Stinessen Arkitektur have designed a group of huts as part of the Manshausen Island Resort, that specializes in adventure and exploration off the coast of Northern Norway.
Photography by Siggen Stinessen. More CONTEMPORIST.
Holiday huts in Norway
November 2015
Through the window by Aldana Ferrer Garcia
Aldana Ferrer Garcia’s window module offers ‘more sky’ to city dwellers.
Among the host of creative initiatives presented at the inaugural dubai design week, the ‘global grad show’ is a truly unprecedented platform to see the most innovative projects from the world’s leading design schools under one roof.the expansive exhibition, curated by brendan mcgetrick, is housed within the dubai design district, spotlighting 50 projects from 10 universities under 6 themes: construction, health, home, memory, play and work.
Article from DESIGNBOOM.
Get It Right – Catz ‘n Dogz
Music? Why not from Poland – Catz ‘n Dogz.
Notebook with removable magnetic pages
The California design team from Rekonect have launched their first product, a notebook that has a magnetic spine and pages, making it easy to remove the pages and add them back in whenever you want to.
Watch the video below to see it in action, or visit their campaign on Kickstarter, for more information.
Bulging glass lamp
Italian lighting manufactuer Pallucco, have shared a video showing how their hand-blown glass ‘Egg’ lamp, designed by Enrico Franzolini, is made.
More CONTEMPORAIST.
Crystal umbrella by Samuel Wilkinson
This umbrella-shaped street lamp by London designer Samuel Wilkinson has a crystal-covered canopy. Installed on a corner of Old Street in London, the 4.5-metre-tall Ommatidium sculpture features 1,500 faceted crystal lenses and is named after the individual parts that make up the compound eyes of many insects.
Photo from DEZZEN.
Wood tiles by Renata Rubim
Designer Renata Rubim partnered with Oca Brasil on a series of wooden tiles that aim to revisit distinct periods of Brazilian design history: Tribal, Modernist, and Colonial.
Article from DESIGN MILK.
Freedom by Pharrell Williams
People, nature and emotions in one clip. Freedom!
Butter design!
Inspired while on a picnic with friends, Korean designer Yeongkeun Jeong conceived the idea for Butter! Better! after forgetting to bring a knife along. A simple yet brilliant idea, Yeongkeun tells Designboom that he wanted the product to “satisfy people both sentimentally and emotionally” because he believes eating is “not just a behaviour to achieve satiety, but involves all the senses”.
Images courtesy of Designboom.
Shelf with Optical Illusion by Charles Kalpakian
Lebanese designer Charles Kalpakian has designed ‘rocky’, a credenza featuring well-defined angular and sculptural lines. kalpakian created a 3D variation of a classic pattern used by cabinet makers; playing with perceptions of space and volume that reveals itself and changes according to the observer’s point of view. made of steel, the coating of the shelves has a slightly textured touch and comes in three different colors – black, blue or aluminum grey. check out the middle eastern collection by charles kalpakian here.
Article form DESIGNBOOM.
All images courtesy of Charles Kalpakian.
