by Fünchkins
I came across some of the cutest greeting cards the other day from an American shop called Square Paisley Designs. JoAnne Maass is amazingly creative, her shop stocks jewellery, totes, baby beanies, onesies and greeting cards with all the illustrations done by Jo herself. Not surprising though, as she is a unassuming graphic designer by day and an illustrator and painter by night.
Swiss Design Group, Micasa Lab, has developed the Cocoon 1. The Cocoon serves as a retreat where you can do whatever you like without being completely removed from the outside world.
Swiss company Zai asked Kacper Hamilton to design a collection of tools inspired by the Japanese Higonokami, a folding pocket knife.
This knife is regarded as a “living fossil” because its design and production method has been unchanged since the late 19th century.
*Kacper’s answer to this request was the Higo Tool which can be purchased through Zai
Every year the little Swiss town of Vercorin invites artists to decorate their streets in any way they see fit. All in the interests of beautifying the whole town and promoting art that incorporates the entire village.
Lang/ Baumann was presented with the challenge in 201o and as a result they turned the streets that are lined with traditional wooden Swiss chalets, into brightly coloured geometrical masterpieces.
* Lang/ Baumann’s efforts can be seen on Feel Desain with more images on the Lang/ Baumann website
When you are living in the forest and only the best luxury axe in the world will do, you need the Carbon fibre axe from ECAL graduate Kacper Hamilton. The Carbon fibre axe has inter-changeable heads, one that can be used to fell trees and the other to chop wood, both made from high-carbon steel fibre. [Read more...]
At ECAL, Joelle Aeschlimann decided to design Little Boxes that interact via rubber contacts with the surface of your iPad turning them into musical boxes.
40 Swiss cable cars were given a new lease on life by 40 Swiss artists, designers and architects. The project is a Swiss cultural project by the Make a Wish Foundation of Switzerland and Rock by Adrien Rovero, is the first to be revealed.
A selection of the other cable cars can be seen at the Design Miami in Basel in 2013 and the rest will be revealed during the fair week in 2014.
* Mocoloco has more information on the fairs and Adrien Rovero‘s exhibition
Swiss architect firm, Peter Kunz, designed these ingenious parking garages that look like they were swallowed by a hungry hillside. Five concrete structures, fronted with glass stick out of the side of a hillside, overlooking the plain in Herden, Switzerland.
The perfect way to display that Porsche you just rolled off the showroom floor, I think.
This lovely bath tub from Swiss company Bagno Sasso is just another example of the lengths they will go to for a unique bath tub. It is crafted by hand from glass and mahogany in a range of colours.
Designer in every way, this swanky tub is available through the Bagno Sasso and was featured on Homedit
