DIY Doily Light: Simple Suspended-Sphere Lace Lamp Shade So simple a child could make it – and have fun in the process, too. And the result? A shining example of how light and shadow can work together to brighten up a room. Swedish craftswoman Isabelle Dos started with a simple party-shop balloon, blown up big and wrapped in white lace place settings painted with wallpaper glue. The soaked material sticks readily to the sides of the inflated sphere, overlapping to form a contiguous shell, suspended and left to dry overnight like a plaster cast. Pop the balloon and presto: a little cut in the top lets you drop in a bare bulb and create your own chandelier, potentially using whatever pattern you want (if lace feels a little too old-fashioned) to frame the outside and filter the light. Glass Beach - The Dump You'll Want to Visit Before you say anything about the content of this article, I hate people who litter. I’ll judge you if I think you’re too lazy to recycle. I hate pollution and the death of our fragile ecosystems and all the rest. But- with that disclaimer out of the way- Glass Beach in Fort Bragg, California is the incredible result of human wastefulness and the resilience of nature. It’s like a little Inuksuk… I’ve been trolling around for lesser known landscapes to road trip to and explore, and stumbled across this chunk of multicoloured west coast paradise. These days, Glass Beach is a protected part of MacKerricher State Park, but in 1949, it was the site of an unrestricted dump. Eventually, California realized that dumping automobiles, appliances, toxic substances and razor sharp shards of glass into the water was probably a bad idea, and looked elsewhere for a dumping site. The beaches under the cliffs lay polluted, cluttered and ruined, and were basically treated as a forgotten ‘mistake.’
DIY: Furniture Makeovers I'm obsessed with making-over old, worn out furniture. It's amazing how almost any old piece can be totally transformed with new paint, hardware and a little imagination! Here are three examples from Ladies Home Journal...click here to read the entire article. Out-dated side table with stone top transformed into a bright and cheerful accent piece! *First they removed the hardware and stone top, sanded the table all over, and applied a coat of primer. *They cut a length of seagrass wallpaper to fit the inset and topped it with a pane of 1/4-inch glass. Old dresser transformed into a chic sideboard with plenty of storage! *They gave the whole piece a light sanding, a coat of primer, and two coats of semigloss latex paint in a pale blue shade on the outside and a deeper blue inside for contrast. *To dress up the doors, they picked out a pair of modern nickel pulls. *Click here to read the details on how they transformed the inside...
DIY Make-Up Brush Storage All you need for this project is your drill with a drill bit on it, and a piece of wood. The drill bit depends on the size of hole you need. Just compare your bits to your brushes, as you can vary the sizes of holes. For the wood I used this cut branch, but a simple block of wood will do the trick too. Just drill straight down with as many holes as you need. Voila! You could also make this for storing office supplies, like pens and pencils. Super simple! (You can view this original post at Organized Mom HERE.) SPACE Magazine The strategies of hybridisation of the 90s, more often than not, resulted in the smooth blending of one tectonic surface with another. Accompanying this tendency is the belief that the formal procedure of blending will naturally result in the cross-breeding of programme. Blue Frog for us is a project that revisits the problem of multi-programmed spaces without resorting to formal redundancy as a representation of programmatic complexity. The project brief called for the conversion of a large north-lit industrial warehouse within the old mill district in Mumbai into a complex of sound recording studios and an acoustic lounge. This lounge will consist of a restaurant, bar and a live stage. Based on this desire of the project brief to have it all, the question for us is: how do you collapse a theatre, restaurant, bar and club into a warehouse, whilst maintaining all the performative characteristics of each individual type?
