Design de produto: Corticeira Amorim no MoMA Design Store

A Corticeira Amorim, através da sua subsidiária Amorim Cork Composites, vai estar representada na loja MoMA Design Store do MoMA – Museum of Modern Art of New York – e em prestigiadas exposições internacionais de arquitectura e decoração, como a MADE expo, em Milão, que se vai realizar entre os dias 3 e 6 de Fevereiro.

A colecção Alma Gémea, uma linha diferenciadora de artigos para o sector dos bens de consumo para a casa, que assenta na combinação da cortiça e da faiança, foi seleccionada para ser vendida no MoMA, um dos mais famosos e importantes museus de arte moderna do mundo. Esta linha de produtos foi desenvolvida no âmbito de uma parceria entre Amorim Cork Composites e a Matceramica.

A exposição dos produtos será feita no espaço Destination Portugal, já a partir de Maio, juntamente com uma selecção de outros artigos nacionais, desenvolvidos a partir de métodos e técnicas tradicionais e com forte capacidade de alavancar o design ecológico.

http://www.alma-gemea.net/

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Packaging: WineSide Trial-Sized Wine

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Packaging: Paul Smith for Evian

Following its annual trend in partnerships with Fashion Designers through 2010, Evian has linked up with one of the most creative designers, known for his sense of fun and optimistic attitude – Paul Smith.

The annual Evian designer bottle tradition began in 2008 with a limited edition bottle designed by Christian Lacroix, followed in 2009 with Jean Paul Gaultier.

The new exclusive Evian bottle is designed with a festive theme in vibrant colors - with a nod to the famous Paul Smith stripes - which elegantly underlines the purity of the natural spring water from the French Alps. Miles away from the traditional holiday themes, Evian offers an experience of youth in a multi-colored bottle with five different caps to collect.

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Design: All City by Cabracega

All City is an update on the family porcelain by Cabracega, Rita Gonzalez and Ricardo Vasconcelos. Traditional Portuguese porcelain dinnerware is brought into the here and now by using the contemporary urban language of graffiti motifs. Urban artists such as Hium, Mar, Mr. Dheo, Quillograma, and Tosco put their mark on the classical shapes of timeless tableware.

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Design: Clutch Chair

Clutch Chair: Cadeira fabricada com 10 000 palhinhas. Seleccionada para o Noise Festival 2008.

Portfolio de Scott Jarvie.

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Packaging: Água do Luso inova nas embalagens

A Água do Luso e o Estúdio Pedrita apresentaram esta quarta-feira, na inauguração da edição de 2009 da ExperimentaDesign, uma nova solução de embalagem: a garrafa LH2O. Tal como explica a marca em comunicado a ideia “é encontrar uma nova forma para a Água de Luso através de uma garrafa que ilustre as qualidades e propriedades únicas desta água mineral natural”, ao mesmo tempo que procura “também optimizar e facilitar o seu armazenamento, transporte e exposição, assim como o seu manuseamento e consumo”.

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Packaging: Hint Mint cases

New beautiful designs created by James Jean for the new collectibles Hint Mint tin cases.
Check out some early material at Process Recess, the James Jean's blog.

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Design: Good Afternoon by Mile Project

The Good Afternoon clock by Japan's Mile Project almost gives the impression that time is but a ghost. Narrow rays of light that sneak through small slits in the bezel act as second, minute and hour hands. A great piece if you are already really zen about time, but perhaps nerve-wracking for those in a constant hurry. Yutaka Koyama's mirrors are good for distorting reality when the whole truth proves to be too much, while A/R Studio's Sweethearts coffee set highlights a gentler, kinder reality altogether. And the Wallop by Proudly is a modular hanger system where each section offers hooks that fold out. The sections fit together like puzzle pieces, so that the user is ultimately the creator of the final form. Hang clothes, bags or even light fixtures.

