[above] Lumière Flame (shown) and Lumière Abatjour |Giovanni Alessi Anghini and Gabriele Chiave | GAA Design Farm |
Alessi | 2010-11
On 15 December the 2012 Good Design Award winners were announced. Thousands of entries were vetted to highlight the best designs based on innovation, form, materials, construction, concept, function, utility and aesthetic appeal. Select 2012 winners on this page via [ BDE ] The [ complete list ] of winners.
Lento Lounge Chair | Harry Koskinen | Friends of Industry | Artek | 2006-11
Pixel Graphic | Heather Bush, Carnegie Design Studio | Carnegie Fabric | 2010-11
Piani Lamps | Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec | Flos | 2011
minuscule Chair and Table | Cecilie Manz | Fritz Hansen | 2012
ZŌN® Max Air Purifier | Stefan Spoerl and Andrzej Loreth | Humanscale | 2011-12
Nadal Throw | Rosita Missoni | MissoniHome | 2012
Dibujo tinta | Eduardo Chillada | Nanimarquina | 1957
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1> AlessiLux |Giovanni Alessi Anghini and Gabriele Chiave | GAA Design Farm | Alessi | 2010-11
2> Floating Earth Tray | Ma Yansong, MAD Architects | Alessi SpA | 2011-11
3> Ape Aperitivo | Giulio Liacchetti Industrial Design | Alessi | 2011-12
4> Ming Tray | Zhang Standardarchitecture | Alessi | 2010-11
5> Lento Lounge Chair | Harry Koskinen | Friends of Industry | Artek | 2006-11
6> Pixel Graphic | Heather Bush, Carnegie Design Studio | Carnegie Fabric | 2010-11
7> Piani Lamps | Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec | Flos | 2011
8> D’E-light | Philippe Starck, Starck Network | Flos | 2011
9> APPS Luminaire | Jorge Herrera, | Flos | 2011- 12
10> minuscule Chair and Table | Cecilie Manz | Fritz Hansen | 2012
11> Float Sit -Stand Height-Adjustable Table | Humanscale Design Studio | Humanscale | 2012
12> ZŌN® Max Air Purifier | Stefan Spoerl and Andrzej Loreth | Humanscale | 2011-12
13> Nadal Throw | Rosita Missoni | MissoniHome | 2012
14> Dibujo tinta | Eduardo Chillada | Nanimarquina | 1957
15> Manos | Eduardo Chillada | Nanimarquina | 1995
[ good design award ] is the oldest Design Awards program organized annually by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in cooperation with the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies. The awards program covers new consumer products designed and manufactured in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America. The trademarked awards were created in Chicago in 1950 by three architects: Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. The logo was designed the same year by the late Chicago graphic designer, Mort Goldsholl.
Pour a boutique hotel lobby into a factory building*. Mix in objects from select naval hardware auctions. The one-of-a-kind Cabos Adujados Lamp made of coiled rope that’s been reclaimed from the La Boca shipyard in Buenos Aires. Creative recipe. (*) Actually, this is just one exhibit of many seen at Casa Foa 2012. Chief cook: Argentinian designer [ Silvina Descole ] [ casa foa 2012 ]
textile design and furniture manufacturing re-imagined. [ kata monus ] is a hungarian designer who specializes in textile techniques, patterns, graphic design, furniture, recycling and structures.
stool 60 | alvar aalto | artek | 1933 | click > enlarge
The 1930s marked a breakthrough decade for Alvar Aalto both as an architect and a designer. Stool 60 was first introduced to the international public at the Wood Only exhibition in London in November 1933, to rave reviews – making 2013 Stool 60’s 80th anniversary. The simple, stackable and durable wooden stool represented a new approach to furniture design, and a continuation of the brand of modernism initiated by Bauhaus. The use of wood instead of bent steel was revolutionary at the time. Aalto spent years developing the L-shaped leg at the Korhonen furniture factory. The development of Stool 60 also took several years. Aalto kept testing different technical solutions together with the experts of the factory. The result of their collaboration is a durable and modern technical solution that later on led to the creation of many other classic designs.
stool 60 | mike meiré | artek | 2012
In 1935, just a few days before the founding of Artek, the Municipal Library in Vyborg opened and Stool 60 was used for the first time in a public building. Stool 60 represents a crystallization of the values of Artek concerning the importance of technology, art and ethics. Stool 60 is the number one seller of Artek products and one of the most famous design products of the world.
Throughout 2013, Artek will introduce a series of stools, designed by well-known architects and designers, commemorating the anniversary. This month, we are featuring the stools by Mike Meiré (seen above).
Learn how these colorful stools are put together in this short video:
stool 60 | alvar aalto | artek | 1933
[ artek > stool 60 ]
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Design Democracy – From Cappellini to McDonalds – Patrick Norguet doesn’t discriminate. McDonalds hires one of Frances top creatives, Patrick Norguet to design an outdoor collection. In collaboration with the producer Alias and the fast-food giant McDonald’s, designer Patrick Norguet has designed a line of outdoor furniture as part of McDonald’s “Come” project. The furniture collection will equip terraces and outdoor spaces McDonald’s worldwide. [ patrick norguet ] [ alias ]
The design solution responds to the ‘COME’ objectives – to design, engineer, develop and install a specific turnkey modular furniture system. The collection consists of 28 pieces made of steel, hand-sanded concrete and Corian tables, chairs, benches, lamps, planters, litter bins and screen. The introduction of the collection will be in Bordeaux and northern France.
