Authors: Ivana Žalac, Ivana Cooper, Marin Jelčić, Saša Mitrović
Title: Konzola (Cantilever)
A few weeks ago, the results of the competition “SIT DOWN ZAGREB” for the Zagreb’s new benches were announced. 18 projects have been chosen for realization near the sporting track Jarun in Zagreb. We are showing here the chosen proposals which were designed by architects, artists and sculptors. MORE…
On the 3rd of September at 20:00 there will be the opening of the exhibition “TAILOR MADE FURNITURE” at Orion Intertrade in Ljubljana. The exhibition will present products of renowned furniture company Wittmann from Etsdorf in Austria. MORE…
From July 1st to October 18th Slovenski etnografski muzej (Slovene Etnographic Museum) in Ljubljana hosts travelling exhibition Marimekko: Fabric, Fashion, Architecture. The exhibition explores over a half century of the company’s history, focusing on the work of the talented designers who defined the firm’s identity, tracing its sometimes-turbulent ascent from a local textile print works to an internationally recognized brand. MORE…
In this summer the fifth International Design Workshop will be held between 31st August and 6th of September in Zsennye, Hungary, providing the opportunity to the designer society from across the world to meet, discuss and work together. The workshop is open for design students, professionals, and design-oriented people from all over the world. MORE…
For Use, a group born of the partnership between some young Croatian industrial designers and an Austrian graphic designer, got all bent out of creative shape and designed the Twist table for Moroso.
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Fashion, as a phenomenon, has far exceeded the border-framework of dressing/shopping; it’s become ‘shopentertainment’ and brands the programs we love to watch.
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Sushi, sashimi, kebab, spring rolls, paella, pizza. One of the most evident signs of globalisation is actually food. In any big city the world over you can eat most any kind of cuisine. Chinese restaurants were probably the first serving ethnic food abroad; today the cooler include Japanese sushi or what’s called “fusion” food – a mixture of ingredients from many cultures.
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Monarque Wine Store & Drink Chiller
A select wine has its own life. In its exquisiteness it simply will not tolerate carelessness. And good storage for your select bottles is definitely worth serious thought. Those who appreciate their wine ought to provide the optimum conditions for storage, maturing and ageing.
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“Plasche” is a bag with changeable plastic jackets. The core is sewn out of denim or terry cloth while the exterior is composed of different plastic bags. So you buy the inside once and enhance the outer look. Available in two sizes: 25×35 cm or 20×20 cm. The designer’s work is largely an ironic view on people using objects and giving them different stories and souls before throwing them away. Design: kubiquelle, Austria
Each day we find more innovative, eye-catching bags out there. They make for a great creative playground and a cheap but effective marketing tool. Some bag facts: polyethylene is cheaper and lighter than paper, which is why shopping bags are largely made of plastic. You can reuse them as either garbage bags, or recycle them along with other plastic containers. But sooner or later, these thin plastic creatures will take over the world. While most stores provide cheap, reusable shopping bags in an effort to cut down on costs and waste, many more out there don’t. The solution: take your own bag and transform it into a new, durable – ad flashy – one.
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Nataša Peršuh, fashion designer
DANCERS IN THE LIGHT
Il a pour toi, donné ordre ŕ ses Anges, de te garder en toutes tes voies Psaume 91
Angels Dancers Lovers …Demons. Light. Brightness. Wearing light. Lightwear. Artwear. Angelwear.
A dress with emotions. A handbag that glows – from inside. Light as a skirt, as flying shoes, and jewellery that glows.
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Design by Arne Vehovar
Stol Pisarniški stoli d.o.o. has been manufacturing chairs for over 105 years. Chairs of one the most important Slovene architects Jože Plečnik and even more Niko Kralj’s and Branko Uršič’s chairs have contributed greatly to company’s success at home as well as abroad in the past century.
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Bang & Olufsen is known for its products which every time created a new user experience and earned an iconic status, a lasting value. Is this still the case? Is it still possible to permanently satisfy the buyer? We know that nowadays with Hi-Tech products it is explicitly all about trends which do not follow certain standards, such as sustainability, longevity of the product etc.
