Showing posts with label idea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label idea. Show all posts
Sunday, November 3, 2013
We have met Jalo Helsinki at Maison et Objet in Paris last year. This company came out with interesting and stylish ideas for Smoke Alarms. At the moment, they are working on 10year life battery Smoke Detectors and Fire Blankets with design elements. You can find Jalo products in Aram Store in London.
From Their Press Release:
Elegance meets playfulness: Kupu by Harri Koskinen and Lento by Paola Suhonen
Safety can be beautiful and easy
Now it is easier than ever to give beauty and safety to the ones you love and care about.
Kupu and Lento are perfect presents for Birthdays, Family Christmases and sales promotions.
From Their Press Release:
JALO HELSINKI
The Finnish smoke alarms Kupu and Lento bring safety and beauty into homes. This usually difficult and unaesthetic safety device has now been designed into an easy to use decorative article. From this unique idea Jalo Helsinki was established in 2009.
The core of Finnish design is crystallised in Jalo Helsinki. The idea is not only to create an impressive exterior but to enhance the relationship of man and the product. Internationally acknowledged top designers Harri Koskinen and Paola Suhonen’s new and brave way of seeing utility articles comes true in the smoke alarms of Jalo Helsinki.
Elegance meets playfulness: Kupu by Harri Koskinen and Lento by Paola Suhonen
The clear lined and elegant Kupu was noticed in the early stages when it got the Red Dot Design Award 2011. The following year Kupu won the 2012 Wallpaper* Design Award and was selected as the Decor Item of the Year in a Finnish Muoto2012 competition. It’s external casing has multiple different coatings: five colourful textile options and a modern chrome coloured metal surface. Due to its many different looks and character Kupu easily merges into the interior and yet stands out as a drop of colour in the room.
Paola Suhonen is well-known as the founder of fashion house Ivana Helsinki whose collections have been shown on the runways of New York Fashion Week and the Paris Fashion Week. Fashion designers open-minded and adventures character really shows in Lento. It is wild and colourful butterfly, a moth, that stays on the watch when everybody else is sleeping. Because of its fun and playful look, it fits perfectly to nursery or to your first own home. Lento is stylish with a twist of rock attitude.
Safety can be beautiful and easy
We at Jalo Helsinki believe that when an object is a beautiful part of its surrounding, and is practical as well as easy to use people pay more attention to it, take better care of it and therefore increase the safety of their home. That is why we have especially paid attention to usability along with design and safety of Jalo Helsinki smoke alarms. Installation of Kupu and Lento is extremely easy as it only takes few seconds with the 3M-sticker – no power drill or screws needed. Also there are no tiny test buttons, but the whole external casing acts as a press switch for silencing false alarms and testing the performance of the product. Both Kupu and Lento are CE-certified.
Now it is easier than ever to give beauty and safety to the ones you love and care about.
Kupu and Lento are perfect presents for Birthdays, Family Christmases and sales promotions.
For further information, please check their website
JALO Helsinki's new design approach for Smoke Alarms
Friday, November 1, 2013
When you look at Grand’s series of furniture, you notice how it reminds you of a classy, delicate lady’s handbag. Simple and elegant, stimulating audience to touch it.
From their Website:
GRAND is a newborn collaboration between the designer Mathieu Gustafsson and cabinet maker Niklas Karlsson, who chose a name that reflects their vision for design and the quality of their work. As they say themselves, ''when creating our own brand we didn’t want to compete in low pricing, we rather wanted to contribute in artistic expression and quality''. LOCK and LIGHT are the first two pieces designed and executed by the Stockholm
In the LOCK cabinet, the ball clasp looking mechanism stands out and becomes the centre of the attention. The ingenious way this cabinet actually locks is reminiscent of the details found in old fashioned women’s handbags where the brass finishing along the edge of the doors ends in a small brass ball giving the generally minimalistic piece originality and a strong identity.
This subtle way of playful experimentation with materials and tactility is also obvious in the imposing LIGHT wardrobe which winks at the legendary Palmgrens' bags. Renowned in the 1960s for their legendary handbag in which leather and rattan were successfully combined, this Swedish company rightfully became world famous. GRAND were able to translate that combination in an even more ground breaking way, covering the sides of the wardrobe with rattan. The blending of thin white lacquered birch with an admittedly misused material such as rattan, gives an elegant result, where added nobility comes into play through the application of the brass details.
The Grand Furniture
Friday, October 18, 2013
I have noticed this stool at 100% Design Exhibition and thought that it looked quite interesting and unusual. I made some notes and decided to to do more research on it.
Catherine Aitken, furniture and product designer, has graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2006 and then successfully completed her course in Royal College of Art, London in 2011.
Description:
Responding to the concept Fade, these stools explore a gradual change in intensity through increasing and decreasing levels of colour and altering the presence of a particular material. Lengths of cotton cord are stitched together and then wrapped to a plywood plate and powder-coated steel base. These unique pieces combine function with visual intrigue.
Materials:
Cotton cord, plywood, powder-coated steel
Catherine Aitken, furniture and product designer, has graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2006 and then successfully completed her course in Royal College of Art, London in 2011.
Description:
Responding to the concept Fade, these stools explore a gradual change in intensity through increasing and decreasing levels of colour and altering the presence of a particular material. Lengths of cotton cord are stitched together and then wrapped to a plywood plate and powder-coated steel base. These unique pieces combine function with visual intrigue.
Materials:
Cotton cord, plywood, powder-coated steel
Fade Stool by Catherine Aitken
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Manifest Side Table is a clever side table idea from Australian product and furniture designer Chris Vincent. This table incorporates USB charging cables for multiple electronic devices. Three USB ports enable convenient charging, with cables wound and stowed away and the charging end left ready
to access when required.
to access when required.
The table is constructed of solid oak and powder coated steel tube, and plugs into a standard 240V power point. Wool felt details protect the timber surface from damage. Manifest Side Table is suitable for a domestic setting as well as commercial environments.
H: 500
DIA: 460
WINNER: BEST CONCEPT AWARD, Vivid @ Furnitex, JULY 2013
@ 100% Design, London 2013
Manifest Side Table
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