Patrick Norguet says:
“For this project, like each of my projects, I wanted to give great attention to the final use. Draw a quality space that fits into the time that meets the demands and requirements specific to McDonald’s. Not all completely outside or completely inside the terrace is experienced as an extension of the restaurant, a separate space for a different experience. It is also a major project for me because we were able to connect two worlds around the project, and thus develop products of high quality. The association with Alias, I was able to reach the level of demand that I wanted for this set consists of 28 objects. A family of tables, chairs, low chairs, lamps, planters, benches, litter bins and screen.”
“I’m lovin it.”
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Study after study shows that sitting all day long at a desk is bad for your health. It slows your metabolism, decreases your body’s ability to process sugars and fats, and even increases your chance of developing diabetes, blood clots or thrombosis. Men who sit for more than six hours a day have a 20% higher mortality rate, while women have a 40% higher rate – a factor, we might add, that can’t be counteracted by increasing your exercise. The only way to not die earlier, apparently, is simply not to sit down all day long anymore.
While newer offices are being designed for more flexible coworking environments that encourage movement, sometimes you just need to hunker down in one place and get a job done. The best solution designers are offering up so far is the standing desk. You can read more about how employees at companies like Mircrosoft, Google, the Mayo Clinic and the FBI are benefiting from a conversion to standing desks and walkstations (a slow moving treadmill-desk) in the Chicago Tribune‘s recent article.
Before committing you can test it out by working at an ironing board or countertop, but once you’re convinced consider springing for the Xtable, an adjustable height desk designed by Danish studio KiBiSi for furniture manufacturer Holmris. You can manually raise and lower Xtable with a hand crank; the two crossing legs operate much like an ironing board. It comes with a floor organizer for your papers and pens, though it really ought to come with a matching, adjustable height chair.
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With a dizzying number of options to personalize your iPad, iPhone and all of Apple’s other offspring, we’re frankly a little surprised that there aren’t more ways to customize your actual desktop computer. We’re not talking about slapping a bunch of stickers on the back, but about introducing new materials into Microsoft and Apple’s line of lovely yet cold, hard-edged metal clad computers. French entrepreneur and tech trend scouter, Julien Salanave, presaged the move – nay, mass migration – back to the handmade with Oree, a wooden keyboard that marries traditional materials and woodworking techniques with new manufacturing processes.
Salanave said he noticed that “modern technology products look very much alike, are highly impersonal, made out of eco-unfriendly materials and are designed for rapid obsolescence.” To realize his concept for a handmade wooden keyboard he brought on designer Franck Fontana, who has worked extensively with wood products since he graduated from ENSCI, and woodworker Christophe Della Signora, who began apprenticing in the craft when he was just 15-years-old. Using “cutting-edge milling technologies and timeless woodworking techniques passed down through generations of French woodcrafters and cabinetmakers,” each Oree keyboard “is crafted, polished, oil-finished and assembled by hand” in southern France.
Available in Maple and Walnut, the wireless keyboards work not only with Apple products, of course, but with any Bluetooth enabled device. When you include shipping an Oree keyboard costs about $200, but each keyboard is custom made with one of three font options (Fedra, Didot or MrsEaves) or left blank, though we’re not sure why anyone would choose that. You can also personalize your keyboard with up to 45 characters of text or an engraved background.
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Berlin-based design group osko+deichmann recently released Plot, a padded, modular seating system for the contract market. Designed for Brunner, Plot is a versatile, customizable and easy to adjust lounge system “inspired by cascaded formations in nature.” Intended for use in hotels, lobbies and airports, the system is made up of add-on units that come in three height levels – low, medium and high. The base level acts as a low-lying side table to hold purses, drinks, etc. The medium level cushions act as seats and can be raised to the next highest level to form seat backs, arm rests and area dividers. The color-blocked units make this system much more attractive than your average contract commercial seating, too. Watch this short video to see how Plot can grow or shrink to fit your space.
From Brunner:
How do we sit down while we’re travelling? Do we wait or do we work? Do we meet other people and communicate? Do we take a time-out and relax ? How private do we want to be in public spaces?
plot from Berlin-based designer duo osko+deichmann provides a contemporary response to these questions. Building on a square base module with variable seating surfaces at three levels, plot fully reinterprets the roles of arm-rests and back-rests.
Every person uses furniture in their own unique way. While sitting down, people change their posture and furniture serves a different purpose for each of us – for some it offers a spot to rest or communicate while for others it provides a temporary office space or an oasis of tranquillity. With its multilevel seating, plot allows different seating positions and encourages informal communication. plot, the modular loungescape invites people to return and interpret seating in a new way.
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