This is really about the different levels of skin tone colours I've spotted from a pink through to softer brown tones; they've been used as an accent colour or as a block. Pink is usually associated with a girls bedroom ...Read More

Pink Tones

Look under the table or chair and you will probably see four tidy straight legs, but increasingly designers have been playing with this convention. You can change the height of your table, use other materials for legs or if you ...Read More

Legs

Advances in LED's have allowed lights to slim right down; lighting design is no longer dominated by the shape of a bulb and the bulky electrics. The softer light emitted has taken away the need for a shade. LED's embedded ...Read More

LED

In an area of London know for its design companies Clerkenwell Design Week popped up last week. Its a bit of a stretch calling it a week (its only 3 days) but its a great opportunity for designers to gain ...Read More

Clerkenwell Design Week

A warm glow that harks back to an era of candle light; that's all we really need now. We have so much light coming from the screen of a laptop or the television we don't really need much more. Lighting ...Read More

Glow

Strictly speaking this should be titled cube as all the images on this post are based around the cube. Square seems more appropriate as the discussion of a square deal for designers was posed over on Twitter during the Milan ...Read More

Squared

An overdue post on Milan! Here are some of my favourite shots from this years events in and around Salone del Mobile. Hopefully it'll give give some sense of what was shown. There will be more to follow! Ron Gilad added ...Read More

Milan

We use so much paper in everyday life - even in this digital age we still rely on paper for news, packaging, and all manner of print outs, the list is endless. Recycled paper reduced to a grey pulp doesn't ...Read More

Pulp

Here are some products that have been stripped down to a single black line. There is no superfluous decoration, they're structural sketches brought to life. Optically playing with our perceptions, 2D suddenly becomes 3D as you move around the pieces. Christian ...Read More

Black Line

Here are designs that appreciate iron and steel in its raw state. They've been allowed and encouraged to rust and corrode, the natural state of decay seen as something beautiful as opposed to being a sign of a fault, fatigue ...Read More

Rust