Product Design
Our articles on art and product design delve into the creative process of makers who explore and experiment with various materials and design styles. We provide a platform for these creators to showcase their work and share valuable insights on their craft.
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Product Design
This collection speaks eloquently of tonal woods and sculptural lines, inspired by the distinctive Wolo column motif—an angular column combining thick and thin elements.
Product Design, Conversations
Dive into the world of Lodes and its visionary Managing Director, Massimiliano Tosetto, exploring the company's evolution and Tosetto's lifestyle and sources of inspiration.
Product Design
The company saw in Ron Arad a figure who blends art, architecture and design. With his disruptive approach, Arad is able to uncover new realms in which objects break out of their typical typologies.
Product Design
Conceived by Chia-Ying Lee, Random Cloud is an evolution of Lodes’ Random Solo pendant, connecting multiple glass pendants to a central canopy.
Design
Shaped from a single lava stone and carved by hand, Fusina is a sculptural fire pit that delights with its intriguing organic shape, resting peacefully within any type of space, seeking to enhance the link between the object and the user.
Architecture & Interior, Design
The new collection is a blend of the old and the new, combining sun-bleached paper and old notebooks found in the founders' attics with modern design principles. The love of experimenting with different paper types and techniques is evident in this collection, featuring expressive graphic collages.
Design
The GVPO lighting collection emphasizes the industrial process and the natural properties of aluminum. The FOLIO collection is an exploration through the flexible properties of steel, acting visually as a sheet of bent paper.
Architecture & Interior, Design, Travel, Milan
Time & Style designed and produced a collection of lighting with different sizes, exclusively for K5 Tokyo. In particular, the idea of a large 120 cm-diameter lantern posed a challenge to the craftspeople, completed after repeated prototyping.
Product Design
The Hover table and floor lamps feature a lamp shade that looks as if it is detached from the base, connected seamlessly by a single cable that runs through the stem and comes out of the other end.
Lodes and Diesel Living unveil their latest collaboration - four lighting products: Magic Mushroom, Reglobe, Spring, and U.F.O.
Product Design
These pieces redefine industrial and minimalist aesthetics, showcasing the ingenuity and visual appeal of modern industrial design.
Kajsa Willner has collaborated with Olsson&Gerthel and Fogia to create an exhibition that showcases the beauty and potential in waste.
Art, Product Design, Event
The exhibition, aptly named "Crafted Potential," is a stunning display of the possibilities that exist when we reimagine residual materials as a valuable resource.
Lodes is launching its first collaboration with Ron Arad, Cono di Luce - a lamp that marries Lodes’ technical know-how with Arad’s artistic flair.
Architecture & Interior, Product Design
The result is a powerful lamp in its seemingly simple design. When turned on, the product reveals its full decorative capacity - an optical item made of light, shadows and superimpositions, the work of the Arad’s creative vision and Lodes’ ability to master and manage technology.
Emerged from a rotation of a flat circle, “Oblique” by Alessandra Hofmann reimagines how a mirror becomes a contemplative sculpture in space.
Product Design
Alessandra Hofmann is an interdisciplinary design and visual arts practice based in Basel, Switzerland focusing on sculptural objects, materiality research and spatial installations.
In Conversation with Jessica Jung, an interior and prop stylist based in London, whose work reflects her deep appreciation for the interactions between objects in an image and the surrounding space.
Architecture & Interior, Product Design, Chapter 1:Create
Continue reading to learn more about what led her down the path of becoming an interior and prop stylist, what it means to create a sense of order in a work, and her latest project, Art of Glass, created in collaboration with photographer Ian Tillotson.
Nothing perhaps embodies the essence of Time & Style quite like their Contemporary Japanese Light collection. A graceful selection of andon and chochin creates a gentle atmosphere in a space.
People & Studios, Product Design, Architecture & Interior
Thanks to the use of washi paper, allowing the lanterns to cast a beautifully soft and inviting light, and the strength of the advanced wood craftsmanship which goes into their design, the lanterns — true to Time & Style form — are soft to the eye yet robust, and of course, seeped in a rich history.
Through a dark-hued perspective - transversing the remedial trek of Herman Ma.
People & Studios, Product Design, Interviews
Celebrating local Japanese heritage, or “regional roots,” Time & Style fuses sleek modernity with Japanese craftsmanship
People & Studios, Product Design, Architecture & Interior
Offering robust yet visually striking handcrafted products, Time & Style embodies a unique blend of beauty, functionality, and history, borne from the raw materials of Japan. As well as linking past customs with the present and the natural world with everyday life, Time & Style draw inspiration and wisdom from our ancestors.