At Bang & Olufsen, we recognize the importance of identifying, cultivating and maximizing our strengths. Our core competences are the glue that binds us together as a company and the engine of new business development. Although we have many areas of expertise, we have identified not just three, but EIGHT areas, which we refer to as core competence areas – quality, picture, sound, user interaction, design, integration, mechanical movements, materials and finish.
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Ivan Djordjević (Anigio&partners, Serbia), Jernej Rot (WE.DO, Slovenia) and Gianmaria Sforza (Italy) talk about their creations and reflect on transformation in design.
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Scott Klinker thoughts about relation between design and innovation and challenges for designers today.
What is the role of design in innovating new products in a global market? How do designing and innovating coexist and interact in the development process of new products?
Design excels at communicating new cultural ideas to the public by giving form to user experience. Innovation excels at defining design and business opportunities to improve strategic business models. These processes are often layered together and happen concurrently. Truly transformational ideas will push to the cutting edge of both communication and strategy. MORE…
Greta Godnič is a scenographer. By training she’s an architect, but at heart she’s a television scenographer. “The most beautiful thing to happen in my life is for me to be able to do scenography”. There aren’t many opportunities for this kind of work in Slovenia so she feels privileged. Perseverance, extensive knowledge, and the love of her work find expression in convincing results, when an empty television studio is transformed into a sparkling new fairy tale.
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The most striking and attractive characteristic of Paola Lenti’s carpets is their sophisticated use of materials, patterns and colours – all extremely contemporary – combined with the most advanced techniques employed in the traditional art of carpet manufacture.
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1. VÖSLAUER
Origin: Austria
Design: Vöslauer
Characteristics: lightweight PET returnable bottle with wave design; equipped with comfort grip and the exclusive Vöslauer easy twist-off cap.
2. DANA
Origin: Slovenia
Design: Dana
Characteristics: simple, traditional, partly-squeezable water bottle.
A 1.5l cold beverage is true salvation after a good bike ride or a hot summer jog – or a hard day slaving over a hot computer screen for that matter. But have you ever asked yourself what an empty bottle looks like in its afterlife?
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Christoph Steidl-Porenta: mystic storyteller, master craftsman, eclectic artist
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We asks three designers or design groups about their chair designs and the suspiciously suggestive overtures these creations exude: Fabbio Novembre (Italy), ASOBI’s Gorazd Malačič (Slovenia) and Nikola Radeljković from NUMEN (Croatia and Austria).
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They might look like S&M equipment at first sight, but this unique bottle openers made form selected knives are gaining fetish status on its own.
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The ZUUM Roulette And ZUUM Interactive Display, from the drawing board of Damjan Uršič, are brand sparkling new products out of Slovenia. The beginning of this success story began very simply; no company, no factory, just a brilliant idea.
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Discarded chairs from long-forgotten office buildings of the 70s have found their way to the back streets and urban desserts of Belgrade thirty years later.
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Fast food, Prva gimnazija; Sarajevo
The enduring legend of the Mächtig K67 modular kiosk lives on – and serves up a mean burek as well
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Franci Kuzma and the pursuit of audio perfection, as played on Kuzma turntables and tonearms
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Davor Bruketa and Nikola Žinić would like to collect football stickers, but are too busy producing award-winning design
The appearance of Bruketa&Žinić in the mid-90s marked, in some way, a generational shift in Croatian design. They themselves say they started to be recognized as strong individuals – at Greiner&Kropilak and studio Božesačuvaj – just at the right moment, when there was no one else out there other than a handful of older, well-established designers.
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Evolution Accelerated
This year has been a big year in technology-driven and related sectors, which in turn has created a big stir in the (largely consumer) marketplace and back again in tech- and design-driven products and services.
