When an original idea loses all meaning, then it becomes fashion. – Steve Oklyn Not Vogue, for Fashion Art Daily Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2013
The Sky’s The Limit – Vertical Farming
The densely populated city of Singapore is home to the first commercial-scale vertical farm, which opened last year, with the aim of decreasing dependence on food imports. Just 274 square miles, most of which is city, leaving little space to grow crops and vegetables for the inhabitants of Singapore. As a result, the city … Continue reading
Designs On Your Pleasure
LELO, the Swedish designer brand and the world’s leading provider of intimate lifestyle products is challenging next-generation innovators, designers and artists all around the world to come up with products and experiences that offer alternative kinds of sensory experiences to the usual sight and touch; LELO believes it’s time to extend the possibilities of design … Continue reading
Design P*rn_ ‘CANVAS’ By YOY Design Studio
Presented at Salone Satellite during Milan Design Week 2013, Japanese design studio YOY have developed ‘Canvas’, a series of two-dimensional hanging furniture pieces. Constructed out of wood and and aluminum, the volume is covered by an elastic fabric – screen-printed with drawings of different types of furniture. The piece works when the frame is leaned … Continue reading
Cheeky Brit Invasion In The ‘Dam
Anyone else spot these, scattered all over the city promoting the new Marks & Spencer store which opened in Kalverstraat last week? Cheeky little bit of contextualized promo-ing going on… indeed! Continue reading
A Catalogue Of Dreams And Designs For Life
The Dutch city of Nijmegen has launched affordable, architect-designed, state of the art, sustainable housing for mid-income buyers available to order through a catalogue. Flicking through the catalogue there are 29 designs to choose from, created together with several architectural firms, offering catchy names such as ‘Hooi een Huis’, ‘Our House in the Middle of … Continue reading
Stretching Limits
Great designers can stretch us towards the limits of our comfort & then create a new comfortable place where we didn’t expect to find one. – John Maeda, ‘Design is both the insanely radical and the passionately incremental‘ for GigaOM – 6/10/12 Continue reading
The Word On The Street_ Raw Materials Home Store, Amsterdam
‘The Word On The Street_’ is a new feature where we get out and about in our local neighbourhood(s) and explore the spaces and places, be it here and now or in the making, that we want to hang out in, whether for work or play, eating and drinking, shopping, resting and thinking… This week … Continue reading
Albert Heijnstein + Equation = Every Little Helps… NOT!
Room Service, Please?
It has snowed. And snowed. And snowed. Five days and nights now. Big, heavy flakes, a constant dump of deep powder and miles of deserted slopes. We feel cut off, a long way from home. And we’ve paid good money, for this? Oh yes, yes we have! And you know? Being a bit crazy-in-love with … Continue reading
Curated Futures 