Luisa Bocchietto is an architect, designer and President of ADI – Associazione per il Disegno Industriale. In 1985 she graduated in Milan with Marco Zanuso and graduated at IED in architecture and interior design. Actually, she has a studio on[…]

Who first said that China lacks in glamour, quality and cultural background is wrong. Far from the hip-luxorious boutique, there are places that nose out and promote the local creativity. Wuhao is a “temporay display box” held in central Bejing[…]

Workshop like the place where hands use to get dirty. That is what Jerry Helling, president of Bernhardt Design probably saw when he first visited Kiki van Jeijk and Joost van Bleiswijk’s Studio in Eindhoven. Likely the farest thing from[…]

If “creating products is a dialogue”, in the web age dialogue can move into a digital platform called World Wide Local where users and suppliers connect with each other to share their local experience and findings about the same products.[…]

We meet Enrico Bassi, designer graduated at Milan Polytechnic and coordinator of the first italian Fablab, launched in april in Torino. Fablab stands for Fabrication Laboratory: a place that is nor a factory and nor a workshop where you can[…]

 To what extent can porcelain be manipulated? The craftsman can create in limited forms, the italian-japanese duo Minale-Maeda overcomes the technical limits and commits to technology to realize a unique and original tableware made by porcelain. How? Using CadCam Process[…]

 ”Power of Making” the exhibition currently showing at the Victoria & Albert Museum until 2nd January 2012. It presents 100 crafted objects -by professionals and amateurs – in a cabinet of curiosities that explores traditional and time-honoured ways of making,[…]

 In the field between industry and self made design, there are companies like Danese introducing undefinable topic about dialogue and research. It is what happens in Waste Not: the motion of a set of new industrial grammatical foundations based on[…]

There are regions where self made design is an expression of the local spirit: Brasil is one of them. Contaminations and spontaneous creativity are part of the country’s DNA as well as the Campana brothers, the most famous brasilian designers.[…]

 More and more often, galleries are turning their focus from art to design, searching professionals with hybrid skills. Self-made design is under their attention because of the values it communicates: experimentation, uniqueness, aestethic and sense. The same features characterizes the[…]

  Yachiyo took 3000 hours to construct. This metal rug is made using very intricate form of chain mail from Japanese method. An inconceivable deal for industry, but an incredible piece of work by the designer Philippe Malouin and 10 of[…]

 Enrico Morteo is a design critic and historian, former director of Abitare magazine and now contributor for several periodicals. In 2011 he has been curator of the exhibition Unicità d’Italia. Made in Italia e identità nazionale opened in Rome on[…]

Jan Plecháč, Prague designer was the promoter of this strange meeting. Being in love with wire, a very common and tradition local texture, he choose the best blacksmith and supported him to redesign a collection of iconic chairs like Red[…]

  Self-production, free from industry limits, explores unusual territories dipping into new sensorial and narrative dimensions. So, a texture, normally meant to be fragile, becomes as a protagonist of a furniture collection. Debbie Wijnskamp, twenty-seven-year-old Dutch designer, chose this material[…]

 Core77, a very popular web magazine focused on design, established its first Award to celebrate the richness of the design profession and its practitioners. Fifteen categories: in addition to Lighting, Service, Interactive, Social, Graphic and the various branches of contemporary[…]

London based but born in Tel Aviv, Yael Mer and Shay Akalay share life, thoughts ideas and project and a studio where they self produce what is not yet. Like the collection created turning two-dimensional sheet materials into functional forms.[…]

How can you alter the status of a standardized object to a one-off product? Jean-Baptiste Fastrez, french designer, aimed to combine both serial and hand-made production. Fastrez’s experimentation focuses on an electric kettle which pass from having a merely functional[…]

To give works a contemporary, poetic and transcultural character, you often need observing materials and techniques in their authentic surroundings. Emmanuel Babled, french-born but living in Italy, spent 15 years with Venetian glass blowers on the island of Murano. That’s[…]

 A series of table lamps that combine geometric forms, color and various materials (above, aluminum and wood) to create small scale architectural volumes. Peculiar attachments is a terribly ‘eye-catching’ collection designed and produced by D. Lab, both an incubation centre[…]

   Awarded as Best Domestic Design in 2011 by the magazine Wallpaper, Tafelstukken is a five-pieces collection designed by Isaacs and Laurens Manders, both graduates of the Design Academy Eindhoven. Made from oak and porcelain, they are ‘a contemporary take[…]

  Located in Seattle, Chadhaus use beautiful woods and has got a very cohesive design aesthetic: an impeccable DIY style looking at the European style. Its attention to detail together with the simplicity and beauty of their designs really bring[…]

 Called L’Etreinte, the young designer’s collection uses Zelfo, a material that’s 95% water when applied then shrinks as it dries to tightly embrace the joints. Zelfo can be made from recycled paper and textiles, or renewable sources of cellulose like hemp[…]

His portfolio includes exhibition stands, events and product displays for clients such as Nike, Stone Island, Dior and Gucci. Continuously, he works on his own collection of furniture and products as well as designing individual pieces for private clients. One[…]

Se è vero, come dice Enzo Mari, che “progettare corrisponde a una pulsione profonda dell’uomo, come l’istinto di sopravvivenza, la fame, il sesso”, allora il design autoprodotto è nato insieme con l’uomo: rappresentando, per secoli, uno dei pochi modi conosciuti[…]