Benjamin Hubert who took part in London‘s 100% Design show is a young talented designer based in UK. Among other products he has presented this ceramic fruit bowl, simply functional and very beautiful! This earthenware has lace graphic and it will be available from spring 2008.
ceramic fruit bowl with integrated banana tree
Moscow based automobile designer (and teacher) Slava Saakyan says ‘I try to make things I’d love to own’. And clearly his love is automobile and he has made these incredible furniture automobile style.
This bed has MP3-radio and music system with 4 speakers.
Two glasses are connected in such a fashion through a rotating mechanism that if you rotate one, other will move too and each time the table will have a new design.
These geometrical composition extend functionality and add aesthetics to space.
This motion table is designed by Indian (globe trotting) designer Abhinav Dapke.
If nature starts manufacturing products what kind of goods she would line out.
She would see everything with green eyes?
When the sun runs away she would light up this lamp!
Provide you with this shopping cart.
It might be raining, it might be hot so; says she, take care!
All the spoilers should be scared away!
And she would not forget to nurture herself!
(images courtesy Go Green nursery pvt ltd’s booklet.)
The students of Industrial Design Centre, IIT, Mumbai has developed these two very user friendly sample products mainly for special people.
Sound album-SvAna for visually challenged
Jellow-a happiness device for cerebral palsy affected child
a communication gadget
SvAna is a hand-held device by which the visually challenged can record, organize, edit and share memories. It has digital recording, bluetooth and memory card.
SvAna is Sanskrit for sonorous sound.
This product is developed by student’s team of Rashmin Raj, Ravi Krishna and Visvanath K.
Jellow facilitates nonverbal interaction on the basis of six basic emotions. The form of the jellow has soft and cuddly feel that elicits emotional responses based on touch.
Jellow is an attempt to bridge the gap in communication between those affected by cerebral palsy and those not.
The basis of the product is an Emotional Language Protocol (elp).
Students core team of Anchal Kumar, Samraat Sardesai, Peter Joseph, Antara Hazarika and Preeti Thakkar has worked diligently to develop this product.
(Edit: The Jellow is still in conceptual form and in a year’s time it will be produced.)
Wanting to know design behind a design
Wanting to know what goes behind a beautiful design, the screw behind the wheel; I went to search for something about industry. I came back fascinated with these stunning industrial photographs instead. These are works of very talented Indian photographers: Rohinton Irani, Sanat Ghosh, Ian Pereira , K L Raja and Studio Neon.
image courtesy Rohinton Irani
image courtesy Sanat Ghosh
image via Rohinton Irani
image via Ian Pereira