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Design: Chain Shoes

Swedish design students Tove Jansson and Per Emanuelsson have collaborated to create what they called Chain shoes. A concept based on two very opposite ideas; floating and the restriction of being chained down. They feel like some torture chamber device to me, but brilliant nonetheless. I love to see student work, if you are smart, its the time that you can take advantage of really pushing the envelope to create completely abstract interpretation of conventional projects. And whats the worst that can happen, your instructor disapproves, oh well!

The Chain shoes won the first prize in the “Shoemania” design competition which took place last week in conjunction with the Nordic Shoe and Bag Fair and The Swedish Association of Agents in Stockholm. The jury consisted of Camilla Thulin, fashion designer Henrik Mattsson, art directors Sara Winter and Gilis Hagelin, and L & P Nierenburg.

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Packaging: Fresh'n Fruity

"New Zealand brand design expert, Dow Design, has masterminded the brand platform and new image for Fonterra Brands’ Fresh’n Fruity yoghurt range hitting supermarket chillers next week. While most packaging has a logo and separate imagery, Dow Design has broken new ground by making the logo the actual pack design, with the evolving vines and fruit communicating the personality of each range.

Fonterra’s brief was to create a distinctive and memorable design to differentiate the Fresh’n Fruity brand from competitors. ‘The packaging had to have the personality and attractiveness that is the long established Fresh’n Fruity world,’ says Dow designer Andrew Sparrow.

Bursting with fruit imagery encased in fresh white space, Fresh’n Fruity’s logo has been reworked into a leafy device complete with vines that change to suit the product range. ‘This trademarked imagery will keep Fresh’n Fruity ahead of the pack, while making it easy for yoghurt lovers to find their favourite brand in the supermarket chiller,’ says Andrew.

‘Fresh’n Fruity’s image overhaul is another outstanding example of how Dow’s individual design process connects consumers emotionally with brands to consistently deliver improved performance and sales,’ he explains."

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Design de produto: Beautiful Spaghetti Benches

Artistic furniture by Pablo Reinoso. The benches would look great in a contemporary art museum… of course, mainly for viewing purposes then actually sitting on them. I don’t know if these “Spaghetti Benches” are safe for public places, because if someone trips over the ends… yikes!

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Design de produto: Tema home agora direccionada ao mercado português



A TemaHome difunde a imagem do design Português em mais 40 países e atendendo a um crescente número de pedidos por parte dos consumidores Português deu inicio a um novo projecto no mercado nacional.

www.temahome.com

Design de produto: Legal Weed

So Print, the hoary graphic-design magazine, posed a challenge to four
top designers: How should the package of legal weed actually look?
Each of them took a radically different approach.

Design Industrial: Ping Pong Door

Será que a tua vizinha da frente alinha num joguito?

Projecto: Ping Pong Door
Design: Tobias Fränzel

Fashion: Chic & Kitsch

Ana Ventura, designer gráfica, decide fazer aqui uma viagem pelo mundo do design de moda. O resultado são acessórios com glamour, exclusivos e únicos.





www.chicandkitsch.com

SHIT BOX: Design ao serviço da funcionalidade.
Ou será, funcionalidade ao serviço do design?

Óptima para qualquer ocasião (que não tenha um banheiro, lógico), a Shit Box vem pra revolucionar o hábito das pessoas. Imagine se, numa viagem de 5 horas, tem uma vontade de fazer o nº 2...Fazer no mato? Não! Apenas monte sua Shit Box e fique à vontade!

Ela tem cerca de 35 cm de altura e promete ser rígida e confortável além de ser biodegradável!



Para mais informações, visite o site da empresa clicando aqui.
Fonte Gizmodo

Nadia Soares vencedora do concurso TemaHome "Living your dreams"

Nadia Soares vencedora do concurso TemaHome "Living your dreams"

Congratulations to Nadia Carina Soares! Her project landed her the first prize in the "Living your Dreams" contest awarding her a trip to the 100% Design in London, one of the most important product design events in the world. In addition to her trip Nadia earned an internship at the TemaHome design department under the supervision of renowned designer Filipe Alarcão.