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Financial Crisis And Design

17/05/2012 DesignFlute 2 Comments

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Spread 10 y by Antonio Maria Privitera

There are so many ways to get inspired but financial crisis!?! Have you ever come across a product, a piece of furniture inspired by prevailing economic condition?

The inspiration for this magazine rack is financial crisis! Yes!

The financial crisis of Italy – 10 year Spread (bund 10y – related to government bond yield) comes to life in the form of this wooden magazine holder which involves the elements of news and now graph.

This is not just a magazine rack it’s a statement, makes you think.

A truly historical piece!

It is handmade by Zana Lab and designed by Antonio Maria Privitera @ Studio Inesistente.

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Yet Another Origami Table

30/04/2012 DesignFlute 1 Comment

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Table Origami

Designer: Olga Kryukova

This is one of the most stunning origami inspired table I have ever seen!

Origami is not new to Olga and Olga is not new to DesignFlute. You can find her on DesignFlute here. Young and very talented Olga Kryukova’s designs put my mood in singing mode!

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The Tale Of Beedle The Needle

20/04/2012 DesignFlute 1 Comment

Beedle

Designer: Hojoon Lim

Did you ever think about color of a sewing needle?

It is so small, the hole in it is smaller yet and then it is colored in silver! Great color and brilliant way to make it transparent! There can’t be more innovative way to stress a sewer, a crafter, a user!

How many times you have lost it? How much time you have wasted searching for it?

How many times you have experienced a blur trying to insert the thread through the eye of the needle?

Are you not tired of the color of the needle? Do you know many crafters color code their felt needles?

But now all this would be changed.

Designer Hojoon Lim has come up with the idea of a beedle, a simple ingenious way to make our life comfortable by answering all the above needs. (I hear you are muttering under breath which sounds like this: why I didn’t think of this before!)

A needle + luminous colors + bee as inspiration = Beedle

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Light And Vase

03/08/2011 DesignFlute 3 Comments

Kala – floor lamp by Studio Mimesis

(material: decorative concrete, steel rodes, polyester)

Light it or vase it.

Both ways I simply love it.

The Kala lamp is designed by Studio Mimesis.

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Of Peacocks And Chandeliers

13/07/2011 DesignFlute Leave a comment

Peacock love – chandelier by Eva Menz Design

Was peacock’s majestic beauty ever so lightly captured?

This is the story of how an illustration got transformed into an elegant chandelier. At Eva Menz design artist Shanu Walpita’s illustration is embroidered in white leather with silver thread. Few peacock feathers, glass tube and silver chain later an exquisite chandelier is born.