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Innovtive Chair

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Heat Sensative Table

The table by designer Huo Yijin could be found in a downstairs room and changed colour from brown to green when hot water was spilt onto its surface.

Delicate Staircase

The Plumen 001 light bulb, created by design brand Hulger

tylish low energy light bulb wins the 2011 Brit Insurance Design of the Year Beautifully innovative UK entry wins coveted international design award British designer Samuel Wilkinson and product design company Hulger, have won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2011 for their stunning redesign of the low energy light bulb. Beating over 90 entries to claim the winning title, 2011 Jury Chair Stephen Bayley presented the award at today’s awards ceremony held at the Design Museum.

Beijing Lighting design

Beijing Design Week 2011: Beijing studio lasfera presented a collection of furniture including handmade lamps of curled bamboo at 751-D Park last week. At the lasfera booth on Beijing Design Week 2011 at 751 exhibition area Italian design and German quality meet Asian inspiration. For customers sharing the passion for exclusive custom-made interior objects, which give a certain “elite touch” to their living spaces and who respect ecological consciousness this young design studio from Beijing, presents a range of innovative furniture items.

In Vein by Ayala Serfaty

Sixteen pieces are presented at Cristina Grajales Gallery in New York as part of Serfaty’s first solo exhibition in the United States.

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Libray - German

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or its loft-like offices inside a spacious industrial warehouse in Amsterdam, the creative studio Onesize—they work in various mediums ranging from motion graphics and animation to visual effects and film and T.V. production—worked with the Rotterdam-based sustainable design firm Origins Architecture to create a contemporary workspace that is both functional and structurally innovative.

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nspired by natural habitats like cocoons, beehives and spiders’ nests, British designer Liam Hopkins created a cozy dining space at Bloomberg’s London headquarters. Using reclaimed cardboard and pallets, Hopkins created a cave-like shelter that protects a rectangular table inside. The frame is made of an astonishing 3972 triangular cardboard borders, while the same number fill the inside. Held together by 11000 nails that had been reclaimed from wooden pallets, the resulting structure was built first in triangular sections, then assembled on-site by hand. ‘Pupa utilises the structural and acoustic properties of cardboard,’ Hopkins says. The project was created for Arts Co. and Bloomberg’s Waste Not, Want It series of specially-commissioned art and design projects made almost wholly of Bloomberg’s waste.

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The façade of London’s famed Victoria & Albert Museum has had a makeover, as a massive wooden installation is towering over a main entranceway. Created for the London Design Festival, Timber Wave is three-dimensional lattice spiral made of American red oak wood. Fully self-supporting, the structure rises 12m high. Visitors are invited to ‘walk through’ its circular form as they enter into the museum. The project was commissioned by AHEC (American Hardwood Export Council) and designed by architect Amanda Levete of AL_A. The wooden structure was constructed by Cowley Timberwork and engineered by Arup. ‘The V&A’s Cromwell Road entrance is vast, multi-layered and very ornamental,’ says David Venables, European director of AHEC. ‘The form responds to this with a single dynamic gesture in timber; the use of wood as a structural material is well documented at the V&A.’

Scottish installation artist Lee Borthwick has created an urban tidal wave made from waste pallets. Using 500 wooden pieces, Borthwick arranged the strips from darkest to lightest and threaded them together like a tapestry. The result resembles a waterfall with a sense of movement, curve and a dramatic towering effect. ‘The piece is responding to environmental changes and reflecting on how the urban environment can engulf us leaving us disconnected with nature,’ Borthwick explains. Borthwick graduated from RCA in 2008 and now has her own studio at Bainbridge Studios West Norwood, London. In With The Tide premiered at Tent London during London Design Festival.

While fast-food restaurants often feature dingy plastic furnishings and retro lighting, Australian chain Nando's is introducing refreshingly modern, bright and designed spaces. Inspired by the history of Portuguese sailors exploring the world, the 135-sq-m Nando’s Canberra has a raw, natural concept. The focal point, a ceiling installation made of curved plywood panels, is above the raised seating area and accented with rope and copper detailing. ‘These panels evoke and abstractly convey the interior structure or “ribs” of an explorer’s sailing ship,’ says Kristina Hetherington, director of Design Clarity. ‘The finishes include tone-on-tone decorative floor and wall tiles, white washed brick and copper details to create a natural aged, raw look.’ Laser-cut timber combines with rustic wall paint to accent the concept of being on a ship.

A former 1940s brick and timber warehouse has been converted into a modern office in San Fransisco. The challenge for IwamotoScott Architecture was to respect budget and schedule constraints while redesigning the space to include workstations for digital production, prototyping, a showroom and meeting space. The office is owned by interactive media brand Obscura Digital. The impressive 3345-sq-m space is divided between three levels. The lowest level contains the workshop and showroom, while the reception, meeting spaces and main offices on the middle level. Production space is on the top floor. A focal point is the custom-made BookCaseScreenWall – an array of 186 folded sheet metal modules. The pieces were laser-cut and attached to 31 vertical ribs suspended from an existing steel structural beam.