Esta es una forma original de decorar y al mismo tiempo resguardar la joyeria de una forma elegante y practica elaborada por Tithi Kutchamuch una diseñadora que se enfoca a elaborar en otros productos para el hogar si quieren saber un poco mas la página es http://www.tithi.info/new/main.htm ojo aunque esta en inglés tiene muchas cosas que valen la pena verlas

A Secret Friend by Tithi Kutchamuch

August 19th, 2008

Inspired by the death of her dog, London-based designer Tithi Kutchamuch has designed a range of jewellery pieces with animal-shaped bases to keep them on.

“My dog died a month before I got back to my parents’ home,” explains Kutchamuch. “I would love to bring her everywhere with me if I could.”

The collection includes a necklace, ring and bangle made from patinated bronze, oxidized silver and silver.

Kutchamuch describes the pieces as “Simple jewellery as a part of home that you can bring with, keep them safe and take them home.”

Photographs by Suratchai C. and Seng Jariengrojkul.

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Posted by Rose Etherington

SNOG frozen yogurt shop by Cinimod Studio

June 28th, 2008

Dominic Harris of Cinimod Studio, in collaboration with Pablo Uribe of Studio Uribe and ICO Design, has designed the new SNOG frozen yogurt shop in South Kensington, London.

The designers intended the interior to represent a never-ending summer; the flooring is printed to look like grass, while vinyl flowers created by ICO Design cover the walls.

More than 3,000 individually controlled LED lamps behind the translucent plastic ceiling are intended to evoke a summer sky, with colour and ‘clouds’ changing according to the time of day.

Here’s some text from Cinimod Studio:

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‘SNOG’ is a specialist food outlet that exclusively sells pure frozen yogurt, and is the first one of its kind in the UK. Ico design consultancy was responsible for the name development, branding and graphics. The cheeky name is derived from ’snow & yogurt’ and is perfect for the bold, young, urban and British brand. As SNOG is the first of its type in the UK, the brief was to create a new high-end interior ‘experience and emotions’ environment that bore no resemblance to prior ice-cream parlours or cafe precedents.

Cinimod Studio developed a store design concept aimed at evoking the feeling of a perfect never-ending summer. The interior is deliberately quirky, with a photographic grass floor and a ‘digital sky’ which adjusts the mood of the store perpetually throughout the day and evenings. The bright pink brand colour forms the backdrop to the store.

For the exterior a new fascia signage panel has been designed which features an array of vertical slats of pink acrylic, and has already been hailed as an instant ‘design classic’. Beyond this sign the facade is kept simple, with seamless glazing allowing full views into the store and its sky.

The primary interior surfaces are all of standard architectural finishes that have been ‘tweaked’ to perform new design functions. The seamlessly printed ‘grass’ floor is a commercial first, as is the digital ceiling with its fully integrated services. For the white glass walls ICO Design has created a graphic interpretation of British flowers. At ground level, the ‘Shitake’ stools from Moroso, designed by Marcel Wanders, work with the bespoke marble tables with their turned wood bases to create a contemporary and relaxed take on garden furniture, suitable for our ‘captured’ summer environment.

SNOG is the first store to feature a fully digital ceiling, which has been seamlessly inserted as a key element within the design. Over 3,000 individually controllable LEDs have been deployed behind a Barrisol stretched plastic ceiling in order to create a bright light box video surface.Digitally captured and manipulated clouds move gently across the store, with their colour and speed determined by the time of day.

The project sets a new standard for the high street speciality food outlets. The public response has been phenomenal, with people delighted by the playful design and varying lighting effects. This design represents the best of the British design talents as it is fun yet sophisticated, bold yet attentive to the fine details, and above all demonstrates a compelling fusing of lighting design with retail design. The end product is a delightfully engaging environment that should appeal to all.

Store: Snog Pure Frozen Yogurt
Opened: May 22nd 2008
Address: 32 Thurloe Place, South Kensington, London SW7 2HQ

Design Team:
Architecture and Lighting Design: Cinimod Studio
with Design Collaboration from: StudioUribe
Branding and Graphic Design: ICO Design

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Posted by Rose Etherington

fuente www.dezeen.com

Ribbon by Shin Azumi

July 29th, 2008

Ribbon is the title of a new candelabra by Japanese designer Shin Azumi for British homeware brand Innermost.

