Works from Mike Monteiro

http://www.beholder-art.com/product_detail/783/Untitled%20%28isn%27t%20about%20you%29.html

By  Dutch designerMaarten Baas

a new furniture range for British brand Established & Sons.

Spanish designer Nacho Carbonell exhibited his Evolution chairs at Spazio Rossana Orlandi.
The project explores themes of public and private behaviour and is meant to provide users with an escape from everyday life.

The collection includes three seats made from paper mache with chicken-wire frames: a chair with a cave-like bulge that a person can climb inside for contemplation (third); a public bench with a chamber at one end for an individual to escape into (first image); and a lovers seat to allow for both public and private behaviour between a couple (fourth).

EVOLUTION THOUGHTS - BY NACHO CARBONELL

Living in an era were we are saturated of information at a frenetic rhythm, I wanted to create a refuge were you can escape and digest this rave in which we are submerged. This provides a moment of peace with yourself, with others or between others.

The material employed is recycled paper coming from excess information produced by our society. The paper has been separated by colours before creating the paste. This allows us to not only recycle the paper but also the ink it possesses.

Once the paste is ready it is applied over an iron frame covered with chicken wire of different textures. Depending on the pattern of this wire a unique paper texture appears.

In this first evolution edition there is three different pieces. The first is “one man chair”, which incites personal thinking. “The bench” represents the crowds of the daily life and its attached cocoon is a door to escape from it. The third chair is called “The lovers chair” and it pretends to confront the two sides of behaving: private and public. It explores different ways of communication, it becomes a connecting tunnel.

From  Dezeen http://www.dezeen.com/2008/04/28/evolution-by-nacho-carbonell/#more-12077

Designer Rober langborn

When the vase which stand for life and beauty are wraped with bullet ,when evil hide in a beautifully appearance

from Yanko design

The umbrella is an incredible invention but nobody has a way to prevent a wet dripping umbrella from creating a mess in your house. We’ve settles for umbrella stands that catch the water or my method, leave it outside. The Inside Out Umbrella solves this problem by fully inverting into a small bag. All the wet drippy stuff stays inside. Just brills.

Designer: Seung Hee Son

by Andreas Bittis

Andreas Bittis has re-launched TranslucentConcrete - load-bearing concrete containing optical fibres that means you can see through it. A bit.

TranslucentConcrete is a combination of optical fibres and fine concrete. Thousands of fibres run side by side transmitting light between the two surfaces of each element. Because of their small size the fibres blend into concrete becoming a component of the material like small pieces of ballast. In this manner, the result is not only having the two materials mixed - glass in concrete - but a third, new material, which is homogeneous in its inner structure and on its main surfaces as well.

In theory, a wall structure created out of TranslucentConcrete blocks can be a couple of meters thick as the fibres work almost without any loss in light up till 20 meters! Moreover, the blocks are load-bearing and provide the same effect with both natural and artificial light. Glass fibres lead light by points between the wall-surfaces. Shadows on the lighter side will appear with sharp outlines on the darker one. Even the colours remain the same! Such a wall with glass fibre-pixels acts as if scanner and screen are united. This special effect creates the general impression that thickness and weight of this concrete wall disappear.

TranslucentConcrete blocks are produced depending on the aesthetical wishes and structural needs of the architects project. Basically all sizes of pre-cast concrete are possible: from small bricks, to façade plates or passable paving stones, all illuminated from beneath. Since the amount of optical fibre is only 4%, TranslucentConcrete blocks have the same technical data as the concrete used for them. The same flexibility occurs with the fibres: Right now the diameter of the fibre can be chosen from 2micro- to 2 millimetres. And also the technique of making TranslucentConcrete blocks can differ according to the needs of the project: from a slight “diffuse” aesthetic to a certain grid or even a logo.

Moreover TranslucentConcrete is a high density concrete – according to the extremely fine diameter of the fibres the other aggregates need to be chosen carefully. TranslucentConcrete elements are joined together through splicing or agglutinating or in conjunction with any common framework.

Talented architects and engineers should feel challenged to create structures of extraordinary beauty and innovation. TranslucentConcrete is the first step to what might become the building material of the future.

In a new concept by FurnID, “Dias” is a unique and one of a kind piece. It is a drawer system that works like no other. When admiring from a far, Dias appears to be a distinctive object claiming its space on the wall. With a face covered by two-toned pyramids and a top made into a flat surface. Once the Dias drawer is opened, it is revealed the hidden space to place some of your most prized treasures. Instead of pulling the drawer to open, it slides to the side, much like that of a matchbox. What is hidden inside depends on the owner. Diaz was designed to allow placement of objects inside away from distraction.

Designer: Bo Strange

When decorating our homes, we place a lot of self into the design and style that feels most comfortable to us. We like to create an atmosphere unique to ourselves. After strenuous days at work or the overall stressors of life in general, coming home to a peace filled environment is what it is all about.

Here is where the Brooklyn Blinds come in. Made from Europly, a completely sustainable wood, these vertical blinds create this much craved atmosphere. The abstract pattern was inspired by the bark of the Birch trees which line McCarren Park in Brooklyn.

With uniquely placed apertures in the wooden blinds, the creation of a serene sensation overtakes you as the light passes through. The lighting changes and moves with the rising and setting of the sun. Not only do these blinds create a unique experience inside the home, but also to those on the outside. At night, while walking or driving past, the viewer can see the dancing of light inside the home.

from yanko design

Designer: Carrie Solomon

Philippe Starck: Why design?

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/197

from: http://www.marmarco.com/ilovemmco.domesa.html