Posts by Niels-Peter

Mash Creative Calendar

East London / Essex based design studio Mash Creative designed an A1 calendar poster in a limited edition of 100. Okay … we kicked-off 2010 already almost 2.5 months ago, but it is never too late to put a nice calendar on your wall.

These nice, typographic, minimalist calendar posters are lithographs printed in two colors on 170gsm Cyclus offset with a 60% cyan shiner to achieve an extra rich black. Each poster is hand numbered and signed by the designer.

The calendar is available for purchase at Counter-Objects.

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BushkaBanks

Inspired by the famous silhouette of the Matriyoshkas, Racheli C. Sharfstein designed these piggy banks for Studio Ooga.

The piggy banks, made or cermamic, available in large, medium and small look like a family of two parents and one child.

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Rebranding the Swedish Armed Forces

A project group of Hyper Island – Robbin Ingvarsson, Fredrik Holmberg, Kristina Herngren, Anke Buchta, Simon Schlüter and Waldemar Wegelin- rebranded the Swedish Armed Forces. They turned the usual function of camouflage around and used one of the basic shapes of geometry, the triangle, to create a new type of camouflage that is all about showing yourself. The goal is to reflect the diversity with the Armed Forces.

The focus for Swedish Army is peacekeeping abroad. In order to fullfill their missions they want to attract new talent – brain rather than muscles.

The challenge of the rebrand was to change the Swedish Armed Forces from a traditional defensive institute into a modern employeer.

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Couple vases

The couple vases, made of porcelain, are designed by Germany-based Christine Ruff. Ruff, who studied ceramic design after an education in ceramics decorating, sees her work at the intersection of art and craft.

However clean and neutral it is, the form play of vases attracts your eye. Reflecting their form on the opposite, a bound is created between the two vases despite their outward differences.

“For a time like ours, when people’s taste seems to return to baroque, no-frills is rather refreshing, I think”

The pairs are available in either white or black matte glaze, or black and white.

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Trifoglio

Trifoglio – a mimimalist, futuristic, fruit bowl – is designed by Switzerland based designer Thomas Walde. Formed out of three identical plates stainless steel -  an enameled version is available aswell – this fruit bowl is “an ode to the triangle”. The Trifoglio collection consists of three different sizes.

I like the contrast between the sharp shaped bowl, made of a cold solid material like steel, and the actual content of the bowl; fruit, quite often organic shaped and soft.

Walde, working for the Swiss design studio SEIN, created Trifolgio in the context of design platform Postfossil. In 2009 Trifolgio was showcased at Neue Räume 2009, Switzerland’s international home and furnishings show.

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Alta Bike

The Alta Bike, a hybrid between a classic courier and a mountain bike, was designed as a collaboration project between the Norwegian designers Bleed, Norway Says and Frost Produkt in 2004. Initially the Alta Bike was supposed to be a project with a limited production of 50 bikes but Alta soon got so popular that it became the first serial production single speed bike on the market.

“The initial idea behind the Alta bike was to make a light, timeless, fast and durable bicycle that was designed for city use.”

The single speed design means it performs perfect in urban environment as you have rarely enough speed to need to change gears. In case of need to accelerate you can always rely on the handlebar – Alta Bike’s signature feature – giving you the power to fight hills.

They wanted something back to basics and they succeeded. The result of the collaboration is a great singlespeed city racer with a weight of only 9.2 kg, available in various colors.

The Alta Bike has been bought by the Norwegian National Museum as a part of their permanent collection.

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Jar Lamp

London and Avignon based design office Noon Studio, founded by Gautier Pelegrin and Vincent Taïani, created the Jar Lamp. The Jar Lamp is a lathed wooden table lamp with rotating lids which act as switches to control the intensity of the light. The result is a fantastic minimalist furniture piece. With the light switched on it is almost a magic box preserving a bright light.

Like the other products by Noon Studio the Jar Lamp is designed and produced with philosphy of using honest materials, simplicity of execution, forward thinking and spatial awareness.

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YOUTOO

This prototype wardrobe, named YOUTOO, is designed by Berlin based Atelier Haußmann – founded by the brothers Andreas and Rainer Haußmann. Made from powder coated steel YOUTOO seems like a robust and multi functional furniture piece.

Time will tell when this prototype will be in production and available in Atelier Haußmanns shop.

YOUTOO is nominated for the interior innovation award at IMM Cologne 2010 – starting today until January 24th.

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BOX stool & coffee table

Based in Lausanne – Switzerland and Brussels – Belgium design studio BIG-GAME – founded by Grégoire Jeanmonod, Elric Petit and Augustin Scott de Martinville – designed BOX stool and coffee table.

Inspired by the pleating techniques used in the cardboard and aluminium industry the Box stool can be folded away like a cardboard box. A hole is pierced in the centre of the seat making it is easy to carry. The BOX stool is made from  Folded lacquered aluminium available in yellow, medium blue, light blue and dark blue.

Making the BOX family complete BIG-GAME created a Coffee table. Aswell made from folded lacquered aluminium, available in light blue, light grey, black and yellow.

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IN lamp

IN lamp is a unique lamp concept by Russian based industrial designer Katherine Semenko. Organic shaped and with a touch of art deco IN lamp is made from a closed material with some kind of reptile skin pattern on one side and the light shining from the reverse side.

The Lamp as alive organism.
The front is dense closed material.
The Reverse side – light.
The Reverse side as a soul…

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