Design Archives

EMOTIONAL CLOTHES, FASHION REPRESENTING EMOTIONAL WELLBEING

We all know that clothing is, in a sense, an identification tool that can function in determining the symbolic boundaries between people. Fashion and clothing are a field where clothes…

‘LOCK YOUR PHONE’ LAMP

WHAT IT IS? In 2017 Austrian designer, Klemens Schillinger created a lamp that only lights up once the user is willing to surrender his or her smartphone. Based on the saying…

WHAT IT IS? Dromo is a ultra-lightweight PET bottle particularly designed for e-commerce. It focuses on reducing secondary packaging and therefore reducing the overall packaging costs and usage. The packaging can…

A BANANA A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY!

WHAT IT IS? This innovation, which is already launched in a Korean Supermarket, is all about eating healthy and preventing food waste. Inside the wrapped packaging of the bananas, includes a…

THE ‘PERFECT CHOCOLATE CHIP’, CREATED BY TESLA DESIGNER REMY LABESQUE

What is it? A recreated chocolate chip, designed by Remy Labesque with Dandelion chocolate. Labesque works at Tesla as a designer, and usually works on solar powered roofs and vehicle charging,…

EVERLASTING FLOWERS

When plastic pollution metamorphoses into flower sculpture… What is it? Plastic artist William Amor transforms plastic waste into graceful flower arrangements. Jewellery, interior decorations, monumental installations… The founder of Créations…

TURN YOUR PHONE OFF BEFORE ENTERING

What is it? Do you know how many times you unlock your phone every hour? According to a Ikea Spain research we do it every ten minutes. At this point, can…

WHAT’S GOING TO BE COOL IN 2021? AUGMENTED REALITY GLASSES ARE RETURNING FOR CONSUMERS AND HERE’S WHAT THAT MEANS.

Remember Google Glass? Well I was one of those initial Glass Explorers aka “Glassholes” who put these things on when they were launched in 2013. The product was discontinued in 2015…

ON HOW THE CORONA PANDEMIC INFLUENCES INTERIOR; ‘THE PRACTICAL’ AND ‘THE VISUAL’

This blog is a follow up on my last two blogs called ‘On how art and creativity can help us to stay positive and connected during the corona pandemic’ and…

WHAT IF YOUR CLOTHES SPOKE?

WHAT IT IS? “Fashion is composed in the ‘spirit of time’ of each society. Each season weaves certain forms, and it is mainly about the skin, ‘a subjectivity’ that has…