We love Scooterkit; a design and technology project by Ben Wilson where teenagers were encouaged to build and personalize scooters.
Currently on show at the Aram Gallery in London, this project is part of Design Camp, an initiative designed to stop schools crippling individuality and spontaneity.
Amen to that!
www.benwilsondesign.co.uk
This postgrad project by Manuel Jouvin of France brings new meaning to the expression “nose to tail.”
Working with a snail farmer, Jouvin discovered that castings from cellulose-eating snails could be moulded into containers for the gastropods.
He then came up with the idea of feeding them Pantone-coloured paper.
Materia is manufacturing the biodgradable material under [...]
A blue-trimmed sneaker, well, um, cradles a pink-trimmed sneaker in this campaign entry called Nike Condoms.
The project spurred from an assignment for Academy of Art University student Marlene Franco to take an existing company that manufactures a line of products and take them into unexpected territory — which she did by crossing the sports brand [...]
Whether it’s a fabric or not remains to be determined but there’s no doubt that German design student Elisa Strozyk’s wooden creation is one of the most interesting textiles we’ve seen in a long time.
From afar, they appear rigid and architectural. Up close, they’re suprisingly fluid. The carpets and rugs are most [...]
What if the statistics we read in newspapers and see on the news crept into the products we use every day?
That’s the goal of student designer Nadeem Haidary’s In-Formed products: Calorie Intake, with four different sized plates and a fork with thines of varying lengths according to nationality; Water Usage, a faucet that shows you [...]
Inspired by his grandmother’s figurine collection, Canadian-born designer Jeremy Hatch created this avant-garde wall piece appropriately called The Accident.
We just love how the boy’s puddle of gold enamel pee plays off the refined nature of this otherwise traditional looking ceramic creation.
www.jeremyhatch.ca
