Mr. & Mrs. Kahn

Ecooler, Mey and Boaz Kahn

Porcelain screen that uses passive, natural cooling methods. Running water flows through the channels of the hollow ceramic tiles, as air passes through the screen the room is cooled. The pattern was inspired by traditional Middle Eastern mashrabia.

Flaster

IVANKA recently launched its stunning Camelion floor and wall tiles at the London Design Festival. The tiles are Ivanka's concrete concoction FLASTER, a cast high performance concrete suitable for indoor and outdoor use. Available in thirteen stock colors, custom colors available upon request,  and in any configuration imagined.

OCD

After spending the better part of the last two days redesigning our imprint, splitting hairs and fussing over minutia, we are fittingly left with a shiny new look and 250,000 Euro cents.

Stefan Sagmeister's contribution to Urban Play 2008, old news yes, but in my defense it was an Amsterdam happening. The pattern was designed with four shades, as such pennies had to be sorted into dark, less dark, less light, and light categories. In all the project took a week to execute.

It was swept up by police the next day.

Luke Jerram

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SARS | Smallpox | HIV | Swine Flu

Luke Jerram is an inventor, a researcher, an amateur scientist and a multidisciplinary artist. Continuing our theme of gentleman scientists, we present his beautifully articulate series "Glass Microbiology". The series was designed in consultation with a virologist and produced in collaboration with a team of specialized glassblowers. Transparent glass question the arbitrary coloring in the medical illustration of viruses and how these colors affect their emotional reception. More importantly, the sculptures bring these infectious diseases out of the shadows and into the physical world, allowing viewers to face the threats in an entirely new arena.

anonymous letter to the artist:

Dear Luke, 

I just saw a photo of your glass sculpture of HIV.

I can't stop looking at it. Knowing that millions of those guys are in me, and will be a part of me for the rest of my life. Your sculpture, even as a photo, has made HIV much more real for me than any photo or illustration I've ever seen. It's a very odd feeling seeing my enemy, and the eventual likely cause of my death, and finding it so beautiful.

Thank you.

Demakersvan

I first read about Demakersvan and Lace Fence in an issue of Dwell some time ago. The three strong and quite young firm have made bounds since.

This piece was done in conjunction with "The Face of Lace", a year long exhibition promoting the the history and innovation of lace in Bruges. The design surrounding the flour mill was fittingly inspired by an old bakery logo.

They will also have work in the upcoming "Lace in Transition". The Design Center at Philadelphia University commissioned three design firms to create site specific installations inspired by the center's extensive Quaker Lace Company collection. The show will open on September 24 and run through April 3, 2010.