Exhibited as a prototype in Milan earlier this year, Ribbon is now in production and will be launched at 100% Design in London this September.

The following is from Innermost:

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The creation of Ribbon was a true labour of love for Innermost and designer Shin Azumi. Inspired by the challenge of creating a 21st century redesign of the candlestick, Shin came up with a work of grace and simplicity. Both Shin and Innermost wanted a design that would still be relevant 200 years into the future; something people would use and pass on to the next generation.

Innermost managed the complex process of translating Shin’s vision into solid form – involving investment casting, handcrafting, and a lot of polishing. The first 2 sets of tools failed and it took a series of innovations to solve the problems and get it right.

Launched as a prototype at the Milan fair in 2008, Ribbon is currently available in polished stainless steel. The factory Innermost chose to work with reckon this is the most complex investment casting they have ever undertaken and the item needed a lot of complex jigging and a special support structure in wax that forms with the design when metal is poured and is cut away after cooling and recycled.

One of the other simple things that came from this project was almost zero wastage; a single material using a single process where if the items don’t form correctly they are returned to the smelter and if they are damaged during polishing they either get polished more or returned to the smelter.

Dia. 297mm x h 181mm
Stainless steel, mirror finish

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Posted by Rob Ong

Fuente www.dezeen.com

Global Warming Rug by NEL for Nanimarquina

August 7th, 2008

Mexican design collective NEL have designed Global Warming Rug for Spanish textiles brand Nanimarquina.

The rug features a felt polar bear on a small iceberg in a large sea of carpet.

Here’s some info from Nanimarquina:

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NANIMARQUINA LAUNCHES THE GLOBAL WARMING RUG DURING THE VALENCIA INTERNATIONAL FURNITURE FAIR.

THE PIECE WAS DESIGNED BY THE NEL COLLECTIVE, FORMED BY FIVE MEXICAN DESIGNERS

GLOBAL WARMING PORTRAYS A POLAR BEAR STRANDED ON AN ICE FLOE, VICTIM OF MELTING POLAR ICECAPS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Global Warming contrasts the comfort and softness of a rug with a thorny problem that is specific to our time. Following the age-old tradition of using rugs as a means for communication and a cultural record, NEL is portraying global warming in a scene that invites us to reflect on our impact on today’s world.

Overshadowed by politicised discussions, climate change has been pushed off the front pages and into the science and financial sections, which has alienated the debate – as well as considerations of responsibility – from the personal social sphere. The rug, with its soft surface and charming felt bear, reclaims the reality of what is happening to our planet and brings it into the day-to-day realm in an attempt at spurring the individual into reflection and action. Global warming is a bid for hope. It represents our aspirations for a better future and a world that might be.

Global warming is part of Nanimarquina’s new catalogue, which will be presented during the Feria Internacional del Mueble in Valencia from the 23rd to the 27th of September 2008. Nanimarquina will be exhibiting at Pavilion 8, Stand D90.

NEL Collective
NEL is a platform for experimentation formed by an evolving collective of Mexican designers. The collective serves as a channel to create and exhibit projects that focus on the conceptual and playful side of design. The organic nature of the collective allows for an ever-changing pool of designers, which in turn generates a wide variety of projects that range from political statements to playful storytelling or aesthetic explorations.

The current members of NEL, all Mexican, are Ricardo Casas (1979), Alejandro Castro (1982), Héctor Esrawe (1968), Emiliano Godoy (1974) and Cecilia León de la Barra (1975).

NANIMARQUINA
Nanimarquina is a leading company in the textile decorations sector. Its collections are sold with great success in more than forty-five countries on five continents.

Nanimarquina guarantees that no child labour is used in the manufacture of its carpets. It collaborates with Care & Fair – an organisation created with the goal of eradicating child labour in the carpet industry in countries like India, Pakistan and Nepal – to which it donates 1% of the value of its imports from India.

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Posted by Marcus Fairs

Fuente www.dezeen.com