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Blue for balance in 2013

|March 2011, we* forecasted a hard color of blue to become appraised. RGB-blue absorbs the eye like a cloudless sky, and there is absolutely an optimistic

1 Crystal chandelier

|One of the best design agencies in the world focused on the sustainability of crystal lighting. They’ve achieved a maximum light effect with a minimum

The new generation of makers

|A couple of students mashed two ideas together: 1. How can we bring back hands-on learning which is leaving the classroom (for children 8-13 years) 2.

Best pasta

|When in Assisi, admiring the cute off-perspective Giotto paintings of St. Francis, I was served the best pasta ever. It can be made in 5

Emoticons

|For two years now faces are coming out of a pure experiment. It started out as a material search to find out if – by stitching

Like fireflies

|Seen at the Graduation12 show at Design Academy Eindhoven. The shape is based on Buddhist Mandala circles with 60 fixtures that are also hinges in the

63,669 Views

|Thank you all! Last month this blog was hit 63,669 times! Pam Photo Viola Robbemondt

Cloudy bank

|’Tender’ is an installation for the annual  architects’Beaux Arts Ball at the iconic Williamsburgh Savings Bank in Brooklyn. A huge net was filled with mylar balloons and hundreds of iridescent

Tailored seat No. 001

|This chair that I saw at the Design Academy Eindhoven has been created like custom made shoes. The sitter has been measured up, and the

Loremo 2.0

|With the weight of a 2CV and the aerodynamics of a Porsche, the new Loremo is finally in the make with a fuel-busting claim of

MM @ HM

|With every designer collection at H&M, I am online clicking my way in, which may take up to an hour. November 15th is check-in time, if

Sea = 22°C

|I’m off to Ibiza, part of the Spanish Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The sea is warm, most tourists are gone, an amazing landscape and

Ultralight sit

|UK’s leading aerospace carbon fibre manufacturers –  involved in making some of the fastest and lightest cars on the planet – produced the carbon version of

Lowest – highest

|His lowest base jump ever: Baumgartner on the arm of Christ near Rio in 2001. His highest jump at October 14th ‘was really a lot harder than I

Easy does it

|What a perfectly small maquette! This 110m2 house with wooden roof is located near the sea at one of the Dutch islands in The Netherlands

Unique sitting

|While researching form fitting chairs for a new project, I bumped into this beautiful wood example and of course Fabio Novembre‘s plastic icon. Design (wood) Unknown

Creative planning

|Series of 8 carpets, representing different maps of about 1m2 km of downtown Beijing, embroidered by hand with the same technique of the propaganda slogans used by

Compare apples with pears

|Because of one of my clients I am very much into fruit drinks. Love this New Zealand cider: elegant, transparent, classic. Design Supply

80

|Today, 12.10.2012 is my father’s 80th birtday. He was born in Indonesia where between 1942-1945 in horrible Japanese Prisoner of War camps his mother and sister

Hot & spicy

|Simply beautiful packaging for extremely acidic and spicy flavored food. Of course the boxes could work for perfume as well, but what the hack, this will sell

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