Inspiration - A' Design Awards

 Good design is always an inspiration and it is pleasure to get a look at what has been selected as best design of the world - enjoy some of the winners of this year's A' Design Award:

Spirito by Alexey Danilin

Formation 01 by Samuel Ross

Residential House by Saiwen Liu

Tau Murano by 

Al Moosa Pediatric Clinics by Caline Morcos Interiors

Luar by Lattoog, Lattoog

Sume by Sebnem Buhara

It was interesting to find that interior designs were mostly in the Bronze and Iron category and I could not select many of them, too - are we, interior designers, more critical to our work? :)

Soap as a packaging material

Can you imagine how much plastics we can replace?  

"it is estimated that over a lifetime, a single person uses around 800 shampoo bottles, most of which are just thrown away and pollute the environment taking thousands of years to degrade. 
zhou’s soapack is a sustainable brand that proposes the use of soap as a material to package shampoo and other toiletry products. the packaging itself can be used as soap and completely disintegrates when used, leaving no plastic residue behind." designboom

mi zhou is a post-graduate student at central sant martins and developed this project for the material futures program. soapack was exhibited in the degree show during june 19-23, 2019.

 Another proof that design can save the world :)

Romantic, retro, feminine

This is how the Stardust sofa and armchair by Slovenian product and interior designer Nika Zupanc for Sé looks to me:

 

Elegant, isn't it? I would use both of them with pleasure in my interior design projects.

Silk Light

Mesh light, source

Lotus light, source

They are created directly from the silk cocoons by Japanese products designer Yasuhiro Suzuki's Re Cocoon project - a series of silk’s structures directly moulded from silk cocoons.

  

Trend: DIY Design and PRODUCE!

Today, with the rise of automated manufacturing machines and the access to cheap and intuitive 3D programs, the quest for customization becomes a reality. Industrial designer Samuel Nelson Bernier has created a new DIY tool, Project RE_that lets people modify products and, using low-cost 3D printing, to increase the value of a broken or unused object by giving it a new function or a new form. One can create customised lids that can be screwed or clipped onto standard jars, cans and bottles.

Project RE_ experiment is based on the open source principles and on the successful business model of Instructables, an international DIY community owned by Autodesk. Project RE_ also studies upcycling as a new urban aesthetic and presents do-it-yourself projects designed by Samuel N. Bernier*, founder of the blog. All 3D printing files and laser cutting files will be published on Thingiverse.

 
 This is a research/manual for DIYers and hackers.

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