Popular consumer electronics got a shot in the arm with Apple’s new iPhone 3G, which launched mid-July and sold one million units inside three days. Apple CEO Steve Jobs pointed out that it took all of 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so things were clearly “off to a good start”. MORE…
Made of 18-8 stainless steel, this ice cream spoon, by Hisakazu Shimizu / Sabo Studio, feels smooth and velvety on the lips, and is meant as an homage to the much loved inconsequential or unnecessary products of the 20th century. In this way – with this sleek bit of culinary hardware – say the designers, they grant immortality to the marvelllously familiar wooden ice cream spoon. MORE…
The Dutch UNStudio architects recently launched their first chair design, called MYchair. The chairs are upholstered in two colours and were created for the German Walter Knoll company.
The architectural approach to furniture is different from that of the industrial designer: the architect begins with the space and the environment that the chair will become a part of. MORE…
Big: Why did you decide to become a designer?
Maša Okršlar Popovič: Becoming a designer actually wasn’t a decision at all. It was simply a path, that always seemed very natural to me. If I remember correctly, my first awarness of that appeared when I was eleven. MORE…
South Africa-born designer Ryan Frank has come up with a scheme to design and build furniture from sawn-up (refuse) desks salvaged by GreenWorks, a charity and social enterprise that reclaims timber from redundant office furniture collected around the UK. 
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Twenty-three year-old designer Takumi Yoshida has come up with a phone design that serves the needs of the visually impaired. The “SENS” phone (written SÉNS) features a unique keyboard scheme where all of the keys are slightly different to the touch from one another, making the keys easily recognisable, and allowing the user to know where they are on the keyboard at all times. The waves and contours central to the recognition concept also make for compelling visually engaging design. MORE…
This year in the automotive sector is one of transition and re-affirmation, with manufacturers generally choosing to go one of two ways: back to the past, falling back on nostalgia-rich tradition; or forward with new technologies and design formulations. The (fuel-electric) hybrids introduced just a couple of years back are seeing refinements and improvements, and more models in the line-ups offered in a hybrid version.
German-born designer Sebastian Gronemeyer grew up surrounded by the works of Arne Jacobsen Poul Kjärholm and Eero Saarinen. He brings, through his company Silence and Grace, two fresh new designs to 100% Design in London this month: The Orchid Chair and The W Chair. MORE…
The London-based, 100% Design event is one of the biggest and most important design events on the world’s design calendar, bringing together manufacturers, name designers and major specifiers from all over the world. 100% Design fuses the worlds o
f architecture and design with innovative, contemporary interior products, creativity and a dynamic mix of new and established talent. MORE…
The design behind the Grohe Ondus is intended to make life simpler, by making it possible – and easy – to make personalised presets for most washing and bathing functions. The automated features are built around a one-touch interface which operates bath and shower performance. Further, the user interface is icon-based simplifying operation and digital programming. MORE…
The Mutaflex Seating Concept by Barcelona-based Figueras International Seating recently received the Award for Business and Commercial Innovation, in the Culture of Innovation category. The prizes are an initiative of the Granollers City Council in collaboration with a number of entities based in the county of Vallés. MORE…
Cremation demands specific solutions, so Belgium’s Maximal Design has created a cremation coffin with integrated urn in order to appeal to the specific functional needs and emotional circumstances of a cremation funeral. MORE…
Johannesburg-based Ronel Jordaan, a South African textile designer active almost 30 years now, sees inspiration in nature, and uses felt to express her colourful imagination. MORE…
Swiss designer Nicole Locher opened her boutique in Paris back in 2001, taking inspiration from flea markets in Paris and London. She combines elements of vintage and contemporary fashion into a single concept, creating a playful, unique style. MORE…
This year the third-year students of the IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) in Turin were challenged to design a BMW of 2015. The 35 students involved were subdivided into 18 teams, all coordinated by Fulvio Fantolino, Coordinator of the Transportation Design – Car Design Course and owner of F&F Design Studio. MORE…
The Marco Polo apartment is the interior design project of a private residence located in the Aventino area of Rome. The house renovation by Carola Vannini Architecture – 120 sqm in all – included the complete reorganization of interior spaces, as well as the design of new furniture and lighting. MORE…
