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What We Saw // NYC Design Week 2017

What We Saw // NYC Design Week 2017

Every year, The DesignBloc takes a trip to New York and immerses into one of the the greatest weeks in the world of design: New York Design Week! ICFF features what’s best and what’s next in contemporary design, luxury interiors and high end furniture. Extraordinary styles by top international furniture brands and emerging new talent highlight unique furnishings, seating, wall covering, carpeting, accessories, lighting, kitchen, bath, outdoor furniture and more. ICFF takes ov

Top 5 New Apps for Designers and Urban Planners...You want it? There's an App for That.

Who doesn’t love a good app? Well, Urban Planners and Designers today is your day with the arrival of 5 new APPS. Check out the brief descriptions below: 1. StreetMix Giving you the ability to redesign a street instantly without the hassle of political channels, community meetings or extensive planning and devising hunched over maps. Don’t fret yet, it’s not an actual data-driven planning tool. 2. WideNoise Allows users the ability to track noise pollution across an entire

Breaking the Surface: An Interactive Ceiling

Breaking the Surface: An Interactive Ceiling

Scandinavian Design Group, one of Norway’s oldest graphic design studios, has just created an interactive installation for Norway’s branch of Lundin Petroleum, Sweden’s largest oil company. The installation went live at a Scandinavian energy conference. But when Lundin asked Scandinavian Design Group for a proposal for their booth, they proposed something that actually isn’t a booth at all: An undulating ceiling of honey-colored tubes that would rhythmically move in response

Step Aside Trees, We Have A New Leaf

Step Aside Trees, We Have A New Leaf

A graduate from the Royal College of Art has claimed to have developed a silk leaf that could create oxygen for space travel and make the air better here on Earth. Julian Melchiorri, along with the silk lab from Tufts University, is responsible for this new idea. The leaf is created from a mix of protein extracted from silk and chloroplasts and when exposed to light and water, the leaf supposedly acts just like our friends already on the trees and produces oxygen. Currently,

Loop de Loop

Loop de Loop

William Pedersen, that’s right, one of the names behind Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), staffed his own booth at the ICFF and presented his new furniture collection titled “Loop de Loop.” His new furniture series features a set of chairs made with curved carbon-steel forms to resemble a body in forward motion. The collection includes a side chair, dining chair, chaise, lounge chair with ottoman, and the promise of a rocker in the future. When the architect was asked why he started d

Bike in a Bag

Bike in a Bag

Tired of chaining your bike outside or taking the wheel with you into the office? Have you taken a vacation and wish you had your bike with you? Now you can, thanks to Lucid Design. They have recently unveiled a full-sized bike that can fit into a backpack! This lightweight bike breaks down into 21 pieces that are then packed into a circular bag. The pieces twist and lock together making assembly quick and easy. The frame is constructed from lightweight aluminum tubes that us

Product Feature: The Explosion Cabinet

Product Feature: The Explosion Cabinet

The "Explosion Cabinet" by Sabastian Errazuriz Quick Facts // maple, glass, and stainless steel 29 1/4 x 56 x 15 7/8 in. (74.30 x 142.24 x 40.48 cm) carnegie museum of art, pittsburgh, women’s committee acquisition fund This will be a picturebook addition. No explanations needed here. Enjoy! [all images courtesy of sebastian errazuriz] Palladio I Designer I The DesignBloc #wood #furniture #furnituredesign #design #craft #creativity #art #productdesign #product

An Awkward Birthmark That Unlocks Phones

An Awkward Birthmark That Unlocks Phones

Okay, so it's not really a birthmark, but it sure does come close to one! Google, Motorola, and VivaLnk inc have come to the conclusion that unlocking our phone by typing or swiping our finger is just too annoying for us to handle. According to their research, "the average mobile phone user spends 2.3 seconds to access their phone, approximately 39 times a day", and because of this horrific time loss, things just had to change around here. World peace has to take a back seat

