Yanko Design - Latest Posts |  |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2009 05:31 AM PST Show of hands, how many of you played hopscotch? I’m not ashamed to admit I still do much to my neighbor’s dismay because chalked up sidewalks somehow irritate people. It washes off people! To insatiate my “tech” side, designer Hye-Lim Jeon created the Dream Beam, a device that projects the all too familiar four-squares and hopscotch courts without the mess of chalk. It’s old school play done the 21st century way (hehe, it rhymes). Still, there’s something satisfying about drawing your own chalk line. Designer: Hye-Lim Jeon        |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2009 05:25 AM PST YD won’t be able to attend this year but that won’t stop us from reporting on THE international furnishing show. The event runs from January 19-25 with public viewings on the last two days. WHO’S GOING? Send us your photos, show us what you like from the show’s 1000+ plus exhibitors. Get featured on YD and totally receive credit for it! Event: imm Cologne 2009 imm cologne     |
| Luminous Surfaces For Your Experiential Needs Posted: 14 Jan 2009 05:12 AM PST The Cielos modular lighting system designed by Billings Jackson Design for Zumtobel has won a coveted GOOD DESIGN Award 2008, conferred by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. Cielos provides a simple method of designing, installing and maintaining luminous surfaces. The shallow profile 'plug and play' units are elegant and with coloured light and video-compatible LED models now available, the creative scope is limitless. Cielos can be used in a range of applications from harmonious backdrops to dynamic light shows. Particularly suited to the high-quality retail market, it replaces expensive bespoke installations and enables designers and end-users to customise an environment with ease. Cielos won the prestigious 'Design Plus' and the 'Lights of the Future' awards at its launch at Light + Building Frankfurt in April 2007 and the Industrial Design Forum's iF Award – an internationally renowned benchmark of design excellence. With these many awards racking up, I’d love to test drive one of these babies in my retail store. Billings Jackson (love the name), call me up! Designer: Billings Jackson     |
| Engineered to The Nth Degree 360º Posted: 14 Jan 2009 05:08 AM PST Jaebeom Jeong is back. His original grid chair elicited so much reaction, we were happy to see he submitted another similar concept called the R60. Both chairs are a part of the “grid series” but this one embodies the idea and repetition of a circle. It has the same exposed skeletal structure with much less complication. This one is cleaner and doesn’t scream “I made this in ‘AutoCAD.’” The whole piece measures 1760 x 1760 x 900(h), made with stainless steel, poly carbonate sheeting, complete with an ash-black stained finish. This reminds me, some time ago we were tossing around the idea of having a brick and mortar Yanko Design gallery - a studio space of sorts. A place where many of these ideas, concepts, and prototypes could be showcased in an interactive environment. Imagine the R60 in the middle of the room, coffee in hand, chatting with like minds about the future of design. I so approve. Designer: Jaebeom Jeong     |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2009 01:19 AM PST Life isn't simple anymore. You work minimum two jobs; you multitask and make the most of a situation. Yes, life sucks…so is it fair that we make our electronics and gadgets do only one job at a time? No ways! They too need to labor like us, give us the maximum benefit of their existence. We don't want only an iPod dock; we want it to have speakers and may be some light. Gottcha! This one has it all! Designer: Sang-Hoon Lee     |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2009 01:00 AM PST Presenting… the Tri3. It will solve all your problems. It can do everything. The Tri3 is a garbage… that can open in three ways - DON’T FREAK OUT NOW! Stay with me here! It’s not some alien technology, some futuristic freakshow horror android, no; it’s just simple, straight up ergonomics. Designers Guisset Constance & Cid Grégory have a treat for you. It is the space saver. It is the Tri3. In their own words…
Easy enough? I can’t help but be skeptical of this garbage being truly space-saving since it has to extend in more than one way if I’d like to open more than one container. However, I do love me some floor pedals… Designers: Guisset Constance & Cid Grégory     |
| Posted: 14 Jan 2009 12:30 AM PST For his masters diploma project conducted in Citroen’s Design Center (ADN), designer Antonin Maire D’Eglise set out to really break some new ground with his C-BIONIC concept. The hypothesis of the project is that in the near future, mankind will have depleted the natural resources so heavily relied upon in the automotive industry. This will lead way to a second renaissance, where de-materialization and genetic science will be used as building blocks in a more humanistic and poetic world. A genetically modified tree is used as the chassis of the vehicle, and the rest of the body is made from highly biodegradable materials. The tree was chosen not just as a symbol of environmental conscience, but because it would require little engineering, and it is renewable. Ironically, instead of creating pollution the tree absorbs carbon dioxide and emits oxygen. Each C-BIONIC has been designed to have a minimal material loss lifecycle of just 3 years, after which it returns to the earth. The only part salvaged is the electric engine which is reused in the next vehicle. Designer: Antonin Maire D’Eglise     |
| A New Use For That Old Fishing Line Posted: 14 Jan 2009 12:00 AM PST If you have an anxiety about chaotic arrays of tangled knots, then this hanging light from Francois Azambourg isn’t for you. If however, you enjoy watching your friends drunkenly stumble into things, become entangled, and possibly asphyxiate themselves, then boy are you in the right place. Believably called Brindilles, this 3 foot wide fixture hangs down 8½ feet and makes use of 108 LEDs to flash in the forest of fiber optic cable. I’m also going to go out on a limb and say this isn’t cat friendly either. Available at Ligne Roset Designer: Francois Azambourg     |
| You are subscribed to email updates from Yanko Design To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
Inbox too full?  Subscribe to the feed version of Yanko Design in a feed reader. | |
| If you prefer to unsubscribe via postal mail, write to: Yanko Design, c/o Google, 20 W Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
No comments:
Post a Comment