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

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

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

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

An era that has been a little overlooked in our current love of Modernism.  Mid Century Modern  pieces, either original or inspired by, have seen a phenomenal revival in the past few years - and its now almost impossible to ...Read More

Art Deco

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

The economic climate has changed the way designers have thought about delivering products to us. In a fast moving world with a lot of competition its important to engage the market. Its no good just sending your product to a ...Read More

Democracy

Space saving, or a temporary addition that needs to be tucked away, there are plenty of practical reasons for products that fold down. And aside from the technical challenges there are also the aesthetics to think about.  Here are a number ...Read More

Fold

Stripped to the bare bones here are a number of designs that don't want to cover their skeletal structure . Some are perhaps a result of  too much time tinkering with designs in the 3D modelling  phase and thinking, "hmmmm.... actually, I like that ...Read More

Wire

Hopefully we'll be popping a few corks over the holiday season but as the wine industry swaps cork for screw tops the vast forests of cork tree are under serious risk of being ripped up and converted to other agricultural ...Read More

Cork