Disappointments Diary 2013 is a week-to-view appointments diary with a series of disappointing twists. The pocket-sized diary includes reminders of notable deaths, a weekly demotivational proverb, contact pages for People Who Never Call and People You Owe Money, and Pages Unintentionally Left Blank.
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‘Bichos’ is Martinho Pita’s first adventure in the product-design world. Educated as an architect, he learned the process of transforming wood into lamps from his father, who is an artist. Thus the Portuguese architect decided to design a series of lamps, reusing a number of branches, obtained from pruning.
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Brooklyn-based artist Stephen Shaheen explores the porous borders between art, design and architecture. His Headlight series are hand-sculpted from a modeling pulp he creates using recycled paper, cotton and denim, along with electrical components.
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The 365 Knitting Clock by Sirene Elise Wilhelmsen is stitching the time as it passes by. It is knitting 24 hours a day and one year at the time, showing the physical representation of time as a creative and tangible force.
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Marcus Beck and Simon Macro are Freshwest, a design firm based in Pembrokeshire West Wales, which embraces both experimental and functional design and is driven by their desire to realize ideas. Having know each other since their childhood days and sharing the same design ideals Marcus and Simon combined to establish Freshwest in 2005.
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Do you drink a cup of coffee over the newspaper every now and then? Listen to music while reading? Have a meal in front of your computer? If so you are in good company as these things became general habits in busy modern life.
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Designer Bertjan Pot created these masks out of a material experiment. He wanted to find out if by stitching a rope together he could make a large flat carpet. Instead of flat, the samples got curvy.
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The Pop-up corner light by Well Well Designers is delivered in an envelope. The lamp is constructed from a sheet of paper, lined with polyphane. The paper produces a a square, triangular or circular module when folded at a 90° angle.
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When I think about camping, uncomfortable mattresses, dirt and mosquito bites come into my mind, but I’ve always been dreaming of a tree house since I was a little kid. The Cocoon Tree Tent takes care of that problem and designed this spherical mobile tree tent for camping, which can travel with you and be hung up into the trees.
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Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, the company Straight Line Designs owned by Judson Beaumont is not only an ordinary furniture design and manufacturing company.
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The world of iGNANT expresses itself in terms of ideas and creative output. By means of the internet esthetic standards have been spreading faster than ever before, and the conclusions drawn from new ideas are within a new range now.