Shwood. It's a Household Name

Shwood. It's a Household Name

Shwood is a purveyor of fine hand crafted wooden eyewear. Cut, shaped, assembled, finished and shipped all from its office in Portland. Their slogan is "Experiment with Nature," and that is just what they do. Everything from the concepts to manufacturing and packaging all started as an experiment in their wood shop. Starting with Zebrawood to Walnut, and everything in between, they are able to craft just about any type of sunglasses that you could imagine. Not into the wood g

Product Feature: "BEATER" by Ding3000

Product Feature: "BEATER" by Ding3000

Award Winning Product: "Beater" by Ding3000 Check out this great product by Product Design firm, Ding3000. It's a cleverly designed whisk that both expands and retracts by the swivel of a ring! "BEATER is a whisk that is sculpturesque, space-saving and functional all at the same time". With it's functional design, it can be folded together, saving space wherever it's stored. Beater's unique design has won won several awards already, including the recent win of the Design Plus

Equilibrium: An App That Keeps You Balanced

Equilibrium: An App That Keeps You Balanced

Balancing your Life: Check out this great new app made by architects, graphic designers, and product designers. It's called Equilibrium, and it's designed to promote balance in our daily lives. You know we can all use more of that! "By tracking activities in your area that improve mind, body, and spirit, Equilibrium gives you a more complete picture of wellness." says Equilibrium developers. Here's how it works: Equilibrium organizes wellness into three categories: think, whi

Product Feature: "The Minnow"

Product Feature: "The Minnow"

Saving the Waves one Board at a Time: Bureo (meaning "the waves" in Chilean), is the name of a Los Angeles-based sustainable skateboard company, that has recently come up with the world's first skateboard deck composed of recycled fishing nets! Its program, "Net Positiva," is the first fishnet recycling and collection program in Chile that creates a line of recycled skateboards; The first skateboard released is called, The Minnow. The Design What's so great about this? Not o

We Thought We Were The Coolest, Until We Saw This...

Product Feature: "The Coolest" by Ryan Grepper The Coolest is a new product designed by Ryan Grepper of Portland Oregon. This is pretty much the Coolest cooler we've ever seen. Grepper recently placed his Coolest design on Kickstarter, and his campian has already reached 3 times it's goal. As of today: $2,314,912 backer dollars! The Coolest takes the cooler, and brings it to the 21st Century. It is equipped with a recharable blender, a USB charger, speakers, bottle opener, an

15 Year Old Designs a Human Powered Flashlight and Wins Google's Science Fair

A 15 year old has placed 1st in Google's Science Fair for creating a human heat powered flashlight. Scientiest have been harvesting the heat emitted by humans as a source of renewable energy for years now. However "the latest development in thermoelectric energy generation doesn’t come from a high-tech lab at MIT; it comes from Ann Makosinski, a 15-year-old Canadian girl who developed a flashlight that is powered by the heat from a human hand." Watch: Full Video of the 15 yea

Lamps Made Out of Repurposed Vinyl.

Lamps Made Out of Repurposed Vinyl.

Did you ever wonder where all of the vinyl go after they left the garage sale? Yes, we know...we always have wondered too. I think this product launch by Vinylize will help put all of our minds at ease: "Budapest-based design studio Vinylize just launched a new lamp with a shade made from a repurposed vinyl record.The lamp is made from aluminum, and its cable, switch and plug hark back to the old days of quality through the use of bakelite and woven fibers. The lamp can be cl

3D Printed Cast Wins Design Award

3D Printed Cast Wins Design Award

Take a look at this new design for a cast. 3D printing is the way of the future, and this product design explores medical applications. This Osteoid Medical cast, attachable bone stimulator by Deniz Karasahin is a beautiful connection between design and health. "The goal of this project is to improve the overall healing experience for broken or fractured limbs by focusing on the patient’s comfort and the amount of time needed for the body to heal itself" This 3D printed cast

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