Category: Design

  • Pirineus by Colapso Studio

    Pirineus by Colapso Studio

    Colapso Studio was founded by Susana Piquer in 2014 with the idea of creating a multi-platform studio focused on the design of spaces, whether permanent or ephemeral, and products. Susana graduated from the University of Barcelona in Technical Architecture, followed by a post graduate course in Design and Interior Architecture and a masters in Art Direction in Madrid. Depending on the project, Susana leads a team that changes based on the needs of the brief, making each project special and meaningful.

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    Colapso Studio’s latest project is Pirineus, a home goods collection taking its name from the mountain range separating the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe. Inspired by the shapes of mountains, the first two pieces of the collection are a jeweller and a tray made of pine wood and mirror, created to fit intuitively. The products are designed around keywords such as “subtle”, “simplicity” and “reflection”, and are made by small and traditional workshops in Madrid.

    You can find more information about Colapsto Studio and Pirineus on their website.

    Pirineus photos by Olga de la Iglesia.

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  • Future Positive x Radisson Red

    Future Positive x Radisson Red

    Radisson Red is a hotel concept by Radisson for those interested in art, music and fashion. The first Radisson Red hotel is opening later this year in Brussels, followed by other locations across the world.

    We recently collaborated with Radisson Red on their brand new blog, creating a series of features showcasing the work of creative designers, artists and makers based in some of our favourite cities. Find out more about them below and read each individual story on Radisson Red’s blog.

    Act

    Act is a brand of espadrilles and accessories founded in 2013 and established between Berlin and Mallorca. Silvia Conde photographed co-founder Isabel Rotger in Berlin for this feature.

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    Pino Gay

    Pino Gay is the name of the project of Camila Pino Gay, a designer and illustrator based in Santiago de Chile. Our contributor Carlos Molina paid a visit to her flat in the Chilean capital.

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    Patrik Larsson

    Patrik Larsson is a freelance interior architect and furniture designer living and working in Gothenburg. Swedish photographer Hilda Grahnat followed him around the streets of Gothenburg for this feature.

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    Karen Mabon

    Karen Mabon is an accessories designer based in Edinburgh. We visited her studio in Edinburgh’s New Town and spent a morning photographing her.

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    Airplantman

    Josh Rosen calls himself Airplantman and designs incredible vertical gardens from his studio in Los Angeles. Our contributor Valerie Chiang visited him to photograph his creations.

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    Pena Jewels

    Miriam Álvarez and María Sanchez are the creative team behind Pena Jewels, a jewellery brand born in Lisbon and now based in Madrid. Silvia Conde photographer their studio.

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    Flora & Laura

    Flora & Laura is the project of Helsinki-based art director and flower stylist Laura Väinölä. Laura Iisalo spent a day with her documenting a day in her life.

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  • ATUEMARÜ

    ATUEMARÜ

    Margit Steidl and Roland Dorn are the founders of Graz-based collective ATUEMARÜ. As a parallel project born from their love for bikes, Margit and Roland have started building lamps using rims from found bicycles, resulting in unique designs.

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    Photos & Interview by Clara Wildberger

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    Please tell us about your passion for bikes. How did you come up with the idea of creating rim lamps?

    Roland: A long time ago my mother bought me my first bike, but I enjoyed more riding my sister’s pink princess bike because it was faster. Years later, I started building and restoring my own single speed and fixed gear bikes. After a few bike projects, I ended up with quite a lot of leftover parts…

    Margit: …and you wanted to have a lamp in your room. You were sitting on the balcony, besides some of your bike stuff. So, why not doing a lamp out of the leftover bike parts? We mounted different rims and spokes and created the first rim lamp – we liked it and named it ‘The Earth’.

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    How do you distribute tasks?

    Roland: Margit is the best bike waste collector ever!

    Margit: Roli is the one who has the knowledge about electricity and such things. Basically we make any decisions and work on tasks together.

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    Tell us about your design process? How many different models are you planning to create?

    Margit: There are many possible connections of rims and spokes left to create more different forms of lampshades. Therefore, I doubt on ever reaching a finite point. This is also one of the main motivations when creating these rim lamps.

    Roland: Every lamp is and will be unique. First, we create a draft of a shape we imagine. We then start choosing parts we’d like to use and from that point we just work on the object. Sometimes we end up with a shape different from the original draft.

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    How would you describe your lamps?

    Roland: An object with history, caused by the former life of the parts – kind of reincarnation of wheels. Dirty somehow, looking fragile, although they’re not at all.

    Margit: Playful somehow, lively, working with one of the most archaic shapes: the circle.

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  • Typodarium Calendar 2016

    Typodarium Calendar 2016

    Typodarium 2016 is a tear-off calendar, just like the one our grandmas used to hang in the kitchen, but this calendar unveils a new font everyday. On the front, the font is prominently displayed, and on the back it’s described in more detail – how it originated, from what or who came the inspiration and where we can obtain the font. Typodarium 2016 is published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz.

    www.2016.typodarium.de

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    Images courtesy of Typodarium

  • La Charrette by Antonin+Margaux

    La Charrette by Antonin+Margaux

    Antonin+Margaux is a Nantes-based graphic design and screen printing studio. Founded in 2011, Antonin+Margaux do client work, have an online shop where they sell their own screen printed products and also run numerous workshops. Their love for screen printing has turned into La Charrette, a project in which they’re planning to transform a bike into a screen printing trailer and travel across France and even Europe. We invite you to find out more about this innovative idea on the video below and to contribute to Antonin+Margaux’s crowdfunding campaign.

    www.kisskissbankbank.com/la-charrette-print-ride

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