Cardboard Interior Design Upgrades Community Lobby With some creativity and design aesthetic, cardboard box forts are taken to a whole new level. Cardboard is becoming an eco-friendly material of choice for furniture design, and sustainable designers have put it to many uses. It is used both for chic contemporary cardboard thrones as well as cardboard cribs and doll cradles. Bringing cardboard interior design outside of the individual home and into the broader community, however, is Israeli designer Tali Buchler who designed an upcycled and cardboard-based lobby for Zichron Yaakov’s community center. Cleverly titled “Outside the Box”, Buchler’s design consists of a modular furniture system made of recycled materials. “Being an educational center,” Buchler writes, “it was important for me to inspire the community for green living, by using primarily recycled materials, showing a simple way to construct furniture as an alternative for buying.” Almost all the materials in “Outside the Box” are upcycled. :: Tali Buchler
Charming Hotel Decoration by Campana Brothers - this architecture education, design and project reference on this ARCHITECTURE sponsored links New Hotel Athens is designed in charming decoration to attract many visitors. Campana Brothers give old style through recycled furniture and art design. This charming hotel located near with Syntagma (constitution) Square, Athens, Greece. The designer and architecture students from University of Thessaly are using different style of furniture and decoration through old stuff and elements. Chairs, lamps, desk, mirror and bathroom washbasin are made in sculpture design to get unusual performing. Sponsored Links Reception area is created in unusual interior and decoration with unique wall. For comfortable bedroom, Favela chair is chosen to provide an old style which is combining with shiny two side mirror, sculpture washbasin in diamond shape, unusual design of long desk for working. Designed by Campana Brothers Images from designboom Charming Hotel Decoration by Campana Brothers Pictures Gallery this ARCHITECTURE ideas Hayvenhurst Ranch House Remodel by Dan Brunn
Incredible Paper Artwork by Julien Vallée Julien Vallée is a graphic designer and art director from Montréal, Canada. One of Julien’s favorite materials to use in his artwork and design is paper, hand-crafting it to create unique one of a kind pieces. He has worked for some important clients, including the likes of MTV, The New York Times Magazine and Computer Arts Magazine. On top of these amazing achievements, Julien has been featured in countless publications all over the world, and has also held exhibitions of his work in various countries. If you like the work you see here, be sure to check out more of Julien Vallée’s work at his portfolio, and follow him on Twitter. This post was put together exclusively for WDD by Callum Chapman. Do you know of any other paper artists who produce awesome work like Julien Vallée?
What Do You Say About a Traditional Arabic Style with a Contemporary Look? That’s a fusion that worked very well for Hookah Lounge Satelite realized by BNKR Arquitectura. I am talking about a restaurant and a night club opened in Ciudad Satélite, a satellite city of Mexico City conceived in 1954 by Mario Pani. People living here were considered outsiders. This complex makes them invade the city center’s restaurants, shops, bars and nightclubs in a frustrated need to experience a sense of belonging. So, the owners of a very chic and successful restaurant opened a branch of their business in this part of the city.
Contemporary Office Space by Japanese Designer, Nendo The Japanese designer Nendo, create this creative design. His project is modern office space that located near the Meguro river in Tokyo. As a divider he used a waves wall so it can be separated but also give a sense of connection between them. This modern office space consist the meeting space, management, workspace and storage. Stunning office interior design project, clean and have a strong contemporary style. Faux Concrete Streams, Rocks and Sand on Canada Homes Interior Floor Kathy van Gogh of Fake It in British Columbia, Canada recently sent in pictures of an interior floor job she completed. "My client wanted their floor to reflect the location of their new house-one block from the beach," she said. The client shared his vision with her but ultimately left the design and artwork up to her. He never specified an exact color, just the feeling he wanted. "He said he wanted his home to look like Anthony and Cleopatra at the beach," she said. While deciding on the design for the floor, Kathy examined various trinkets the client left to inspire her, including sea shells and items in old copper color and blue colors. TechniquesThe client is an award-winning landscape designer whose home landscape consisted of large granite and slabs of rock. The client wanted his hallway to look like a stream pouring into the ocean, so Kathy created this look by using a modified technique she picked up from Gaye Goodman's videos. Kathy uses only Colormaker products.
Wall Photos Giles Miller Surface Design: Using Texture and Reflection as a Means of Illustration London-based design practice, Giles Miller Studio, has built a reputation for creating innovative surface, interior and retail design projects that are both playful and experimental. The studio prides itself on the ability to deliver a diverse range of solutions that marry architecture with beautiful interior finish by way of original and inspiring surface development. Here at Freshome we were intrigued by the beautiful surface designs that are characteristic of the Giles Miller Studio and we wanted to know more. Luckily we were able to catch up with Miller himself and he agreed to let us put our questions to him. You specialise in the development of innovative surfaces for interior and retail design projects. GM. Your studio is located in Spitalfields, in the heart of London’s creative East End. As well as Stella McCartney, your recent clients include the Ritz-Carlton Hotels, The World Architecture Festival, Selfridges and London Design Museum. GM. GM. GM. GM. GM. GM. GM.
Why Do We Need Doctoral Study in Design? Why Do We Need Doctoral Study in Design? Meredith Davis North Carolina State University, North Carolina, USA This article makes a case for why design research is important to contemporary design practice and the deepening of the design disciplines, especially at this point in our history. Further, the text addresses the rather checkered past of design research programs in universities in the United States of America (USA), and the international positions by professional design associations on the development of research cultures. Finally, the article talks about the pre-requisite, institutional conditions for establishing and differentiating research-oriented master’s and doctoral degrees. Keywords ─ Doctoral Education, PhD in Design, Design Research, Research Education, Design Knowledge, Design Education. Citation: Davis, M. (2008). Received October 15, 2008; Accepted December 7, 2008; Published December 31, 2008 Copyright: © 2008 Davis. Corresponding Author: meredith_davis@ncsu.edu