In Yokohama this weekend? Go to Schemata's Paco all-in-one living unit open house. Also this week from Tokyo; a new Riki clock and crystal clear key keyboards.
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In Yokohama this weekend? Go to Schemata's Paco all-in-one living unit open house. Also this week from Tokyo; a new Riki clock and crystal clear key keyboards.
This Week from Tokyo a time of sky watch, a ply-like phone, the Prismoid phone and a music cage...
Battery maker Eneloop makes a mood light flashlight, the Rezon Cutter Pendant for graphic designers, a "spin the table-top" table and more...
+ Kisa Kawakami designs the transforming Kisawings lamp for Yamagiwa (above), new D-Bros 2010 calendars and Ceramic Pendant Lamps by Hironori Inada...
This week new cutlery by Fumie Shibata (above), slanted glasses by No Quiet, Naoto Fukasawa netbooks, desktop accessories for Suikosha, the intuitive Reading Lamp by Jun Yasumoto and Ryohei Yoshiyuki's coffee grounds ashtray...
New submissions at Fresh MoCo; Pursuader Bag by James Piatt, Hibernate Cocoon by Aimee Pegram, Tall Faces Laptop Skins by Lou Patrou, Chiseled Faucets by Sofian Tallal, d-light by liki liki, and Gilles Cufflinks by Sid Ramnarace. More at Fresh MoCo.
What we can see or what we can touch? Japanese designers Nosigner, Hiroyuki Ando, Junji Watanabe, and Eisuke Kusachi have developed a novel interface that can superimpose tactile information onto surfaces or images displayed on a computer monitor...
Inspired by the Coaster Clock above, YUEN'TO collaborates with the MoMA Store in Japan to create the Magnetic Clock...
Made to resemble the shadow of a chandelier on a corner wall, Federica Veronesi's NONCE' is a laser cut acrylic facsimile with backlit shadow crystals. One of several new items at Fresh MoCo including; Shigeichiro Takeuchi's Mag Frame, a single rod and a single plate but can easily hold and carry magazines, Sollos by Ralf Brenner, a new fluorescent lamp typology for idee.design.licht where the ring shaped bulb is the focal point, Ikea Dreams : Illuminated by Stephanie Levy, Ikea as art, c8- h10- n4- o2 by Gilad Davidi, a look at the rituals of coffee culture and more...
Fruit-shaped sticky notes that you can buy individually or in "crates" of six. More from Tokyo after the jump.
Ideaco's Blur Vase, designed by Jin Kuramoto, doubles as a vase and a watering pot. More vases, some ribbon cutlery and bamboo glassware after the jump.
New at Fresh MoCo; Carpet Sign's Caméléon rug changes color as subtly as its animal namesake, Spooner + Watts "extend the luxury of leather to the everyday" with cakeboxes and lunchboxes made of leather, during NEOCON tweet a request and get a hand drawn illustration on tabrasa, a low VOC dry-erase paint, Etienne Meneau's 7th limited edition, hand-blown glass wine decanter has eight feet and one spout, easily recreate the world's greatest architectural structures from ordinary sheets of paper with The Paper Architect and Floor Perch's cascading felt edges "create a visual and tactile pattern that provides cushion as well" (surprising for a table). More @Fresh.
Recent submissions to Fresh MoCo; Artist Michael Arick turns words or letters into personalized art by abstracting the letters of the alphabet, Bond. BeLowTech's Matthias Kaeding has video for his Unit3 Modular Architecture System, Victor gives wicker some funky novelty and modern styling, Estudio Merienda's ceramic Drop is a perfume bottle surrounded by concentric ripples that hold and display jewelry, Leave it to Gandia Blasco to make the most elegant contemporary summer swing, and Story Drawer combines RFID and an MP3 device to tell a story, artifacts are placed on the drawer to trigger the story. More @Fresh.
Chiaki Murata's Soh calculator for Metaphys looks better closed than open. More from Tokyo after the jump.
Nosigner turns his attention to mobile phones with a new 3-way sharing connector and innovative "drops" that enhance a phone's grip. More after the jump.
Mikiya Kobayashi's Tate Otama stand-up ladle. One of three items in this week's Tokyo round-up.
This post was originally posted on March 30, 2008. Helen Walters at BusinessWeek recently sat down with Starck at the Mercer Kitchen for a chat (listen to the podcast here), she asked him "Really, are you really ashamed of everything you've designed?". Starck's answer is layered and the conversation eventually segues to how he has always been an eco-warrior (?!). Vive la France et le Français!
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At MoCo Loco we don't editorialize often, ok at all, but every once in a while we gotta say something. Via PSFK and swissmiss, uber designer Philippe Starck, in an interview in Germany's Die Zeit weekly, answers a question we've been asking of designers for a while now; The world is already full of 'stuff' - as a designer, why do you choose to create more?
His answer: "I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact. Everything I designed was unnecessary. I will definitely give up in two years' time."
To that we say, why wait, go for it right now, get someone on the team to wind down the business or send out refund checks. Philippe, we luv ya, but there isn't an object on the planet you haven't designed, are you really saying that all design by extension is about crass materialism? You know we're all going to keep consuming stuff. Why don't you devote that substantial talent and media savvy of yours to making stuff that's smarter, more sustainable, and dare we say it, cool, in that gotta have it, materialistic way you know so well. Or is this really about clients who aren't quite ready to make the big changes required to create the smarter, more sustainable, cool design? Greenwashing got you down? It's not going to be easy. The world's top two most populous countries are now getting a taste for said stuff, so we're gonna make a lot more of it, most of it instantly disposable. You of all people could make a difference. Step up to the profession that served you so well, montre nous l'amour pour la planète Philippe.
Ryuji Nakamura's rapid prototyped Insect Cage has 0.3mm bars. After the jump, Ryuji's equally light and airy Hechima Chair, Felissimo's Japan Brand Pop Up Shop and Kyouei's Water Clock.
Schemata Architecture Office's third iteration of the Kurage lamp, made of 1.5mm optical fibre. After the jump, Shigeru Ban's Carbon Fiber Chair, Yuki Futa's Isu chair and Naoki Terada's Write In Measure for Muji.
Alexander Gelman's series of lacquer chess sets, created in collaboration with Kutani-yaki masters has been nominated for a Lohas Design Award. More after the jump. (image via designtobira.com)
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