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StPete based designer Lesha Galkin (one third of Dopludo Collective) released a new experimental home shelving object - Nenuphar. Floating like a water-lily Nenuphar is a completely eco-born system using metal strings with no fixation and wooden shelves with organic shapes. The distributed weight of the construction rests easily on that 10 rods.
This is a rare type of post when we feature craftsmen but Hard Graft wins a full attention. The masters of premium italian leather and wool felt knows how to keep all you gadgets and other urban nomad things all together with a modern twist.
Hard Graft is a perfectionist duo - monie.ka and James based in London, UK. They do design and produce sleek objects of desire in Italian workshop called "The Brothers". Stitch to stitch, button to button their products are a real aesthetic heritage available for purchase and delivery right now (pity they don't deliver with DHL or UPS to Russia, and that is a real torment for us).
In conjunction with its major Gerrit Rietveld retrospective, Vitra Design Museum has invited five of the most innovative designers from the Netherlands to join a partner from the region in developing a design project. The results will be shown from 12 June (Art Basel) until 02 September 2012 in the exhibition “Confrontations".Studio Wieki Somers teamed up with chocolatier Rafael Mutter to create the ‘CHOCOLATE MILL’. It will be installed and in use from 15 June.
http://vimeo.com/44097005
After Instagram Camera concept that we actually did not like for it's form lose function here goes a smart concept of Instagram Glasses from Markus Gerke.Instaglasses is a smart way to live "la vie en rose" or just "en Instagram". You activate the glasses by pushing “Insta” and option to choose between different filters. Then take a picture with your glasses and upload the image straight to Instagram. Voila!
Also worth to mention a concept made by Mauricio Thomsen for Ray-Ban Instagram (Ray-Ban has so many concepts floating around and still doing glasswork as it is still the 90ss of 20 century, shame on them).
LiquiData is a multitouch application to explore your personal movement profile and to show other people engaging places by adding photos and comments with the help of your smartphone. It can be seen as a rating system that offers people the possibility to discover new spots in an unknown surrounding e.g. during a city-visit. Although a smartphone is not necessary to interact with the system, it offers you the possibility to give insights to your movements through the city and lets you compare your mental map with the reality. For instance, this system could give guests of a hotel (lobby) the option to share their walked trails and show other visitors their favorite coffee shops or parks.
Team: Gunnar Friedrich David Ikuye Pierre La Baume Christopher Pietsch Luis Grass
http://vimeo.com/43120464
Whether you are visiting Glastonbury 2012 or just having a romantic camp these tents from @FieldCandy will cheer up mosquitos and loafing bears.
300 Edition Hermès digital rangefinders will ship this summer for $25,000, as well as 100 Série Limitée Jean-Louis Dumas models which will go for $50,000 each. This not an ad, this is an act of visual fetishism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LAfSfnykXfo
Lomography takes a new twist with new La Sardina cameras made of real sardinas tin cans with awesome custom designs and brand new flash "Fritz the Blitz".I bet they are all sold out but hurry up, maybe you can grab one La Sardina http://microsites.lomography.com/la-sardina/
Here go an Italian studio "ADR" that had already teased us with iCam concept half year ago and vanished in huge wave of blogs posts. Now they designed a real camera from Instagram icon.
Our new adding to Car category is Jaguar concept created by Budapest based industrial design student - Laszlo Varga. Appreciate his project on Behance.
http://vimeo.com/33255300
One of prosperous Russian illustrator and graphic designer Evgeny Kiselev shows up his recent collaboration with Logitech company. Together with other world-based talents (Heiko Windisch, Archan Nair, Jimmy Rinnick, Joy Yang and Shadow Chen) Evgeny created a collection of object tattoos worth to see, and if you feel lucky, to purchase. www.logitech.com/en-us/349/9898?pcid=9898&WT.ac=ps%7C9929%7Chp
One of the leading product designer of Russia Dima Loginoff has updated personal website. This year he was awarded by iF and Red Dot for ceramic Tiles made for Vitra brand. His portfolio host award-winning sofas, lamps and other concepts worth to see live neither on the web. And you have a chance - Dmitry will presents his latest works at Florence Design Week this month.
The Dopludo's Collective concept wooden laptop Vool stand we spoke about year ago went to production. Initially designed by collective member Lesha Galkin this piece of eco-design will perfectly fit any friendly house or freelance environment. Check the details and prices on http://vool.me/
http://vimeo.com/40696923
Awesome example of Japanese object design as a pure state of art. Lacquered paper-objects by Nendo
A small container created using a 3D printer that cuts, stacks and pastes sheets of paper one by one. We finished the surface with lacquer. The lacquer adhered thickly to the edges of the accumulated paper, and pulled at the paper's surface, resulting in a mysterious texture like wood grain.
Project Glass is a new technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment. Now you information will be not only shared through desktops and mobile but directly from the human environment by using special spectacles. Project Glass is a concept of something like a Visual Apple Siri hence Siri is already working on fields, Google is just playing with huge data and information they own through Google Plus social network. But personally we like how Google made up this concept, check the video and enjoy the future (hopefully it is near) g.co/projectglass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4
The Facebook ‘poke’, one of the longest-standing features on the social network, is no longer just a virtual gesture.
Designers Jasper van Loenen and Bartholomäus Traubeck have created a device that when worn can give someone a physical poke. Check the video
http://vimeo.com/38155224
If you have not heard it already, meet Creative Cards project. The main aim of the project is to create something astonishing, collectable and unique. CC has invited 54 top digital creative ninjas and asked them to pick up one playing card and make a design of it in own style and technique. There are names as Joshua Davis, Shotopop, Brosmind, Your-Majesty, Sara Blake, Evgeny Kiselev and others. We haven’t published them all on the website yet, but will fill the gaps by the end of this month. Cards are available for pre order. http://creativecards.cc/
Project brought up by Digital Abstract.
Vadim Kibardin is very close with production of his wall mounted LED version of digital alarm clocks "White&White" he designed in early 2009. The project was upgraded from Black&White version to White&White and simplified to a unibody (it had detachable items in his first version). Now available for pre-order from KibardinDesign website.
"Grand Maket" is a scale model (1:87) of Russia covering the country on 200 square meters of permanent interactive (yes, trains are moving and so on) exhibition in Saint-Petersburg. This is a perfect place for kids and parents to spend a day discovering hidden and unusual parts of Russia scaled down and gently spiced with a humor in details. Check their official website. Many thanks to StPete based fashion photographer Daria Markova for materials
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