When I get my own property and it comes to decorating you can be sure that this wallpaper will feature somewhere in my house. Designed by Taylor and Wood for Graham & Brown, Frames is an exciting and interactive paper that gives you complete control over the end result. Use it simply as it comes
Furniture
Furniture made from recycled road signs
Working with scrap aluminium traffic signs Boris Bally repurposes an otherwise discarded material and transforms it into unusual, edgy and urban furniture. Bally has a background in jewellery making and grew up in an environment where recycling was somewhat of a family tradition. His so-called ‘aha moment’ came in 1991 whilst making the shell form
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Interior Accessories
Decorative wall stickers
HU2 Design is a young London-based design company specialising in wall stickers. From the kitchen to the bathroom and the living room to kids bedrooms, these high-quality vinyl stickers come in all number of exclusive designs that can spruce up the dullest of spaces. Birdcages, flying pigs, duke boxes, hamster treadmills and the skyline of
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Lighting
A light on the tiles
Billie Jean is an innovative wall covering concept that incorporates a collection of translucent glass tiles designed to illuminate the bathroom. The design, by Finnish designer Henrik Amberla, was a submission for a competition run by home design company DNA+. Amberla took his inspiration from a Michael Jackson music video in which the mere touch
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Trend
Trend Forecasting
In my latest article for Designer magazine I talk to the ‘professional trend forecasters’ to find out how designers can look ahead to future developments in order to maximise the success and profitability of their products. You can read the article here or check out the selection of other articles I have written for Designer
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Trend
Off the Wall
Launched by a Gothenburg based design duo in early January, Off the Wall is a 3-Dimensional wallpaper designed by Kicki Edgren Nyborg as part of her Master’s thesis. Now, working in collaboration with her husband Peter Nyborg under the name of Kredema design, the duo have developed a collection of six different 3D shapes that
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Bathroom
Cupcake bathtub for kids
Dutch designer Beerd van Stokkum has given the classic cupcake case a new lease of life with his design, which he has aptly named Sweet Cake. Enlarged to extraordinary proportions the cupcake case has become a multi-purpose object. It can be used as a baby’s bath, flower box or garden pot, or a charming basket
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Kitchen
Portable mini kitchen
Moving Kitchen is a nifty little concept by South Korean designer Joongho Choi. The sleek looking portable mini-appliance can be moved anywhere around the house or even out to the garden – basically anywhere it is needed – by simply wheeling it around. The product is full of hidden surprises all neatly compacted into the
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Events
International Design Events Calender
Don’t forget to check out the events page of my blog by clicking the link on the right. Here I am compiling a list of all the international design events and exhibitions that I come across. I am constantly updating it and hopefully I won’t miss anything crucial.
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Uncategorized
Luxury camping
And here it is! A tent I wouldn’t mind going camping in! Although according to the designers, Enthoven Associates from Antwerp in Belgium, the Opera mobile holiday home is neither a tent, a caravan, nor a motor home. The Opera allows you the freedom and mobility of camping , but with the luxury of
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Uncategorized
The practical sleeping bag
I’m definitely not the camping kind of girl. Its not that I don’t enjoy the great outdoors, but when it comes to sleeping in a tent in an incredibly restrictive and uncomfortable sleeping bag I have to draw the line. However, I could be persuaded to change my mind if I had the Musuc bag,
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Furniture
Thinking outside the Boxetti
Designed and created by Latvian designer Rolands Landsbergs, the Boxetti Collection is comprised of five separate modules, each driven by three basic design principles – functionality, advanced technologies and the contemporary aesthetics of minimalism. Each of the modules is designed to achieve maximum efficiency by meeting the demands of functionality and suitability. All modules have
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Furniture
Human furniture anyone?
Fusing a futuristic and retro vision of design, which he calls ‘New-Retro-Futurism’, Paris based Belarusian designer Dzmitry Samal has some interest designs in his portfolio. Speaking about his approach to design he says: “I think that the future of design is in our past experience and heritage combined with modern technologies. I’m a keeper of
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Events
Polska! Year
Polska! Year started in Spring of this year and will continue through to 2010. It is a joint initiative of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The purpose of the Year is to bring the communities of Poland and Great Britain closer by strengthening cultural relations and
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Lighting
A bit of light reading?
This is exactly what I need in my house and is possibly one of the most stylish floor lamps I have ever seen. Designed by Eero Aarnio, Swan XL is an oversized version of the Swan table lamp also produced by Finnish company Martela. Aarnio reported designed XL by producing life-size drawings of the lamp
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Bathroom
Landscape bathroom for Roca
Russian designer Yaroslav Rassadin has designed this intriguing bathroom concept for Jump the Gap, an international design competition held by sanitaryware manufacturers Roca. Landscape is made from thick silicone or rubber and can be moulded into different shapes depending on how it is to be used. The use of an air-pump can completely change the
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Bathroom
Future Talents Bathroom Design Competition
Future Talents is a brand new competition in bathroom design run by brassware manufacturer Triflow Concepts.
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Bathroom
Love at first sight
I first spotted this bathtub back in July of this year when it was still a prototype and I loved it even then. Part of the aptly named Love project, designed by Arter & Citton for Italian Manufacturer Novello, this bathtub was first shown at ISH in Frankfurt earlier this year. The sleek smooth lines
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Appliances
A new view on cooking
As we increasingly face a lack of space and our living quarters continue to get smaller, one of the main challenges we have is fitting everything we own and need into a smaller footprint. This slightly wacky design was thought up by German designer Cornelius Comanns who entered it into the Electrolux Design Lab 2009
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Appliances
Smart Space
Smart Space is an innovative space-saving design that combines a shower, a washing machine and a dryer. Designed in response to the depleting water resources and lack of living space we face in the future, Smart Space is an eco-friendly design that occupies a mere 1 square metre of floor space, making it ideal for
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Bathroom
Badkamer sliding bathroom
The idea behind the Badkamer [Dutch for ‘bathroom’] is basically a sliding system that enables the user to make the most out of even the smallest bathroom space to create a fully functioning bathroom in a space no larger than 2m x 1m. By sliding elements to the side a space for showering can be created,
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Bathroom
The Ladybird Bathtub
The compact and very much multi-function Ladybird is a freestanding Vanity and Bath unit, aimed at apartment and loft-style living where space is at a premium. The vanity/lid of the Ladybird can be removed to reveal a tub within. The tub is a ‘sit’ style bath which is smaller in size than a typical bathtub and is an