Kateryna Sokolova designs the “Flock” Lounge Chair and “Freyja” Coffee Tables for Ukrainian Design Company NOOM
People & Studios, Product Design
The just-launched collection called “Flock” draws on the idea that home is a place of comfort, sanctuary, and gathering and should be filled with personalised, character-rich, and eye-catching statement objects.
Lodes has teamed up with Needs Studio to launch Tidal, a ring-shaped ceiling lamp that references the tide and celestial bodies.
Architecture & Interior, Product Design
Tidal’s fluid, oval design mimics the motion of the waves and the change dictated by the tide, with one end wider than the other, depicting high and low tide. Its enduring curves appear differently to viewers depending on their position under the lamp, evoking intrigue and mystery.
The Dancer Chair by Nüüd Studio draws on the optimism of reconnecting, embracing, and dancing together again
Architecture & Interior, Product Design, Events & Exhibitions
The Dancer chair is designed as a specific installation and object for the MPavilion held in the summer of 2021-2022, located in the Alexandra Gardens of Melbourne. The design is a direct response to the pavilion, designed by Italian architecture firm MAP Studio, and the pavilion is a unique commission celebrating ideas, culture, people, arts and design.
Lodes has renewed its collaboration with Norwegian architecture and design studio, Snøhetta, to expand the Volum collection.
Architecture & Interior, Product Design
Following the launch of the Volum pendant lamp last year, the collection has been revisited to include new ceiling, wall and table lamps, comprising a series of glass lamps that are poetically simple yet complex in its technically driven solution.
Argot Studio x SSENSE select
Product Design
Argot Studio is launching its first collection on SSENSE this September. Featuring bio-sourced and recycled materials, these versatile, sculptural pieces are intended to fit your interior and last a lifetime.
Mellow Mushrooms
Product Design
Jorge Suárez-Kilzi was born in Venezuela to immigrant parents of Spanish and Syrian descent. His collection of works is signed under his mother’s last name, Kilzi, which is also often used to describe a person who works with plaster and chalk.
Existence of Abstraction
Art & Culture, Exhibitions
Object Momento is delighted to announce the Existence of Abstraction, a solo exhibition of sculptures by the Korean ceramic artist, Lee Nuri, her first show with the gallery and the first in China.
Atelier Axo
Architecture & Interior, Product Design
atelier axo is a cross disciplinary design and architecture practice based in Copenhagen. Founded in 2019 by Rose Hermansen and Caroline Sillesen, the atelier specialises in small scale architecture, interior, and furniture design.
FAINA Gallery of live Ukrainian design
Product Design, Art & Culture
FAINA, a collection of furniture, lighting, and decor, rooted in Ukrainian cultural heritage. Brought to life by the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine, FAINA nurtures its connection to land and ethnic roots, starting a new wave on the global design scene — “live design”.
Breaking Paradigms - Siete Studio
Product Design
Siete Studio was founded in 2020 in Mexico City and Australia by Gerardo Cordova, Alexa Fernandez, and Diego Escobedo. It arises from a multidisciplinary fusion that seeks to break paradigms and link directly and uniquely with users, creating a concept that we like to call spatial and sculptural design, which is based on creating a direct link between users, spaces, and meaning.
LUNAR OBJECT by kutarq studio
Product Design
LUNAR OBJECT landed as a meteorite during a time when the world seemed to have stopped spinning. It came as the crystallisation of a cluster of feelings, ideas, observations, and experiences that had resonated throughout the years and now had become too loud to be ignored.
Challenging Familiar Perceptions
Product Design
The Corner Collection presents a series of seating forms reminiscent of gable-roofed houses. With a unique artisanal sensibility, this collection reimagines a child’s drawing of a house, transforming these simple lines into a playful yet functional object through the use of metal and wood.
Between Past and Present -another bureau of design
Product Design, Exhibitions
Immersed in references from the past, another bureau of design has created the Untitled Drink Cabinet as a piece that highlights the cultural significance of tea tables in a Moroccan household, taking shape in a contemporary form and material.
Refined Minimalism - Thom Fougere Studio
Product Design
Thom Fougere Studio works within the fields of furniture and product design, architecture, interiors, and creative direction. His work have been exhibited internationally at design fairs in Milan, Stockholm, New York, Montreal, and Toronto.
Unrestrained Expression
People & Studios, Product Design, New Norm Magazine Issue 03
Birgitte Due Madsen’s work evolves around craftmanship and quality. Her work is produced in her own studio and by herself. With a constant awareness and humility toward functionality and quality her professional integrity lies in the fascination of the elongated project which examines elements such as materiality and aesthetics and which allows the project to develop in abstract form before it is formalized.
