Trepitjada rug made of espadrille soles by Martín Azúa. This rug by Barcelona designer Martín Azúa is woven like the soles of espadrille shoes.
Called Trepitjada, the mat was woven from grass by artisans in the Spanish region of Murcia. Azúa's project was shortlisted for the Delta Awards for industrial design at FADfest in Barcelona - read more details and see the winning design, a bike that grows with your child, in our earlier story. Check out our top ten stories about rugs and blankets here and see our Pinterest board here. Here's some more information from the Delta Award organisers: A carpet made of alpha or needle grass that reproduces footprints. Global Warming Rug by NEL for Nanimarquina.
Mexican design collective NEL have designed Global Warming Rug for Spanish textiles brand Nanimarquina.
The rug features a felt polar bear on a small iceberg in a large sea of carpet. Here's some info from Nanimarquina: Global Warming contrasts the comfort and softness of a rug with a thorny problem that is specific to our time. Following the age-old tradition of using rugs as a means for communication and a cultural record, NEL is portraying global warming in a scene that invites us to reflect on our impact on today’s world. Overshadowed by politicised discussions, climate change has been pushed off the front pages and into the science and financial sections, which has alienated the debate – as well as considerations of responsibility – from the personal social sphere. Global warming is part of Nanimarquina’s new catalogue, which will be presented during the Feria Internacional del Mueble in Valencia from the 23rd to the 27th of September 2008.
Fanions rugs by BKS. The asymmetric fringing on these wool rugs by Swiss designers Dimitri Bähler, Linn Kandel and Ismaël Studer makes them appear to pop out from the floor like drawings of 3D shapes.
Fanions, which means 'fringes' in French, is a collection of rugs intended to look like "extruded 3D shapes", according to designers Dimitri Bähler, Linn Kandel and Ismaël Studer. "We used the fringes in a modern and graphical way," they said, adding that the material was cut with a CNC machine. We featured Bähler's storage set for stationery last December, while two years ago in Cologne we reported on Kandel's tables inspired by electricity pylons. The rugs were shortlisted in the [D3] Contest for young designers at imm cologne, which was won by Swiss industrial designer Lucien Gumy's interlocking wooden shelving.
Lana Mangas rugs and seating by Patricia Urquiola for Gan. Maison&Objet 2013: these ice-cream coloured poufs and rugs by Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola for Spanish textile brand Gan were launched at Maison&Objet design fair in Paris this week.
Patricia Urquiola's Lana Mangas collection for Gan, a division of the Gandia Blasco design brand, comprises modular components that can be arranged in a variety of configurations. The range includes cross-shaped rugs that form an interlocking floor covering. A seating module with a small backrest can be combined with square and rectangular poufs to form flexible seating arrangements. The designer selected a palette of yellow, coral, pink, grey and ivory for the collection.
Here's mysterious, Swedish magic carpet makers Oyyo and their beautiful rugs. Thanks Wednesday! Before you get excited and start counting your gold coins to see how many of these rugs you can cram into your house, I must warn you that these are no ordinary rugs and it may be somewhat tricky to get your little paws on them.
Swedish design team Oyyo commissioned townsfolk near the Indian city of Jodhpur to make the rugs that are released on a very, very limited run (we’re talking two per year). The result is a selection of some of the most beautiful soft furnishings — if you can even call them that — that we’ve ever seen. Or is that down to the stroke-of-genius look book photography? We’ll leave it up to you to decide. Rug'n'roll. Jan 13, 2010 rug'n'roll by semiha kan from turkey designer's own words: “rug'n'roll” is a green design that is made from different size and colors of used carpets.
As is known, our earth becomes more dirty and old day by day. One of the reasons is used carpet. “If we don't recycle, we can reuse them”. They may be used as a component to produce other products such as furniture. Diefabrik: flickrl rug at DMY berlin 2011. Jun 26, 2011 diefabrik: flickrl rug at DMY berlin 2011 ‘flickrl rug’ by diefabrik at DMY berlin 2011 image © designboom while the public has adopted environmentally-sustainable practices such as recycling and using energy-efficient technology, it is not as conscious about the volume of energy needed for internet use: one google search can easily consume 1 to 7 watts, depending on the source.
German studio diefabrik examines energy consumption of online media platforms with their textile design, ‘flickrl rug,’ presented at DMY berlin 2011. image © designboom image © designboom image © designboom.