomas Tritsch, works of interior decoration, using skills ranging from architecture design, art crafts. Among the new projects in 2008 is the development of the new hall of Lunge Cocoon Club of Frankfurt.

An area of 550 square meters, characterized by bright pentagonal structures designed by the artist Jörg Obenauer in order to disguise the sound system without affecting the quality dell’acustica. The development consists of several elements of design, chosen from among the most intriguing and functional landscape of interior furniture. Directly from the furniture collection of Morgan Studio, arriving meetings and low tables of oak wood, with rubberized surface and mirror shades.

The tables T-Around the Roses designer Massimo Gardone and Luca Nichetto are Moroso, Barbar stools for the counter of the bar are Arper. The supply of textile Kvadrat, while the mosaic Red Bull is Bisazza. The floor is oak smoked. Every detail was taken care of for harmonize with the new concept of the space, including modern bathrooms and colorful.

The lack of light during the winter months, is probably one of the main reasons that lead many designers Norwegian design luminous objects. In view of the latest proposals of the Northern Lighting, specializing in the production design for lighting, in addition to the lamp Moo-shaped head of elk, does not pass unnoticed the new lamp suspension Scheisse of the young industrial designer Hans Bleken Rud.

Recognizing the right tribute to traditional incandescent bulb, unfortunately, become detrimental to our compromise eco system, the structure of Scheisse is a huge light bulb shattered, immortalized in the explosive phase through support of metal, which releases reflections of light and shadow very exciting. A project nostalgicamente modern, midway between art and design Industriale, stimulated by our need for brightness.

All fans will design an important new appointment to be set on for next autumn, or the week design of Istanbul in Turkey.

After the success of past seasons, the Istanbul Design Week 2008 is proposed as one of the most important events in the Euro-Asian and obtain a consensus even wider for the first time the event will be organized and operated by Design in Turkey, a joint venture between Dream Design Factory (dDf) and DesignPartners, combining vibrant energy of Turkish culture to Italy.

Dream Design Factory (dDf) is a communications company with offices in Istanbul and London specializing in the field of design while dDf is the organizer of historic Istanbul Design Week. The joint venture aims to create a new format, which opens borders, expands, exceeds the boundaries of the territory, along the lines of ZonaTortona Design: Istanbul Design Week 2008 will be a local event with international perspective.

An opportunity for companies to present their products and activities to an international audience, in a modern country with an economy in sharp ascent. Istanbul, a meeting point between different traditions, will be European Capital of Culture in 2010.

The mirror, irresistible icon of the relationship we have with our reflection, it became in the hands of Philippe Starck the ‘vision liquid that opens to the other side’, with the new collection of mirrors Oreille Here Voit designed for the Fasano Hotel Rio . The design of surrealist-shaped ear that characterizes, is proposed by xO coated Silver or black lacquer, in five different formats, 154.5x from 98.9 to 91.5 × 5.2 × 3.7 × 94.7. A new design element to contemplate suggestively, all they see others say.

It’s called Pieces and is the new collection of stools and benches designed by the designer Daniel Enoksson. There are additional furniture from geometric shapes and squared and the perfect mix of materials, so different but at the same time as complementary.

Indeed, in these sessions, along with the preciousness and natural wood to contemporary freshness typical steel el’alternanza color gives a touch of originality truly irresistible.