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Swedish design collective People People lets their work do the talking. Splitting their time between client commissions and lab work, the creators of the successful Kickstarter project, the Transparent Speaker, are now set to dip their toes into the waters of the timepiece with a new pocket watch currently...
March 5th, 2013 § Comments Off § permalink
For many Westerners, remembering one's favorite brand of sake can be difficult due to linguistic differences. Removing that complication marks one of the core ideas behind Small Sake, a new drink from Hong Kong-based Swede, Pontus Karlsson. Karlsson has focused on taste as much as the name of his...
February 27th, 2013 § Comments Off § permalink
Next month, Humans since 1982 unveils its latest installation "A million times" at Design Days Dubai, which will incorporate 300 interconnected analog clocks working together to form a singular installation that measures almost 3.5 meters wide. Each clock contains a motor for the minute hand and one for the...
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Despite its Japanese core and status as one of the oldest denim labels, Edwin has been a relatively slow burner in the raw denim, heritage area of the market. Even while sporting one of the most visually arresting selvedge lines—the rainbow selvedge—the brand as a whole has felt like...
January 15th, 2013 § Comments Off § permalink
There's nothing like a good back story to add extra depth to the work of an already gleamingly creative artisan, like that of jewelry designer Mike Årsjö. Tapped as one of the top new innovators from a hotbed of Nordics, Årsjö was born in Puerto Montt, Chile and then...
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The enfants terribles of the industrial design world return with yet another potential banger of a product, hot on the heels of the OP-1, the synthesizer that made it cool to tickle the ivories. This time Swedish firm Teenage Engineering plundered the license cabinet of Stig Carlsson, the Swedish...
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It's hard to find something cuter than a button. Shiny and simple, the notion serves a single, important purpose—aside from providing fairytale currency—but can be downright infuriating when it chooses to go asunder. Enter Tic, a cheeky little device developed in Sweden by Karolina Rantfors, Mats Gabrielsson and Ljubo...