Congratulations to Min Kyu Choi and his rather brilliant folding plug design…. after we featured the awe-inspiring, yet delightfully simple, concept in July last year, the London based student went on to achieve all sorts of high profile accolades, including picking up a Gold award at September’s International Design Excellence Award, being a finalist in January’s Wallpaper Design Awards and topping it all last night by fending off competition from the likes of Alexander McQueen’s final collection to be presented with this year’s Brit Insurance Design Award by Antony Gormley…. The best news is that Choi’s intelligent slice of remarkable product design will go into production later this year.
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Min Kyu Choi’s Folding Plug
genius invention wins the Brit Insurance Design Award 2010...
March 17th, 2010
Design Hotels™ & Wallpaper* iPhone Apps
travel guides go chic on the app store....
January 14th, 2010
If there’s one thing that’s rather disappointed us with iPhone applications, it’s surely been the undeniable dearth of apps that ooze in vogue sophistication… consequently, the recent news of apps from two of the world’s leading lifestyle brands has gone someway to unfurling our brow. Rather similar in terms of content, Design Hotels™ and Wallpaper* have both released city guides with a difference… the difference, of course, being that the recommended hotels, bars, restaurants and sights are all, reassuringly elegant, stylish and achingly hip. Available for Amsterdam, Miami, Copenhagen, Berlin, Paris, London, Sao Paulo, Vienna, Shanghai and Barcelona, Design Hotels™ guides are a collaboration with the culture savvy ‘Unlike City Guides’ and include regularly updated information on shops, clubs, bars, eating out, arts and culture, sights and experiences, and of course, hotels. An events calendar promises much, but as yet appears rather desolate…. let’s hope the promise of regular, seamless updates is a genuine one…..
Wallpaper*’s guides are essentially an app version of their hugely successful, and rather brilliant, Phaidon City Guides, with the added benefit of knowing how far the featured shops, bars, hotels and sights are from your current location. Currently available for their top 10 selling guides, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome and Tokyo, Wallpaper*’s guides include a suitably high-brow ‘architour’ along with insiders tips, brilliant boutiques, iconic landmarks, neighbourhood guides and city escapes… at £2.39 a pop, if you’re travelling to one of said cities, they’re an essential purchase.
Moritz Waldemeyer’s “Home Disco”
the most outrageous iPod dock you've ever danced on....
January 6th, 2010
Having worked with top architects and fashion designers such as Ron Arad, Zaha Hadid and Hussein Chalayan and produced stage-wear for the likes of Bono, Rhianna and (ahem) Mika, German-born, London-based Moritz Waldemeyer is simply one of the most groundbreaking designers of his kind. Fusing his background in engineering with thoughtful, innovative design, his work with LEDs and lasers see him as the first port of call for designers and artists looking for concepts with a digital twist. When Wallpaper* approached him to design an object with the brief ‘Home Disco’, he responded with typical flair, producing this magical, awe-inspiring electro coffee-table. Sleek, retro coffee-table by day, the unit, which accommodates speakers, an iPod dock and…. wait for it…. a ‘Haze Machine’, fires into life when the lights go down, beaming out Waldemeyer’s trademark lasers to form a wonderfully futuristic dancing cage…… if this is the future, we’re sure glad we’re living it!
COTEetCIEL make the sort of laptop sleeves you would expect of a company based in Paris. Sleek and simplistic with an air of arrogance, quality materials with innovative, utilitarian design. COTEerCIEL products are for the modern day nomad, the ever-moving entrepreneur and this functional yet beautifully designed rucksack is the latest addition to their collection. With it’s body fabric manufactured from recycled PET bottles, large inner compartment with separate integrated laptop sleeve and ergonomic design, the COTEetCIEL laptop rucksack is the perfect addition to your on-the-move office. The rucksack can accomodate both 15″ and 17″ laptops and is available online from October.
We recently had the pleasure of receiving a beautifully crafted handmade Macbook sleeve from UK based fabric designer Sarah Stone. Stone’s ‘TillyMoss’ Macbook sleeves are the product of her educational background in fine art, fashion and technology and the experience of making her own clothes and products since the age of 12. Now living with her fiance and child she produces a collection of quirky, high quality Macbook sleeves that are lined with a protective interfacing and water repellant soft fleece and finished with high quality linen and designer fabrics to create unique, original and eye-catching designs that give your cherished Macbook the loving it deserves.
The guys over at Hard Graft never seem to put a foot wrong, and their latest collection of sleeves, cases and pouches is no exception. Much like the 2UNFOLD collection we covered back in November, the ‘New High‘ range is skilfully hand crafted from the finest European materials, pure new wool felt and premium aniline cow leather, and the originality in it’s design is second to none. The pictured ‘Y apple laptop sleeve’ is the pick of the bunch with it’s vintage gentleman’s trouser braces inspired Y shaped straps which embrace a magazine or the brilliant add-on pouch with external leather iPhone holder. If you’ve recently bagged yourself a new aluminum MacBook then you won’t be able to resist this…….
Since the Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin dropped onto the scene last year, no iPod docking device has come close to it in terms of style and indeed sound. Trust uber-designer Philippe Starck then to have a pretty good stab at knocking the zeppelin off the top then. His speakers, which have been designed by mobile technology experts Parrot, are deliciously thin, light and incredibly stylish but also pack a punch thanks to their downward-firing woofer which apparently bounces sound from your walls, meaning you can place them pretty much anywhere within the room and achieve a kind of audio-nirvana, unless of course your listening to Coldplay that is. Bluetooth and WiFi enabled, the speakers are capable of streaming music from computers and mobile phones meaning that it’s not just your iPhone or iPod that can act as the audio source.
Berlin based designer Rainer Spehl develops furniture, interiors and exhibition stands for the likes of Nike, Stone Island, Dior and Gucci and seemingly still manages to create in his spare time, designing furniture and products for private clients along with his own collection, which includes this fabulously stylish piece. Spehl’s wooden MacBook case with leather lining and magnetic closing device perfectly juxtaposes the elegance of classic wooden product design with the beauty of Apple’s modern technology, this is not a laptop case for a PC. Available for Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro 15inch, you will need to get in touch directly with Spehl to purchase, we think this probably means that it’s pretty expensive, but we’re more than sure it’s worth it.
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