Root of Identity
Product Design
Meet Alejandro Valencia, founder of Dear Durango, an architecture and design studio, seeking to create projects that stand out for their pure and functional character. “I consider the relationship between architecture and objects fundamental; design is a living process of dialogue that links users with their environments.”
Out of the Woods - In Conversation with Co-Founder Patricia Peinador of Foresta
People & Studios , Product Design
FORESTA was born from a place of care with the deepest desire to change the world. In 2019, they began working with a designer to develop their own products - furniture and interior accessories. We caught up with co-founder Patricia Peinador to learn more about FORESTA and its sustainable approach to design and manufacturing.
Feast for the Senses
People & Studios , Product Design
Bonni Bonne is a design studio founded by Emelie Ivarsson and Shalony van Stralendorff - born out of a joint passion and fascination for nature, gastronomy, and presence of everyday aesthetics.
Sustainability in Furniture
People & Studios , Product Design
We had the pleasure of speaking to founder of TAKT, Henrik Lorensen, to learn more about TAKT and its sustainable approach to design and manufacturing.
Endless Virtues
Product Design
AD Miller is a Los Angeles based creative studio founded by architect and designer Adam Miller. The studio’s work spans from architecture and interiors to sculptures, lighting, and homeware products.
Cosmos, Time, and Movement
People & Studios , Art & Culture
A lifelong exploration, Turbina cultivates a dialogue; a constant and evolving narrative that is rooted in all areas of our being – a way of life and understanding.
10 Questions with Samuel Sparrow
People & Studios , Product Design
This week, we spoke to Samuel Sparrow, a potter and maker based in Scotland, where we had the opportunity to learn more about his background, design process and experiences while working as a creative in Scotland.
The Affordance Series
Product Design
The Affordance Series is an extensive family of stainless-steel furnishings, designed to induce human behaviour and psychology. Through this collection, designers, niceworkshop hope to encourage users in contemplating the ‘interactions between furniture and people’, a relationship unconsciously induced into our daily lives.
Anna Maria Øfstedal Eng
Product Design
Inspired by morphing shapes in nature, and with a desire to set form to imagination, the emerging Norwegian designer Anna Maria Øfstedal Eng, creates abstract objects that expresses quirky aesthetics with an organic design language. With an intuitive approach to the material she works with, Øfstedal Eng, develops objects that lie between the borders of applied art and sculpture.
Slow Living
People & Studios , Product Design
In this interview, Vivian Hung, the founder of WOOL, chats with us about Scandinavian designs and brands, the importance of retail, and tips on creating a stylish, contemporary home.
Instruments of Time
People & Studios , Product Design, New Norm Magazine Issue 04
We caught up with founders of Instrmnt, Pete and Ross, who spoke to us about their love for watches, the evolution of their brand and what prompted their foray into furniture design.
Vessel of Disparity
Product Design
A collaboration between BeCandle and The Grey Green, designed by Hong Chong Ip from MO-Design, comes a work titled “Vase Candle”.
Ren by Poppy Lawman
Product Design
Ren is an exploration into the modern cleansing ritual. An exploration and re-imagining that begins with an act that we currently do countless times a day; the simplest and humbleness of acts, that of handwashing.
10 Questions with Karina Klages
People & Studios , Product Design
Karina Klages Ceramics stands for fine tea ceramics, inspired by traditional Japanese vessels, the technique of wood firing, and nature. The artist dares to interpret Japanese tea ceramics by further developing traditional forms of origin and combining them with a rough surface or a spontaneous glaze impression.
Flexible Order - The Pedestal Series by Luka Yasukawa
Product Design
In his latest furniture collection ‘Pedestal Series’, Japan-based spatial and furniture designer Luka Yasukawa explores the interrelation between object recognition and functionality.
Sirimiri
Product Design
Sirimiri is a British product design company offering lifestyle products to conscious consumers. With backgrounds in high-end property and Interior Design, the founders use their experience to design and produce products that are luxurious and sustainable.
Whimsical Realism
Product Design
Lameice Abu Aker a multidisciplinary designer based in Jerusalem. Interested in the intersection between interior design and art, and aims to create contemporary pieces through working with Palestinian craftsmen and artisans from different areas in Palestine.
Belonging and Being
People & Studios , Art & Culture
Rose de Nour (Giorgia Piu) is an artisan, earth artist and ceramist. Born in Rome with a Mediterranean soul from Sardinia and Southern Italy, her roots disclose a love for craftsmanship, design, arts, and earth which has been passed from generation to generation.
Looking Through Voids
People & Studios , Product Design
Hayden Allison Richer is a ceramic artist residing in Detroit, Michigan. Her interest lies in the mirroring and reflecting of pairings and voids through the dense visual language of solid cast hydrocal.