Design Drift’s Fly Light is Alive with Illumination
Perhaps no other class of animals shows as much variation in size, shape, and general aspect as Aves. A quick look at bird-inspired products we’ve reviewed on 3rings reveals everything from an elegant...
View ArticleHair Chair Designed by Baron & Baron Re-envisions Grande Papilio
Since I’ll be sinking my teeth into the Grande Papilio Chair later this week, I thought I’d introduce you to the cloaked versions so lovingly created for the London Design Festival. If imitation is the...
View ArticleLive at Design Miami: Maarten Baas Named Designer of the Year
Design Miami named Maarten Baas Designer of the Year this 2009, which fulfills my belief that The Netherlands is plotting to take over the world, one piece of design at a time. You’ve probably seen...
View ArticleMarcus Tremonto and Moss Make the Most of Paper and Light
Marcus Tremonto of Treluce Studios is at it again—and then some. Lately familiar to 3rings readers for his “>Are You Positive?” series of lights made of illuminated paper, the NYC-based...
View ArticleJanez Suhadolc’s Chair Lajt
Consider yourselves lucky, 3rings readers, because this post constitutes a couple of firsts for the site: 1. First featured Slovenian designer; and 2. First use of the term, “ekphrastic.” Number 1 is...
View ArticleWrecking Ball Light by Studio Job
Here’s a juicy bit of copy that might sound familiar to perennial 3rings readers, especially come December: “one of very few destinations in London that showcases pioneering design-art, the Carpenters...
View ArticleAt NeoCon: Nayer Kazemi Water Art
Nayer Kazemi’s impressive collection of water-themed art objects gives designers/architects an entry into a whole new dimension in conceptualization of space. Presented in the artist’s gallery as...
View ArticleLive at NeoCon: Design Standing Still
I’d like to point everyone to Design Standing Still, an extraordinarily elegant installation by Harrington College of Design. Maybe it’s because I am somewhat fresh out of school myself (I studied...
View ArticleIcon Outlook: Zaha’s Aqua Table
If any designer’s work exudes an easily recognizable aesthetic, it is that of Zaha Hadid. Her streamlined shapes and free-flowing forms have made her work remarkably iconic. The Aqua Table, a large...
View ArticleAt Bklyn Designs: Eric Johnston Wall Sculptures
Eric Johnston immediately captured my attention with his website’s homepage, featuring a photograph of him with his dog, a Dane/Hound mix with the moniker of Milo, whose coat is surely worthy of...
View ArticleRomancing the Wall
Plain and Ordinary Wall: I’ve met someone new. I think I’ve met my true love – Modular Arts. Over time, you have become quite boring and complacent even though I have tried countless times to perk you...
View ArticleHaffsteinn Juliusson’s “In Between Lightnings”
One thing I can say about product designer Hafsteinn Juliusson is that we haven’t seen his like on 3rings before. This is true not only in regards to his nationality (Icelandic), his production...
View ArticleThe Zaishu Stool Is Green and Gorgeous
You’ll remember that last week we examined how a burgeoning Australian technology to process a sustainable crop resulted in a >House Made of Hemp stateside in Asheville, NC. Today we’re going back...
View ArticleGreat Sound Just Got Better with Acousticpearls by Kvadrat
Have you dreamed of having a bookshelf that opens into a secret chamber or a crazy big safe hidden behind a famous piece of art? For some reason or another we are fascinated with home interior facades...
View ArticleCarbon 22: Aerospace Engineering Makes Art
An aerospace engineer turned product designer, Dario Antonioni, founder of design lab Orange 22, has used aeronautical concepts to develop a line that exemplifies the fusion of technology and art. With...
View ArticleKa-Lai Chan’s Selfportrait Reveals Knotty (Naughty) Psyche
If you based a psychoanalytic examination on the individual work of any designer, you’d think the world was inhabited by crazies. Such is the case with the chair known as Selfportrait, the brainchild...
View ArticleA Canvas Beneath Your Feet: Pulkra’s Artistic Resin Floors
Have you ever seen those street performers whose specialty is chalk drawings? These intrepid souls spend hours crafting visual trickery upon the most horizontal—and least forgiving—of canvases. The...
View ArticleFormer Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh presents the Mutato Rug Collection
If you haven’t heard of Mark Mothersbaugh, either you were born sometime after 1980, or—like me—you just assumed that there were no bonafide individual personalities hiding beneath the grotesquely...
View ArticleTakeshi Miyakawa’s Holey Chair
Designer Takeshi Miyakawa sort of took the long way around to a career in product design. After studying architecture at Tokyo Science University, he did four years hard time as a construction...
View ArticleTakeshi Miyakawa’s Holey Chair
Designer Takeshi Miyakawa sort of took the long way around to a career in product design. After studying architecture at Tokyo Science University, he did four years hard time as a construction...
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