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Design What

Design What featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Click Light

The Click Light introduces a unique element of personalization and interaction into the interior lighting design. One can connect any number of shelf units and let the lighting ropes stretch, drop, tie and twist in endless combinations, creating unique and dynamic individual spaces. The Click Light enables a direct interaction and feel with the user, amplifying the experience and the personal connection. Usually, the designer enjoys all the fun from creating a piece and testing different variations, with the Click Light’s new magnetic mechanism, the creative process shifts to the user.

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Beale MeasureFill

The Beale MeasureFill Touch kitchen faucet employs industry-leading technology to deliver an adjustable set volume of water on demand - ranging from a half cup/4 oz to up to 5 cups/40 oz - achieving precise measurement and eliminating the need for a measuring cup. This faucet offers the added benefit of providing touch on/off functionality, ideal for when the user’s hands are dirty or full. A touch of the wrist or back of the hand on the dial is all it takes to operate the faucet.

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Drum

Drum targets the feeling of weightlessness, this aspect is completed by a blink evocating the creole steelpan. This qualitative pouf promotes fun and happiness in offices and houses, the zero-gravity aspect of a suspended seating makes from an everyday gesture something special and unusual breaking the monotony and stark landscape of some office spaces.

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Aestus

Aestus is the first design project by architecture and wood researcher Oliver David Krieg. Conceived as a series of stratified wooden vases in search for a new synthesis of traditional materials and modern technology, Aestus is both a story of material exploration and of technical prowess. Carved from hundreds of layers of wood by an industrial robot, the vases capture the fluidity of the machine's movements in the depth of the wooden texture. Each of the four vases is an expression of the aesthetics of a modern manufacturing process, as well as a statement for contemporary wood design.

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Portuguese Roots

The Design was intented to have long lines stretched to the limit and it was designed to give proportion to Comfort . The aesthetics was important, comfort was a priority, but the most challenging part in this work was the resistance. The lines are simple but the construction was a chalenge . At the end, it was the perfect symbiosis between Art and Craftmanship that had the ability to transform a simple piece of wood in a piece of art .

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Olah

Olah is a wall sconce using a circline fluorescent bulb, that is integral to the lighting design. Ingenuity and a love of engineering enabled the creation of this light without any visible fasteners. The light is unique because of its versatility in hanging options. The light can be mounted in four different ways, using a specifically designed universal bulb holder, and a distinctly designed mounting plate to install the sconce. What you receive with Olah is four lights in one.

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