Brit Insurance Designs of the Year
Brit Insurance Designs of the Year is the Design Museum’s annual exploration of the most innovative, interesting and forward-looking new work in design of all kinds, from around the world.
The exhibition presents around 100 projects which are a selection from those nominated by a group of internationally respected design experts, curators, critics, practitioners, enthusiasts and this year you will have the chance to vote for your favourite.
The nominated designs fall into seven categories – architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport. They can be designed by a practice, team or individual. A winner for each category will be selected by an international jury and one overall winner will be awarded Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2009.
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A Shelter in Dubai
The shelter is the first of its kind creative campus that allows different individuals in the creative field to engage in a creative environment. With Different core elements, the shelter aims to become a medium for those willing to transform their creative abilities into commercial services and products into society.
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Massimo Iosa Ghini: Equo for MioDino
The new ‘Equo’ range for MioDino, with its extensive collection of premium office system furniture, has been designed by architect Massimo Iosa Ghini.
Via & more: designboom
Flagship for sustainability
Mario Cucinella’s completed building for Nottingham University sets the standard for sustainable energy research. The main function Cucinella’s newly opened building is to provide a specialist research laboratory for staff and postgraduate students within the new Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies. The tower incorporates a research studio / teaching room and resource room, as well as offices, meeting rooms and a permanent display space. The exhibition space will provide a platform for communicating the latest developments in sustainable energy and construction technologies, both regionally in China and internationally.
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Mini Mini by Habits Studio for Luceplan
‘Mini Mini’ is the new suspension lamp designed by Habits Studio for the elementi di Luceplan collection. The special manufacturing of the body allows continuity of the form, the electric cable becomes an extension of the body.
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Copenhagen Creatives
The Danish capital has long been oozing Nordic cool and with a recent spate of fantastic new retail spaces, we thought it about time to schedule a little jaunt to the city. We caught up with some of the city’s leading creatives (read their interviews below), whom we photographed in our favourite Copenhagen stores.
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Limited edition book from Birkhäuser
Limited Edition is the new phenomenon in furniture design. The demand for unique pieces is steadily increasing. With prototypes, one-offs and limited product lines, designers are making furniture objects outside of, and parallel to, the industrial manufacturing system. Furniture prototypes have always been an element of the industrial design process, but now they are being brought from the workshops and presented to the public as embodiments of one of the most exciting creative fields of our age. In the global village with its standardized commodities, exclusive one-offs with an artisanal flavor are turning into coveted objects. The limited furniture series so manage to satisfy the collector’s appetite with objects where the boundary between furniture and art dissolve.
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Jumbo Hostel at Arlanda Airport, Stockholm
Jumbo Hostel, a hostel housed in a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, opened last month at Stockholm Arlanda Airport in Sweden.
Via & more: Dezeen
Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
The £35 million project to build a new museum for the Tudor warship Mary Rose in Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard took significant steps forward this week with the news that the planning application has been approved by Portsmouth City Council.
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The passion for designing rugs
The development of nanimarquina has been based on a very clear idea: the passion for designing rugs. A simple principle, a transparent assertion of intentions that becomes reality by combining values such as observation, innovative effort, enthusiasm and the ability to carry craft traditions through to the 21st century. During the Maison & Objet exhibition nanimarquina launched their 2009 rug collection.
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