Precious mineral and metal resources have hit all time highs in terms of raw material prices. We may be in a banking crisis but the need for raw material isn't showing any signs of a slow down. Big investors see ...Read More

Mineral

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

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

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

The incandescent bulb is nearing the end of its life. Across the world governments having been passing legislation in favour of more energy conserving alternatives; and here in Europe a ban on selling 100watt bulb has been in place for ...Read More

Lightbulb

There's a bit of a blur in the distinction between art and design. Functional products and merchandise can't be classed as art can they?  Both go through a creative (and sometimes torturous) process  and then get tangled up in methods ...Read More

Art

Following on from my Character post, here is a range of products  that again use contemporary iconography and transpose the icons onto home products. The skull is usually associated with the macabre, but here we see it used playfully as a pop icon.     Skull ...Read More

Skull

I know I've certainly been doing quite a bit of sewing lately but I'm not the only one. Sales of sewing machines have risen at a phenomenal rate over past few years; I heard a figure of +600% from John ...Read More

Sew

It must be something to do with our inability to grow up;  maybe after a childhood that has been shrunk down into just a few innocent years we're  perfectly happy with little characters dotted around the house.  I confess, I have ...Read More

Character

"Colours are generated from the passage of light through an atmosphere that carries different degrees of dullness" -  Aristotle apparently This post has nothing to do with post holiday blues and the dullness of those long dark winter days - no really. This is an ...Read More

Blue