If it was up to us, all the best design in the world would be posted within the Parfois Portfolio… But… its not up to us. Stumbling the web we often bump into things worth sharing. The world wide web is so full off great things that will never end up in our portfolio, but which we want the world to see. For this we created our blog. At this moment there 4 of us blogging on a regular basis.Work, studies and social life makes that there are weeks with a lot of posts, and weeks without. But we’ll do our best in bringing you the nicest shit on a acceptable basis.
‘Want to know more? Click 'about' in the bottom menu’
In the dreamy Le Monde des Montagnes (The World of Mountains), an ECAL graduate project by Camille Scherrer awarded the Pierre Bergé prize for Best European Design Diploma in 2008, a regular book about the Swiss mountains sits on a table. Above hovers a camera disguised as a desk lamp thats linked to a nearby monitor. But when a user adjusts the lamp or moves the book in her hands, the picture on the screen depicts a fantasy land where peculiar, other-worldy images—images that arent there in the hardcopy—glide across the pages Snowflakes fall, birds fly, forest creatures peer from trees.
Parfois, up and running again. Amen! Let’s start of with this great project from Fabian Nehne (German) & Martin Meier (Swiss). The German and Swiss productdesigners Fabian Nehne and Martin Meier recently finished this pendant light, a consequent translation of the additive colour mixing into an adequate luminaire. Martin Meier is currently working as a seniour designer lead at IDEO Munich, Fabian Nehne is senior designer at Deutsche Telekom.
These still are renders, but I think it’s a nice interpretation of this well known colour system. >> Read more
Dear visitors, Parfois has been offline for a couple of days now. We moved to a new server, and things took longer than we planned. Right now the Blog is back online, but there are still some things to configure. We expect to be up and running again on monday. Thank you all for your patience.
These days it seems to be a trend to use triangles and geometry to create strange perspectives. I must say that I like it! Here’s a house designed by McBride Charles Ryan architects. This building was built for the Honorary Consul of Monaco and is the first to be granted naming rights outside Monaco. On a site of just 101 square metres, the building is four storeys high and includes a cafe, consular activity, offices, meeting areas and a rooftop garden. >> Read more
My second post about Mr. Szymon , this time a photos taken in Tokyo. I was checking his work again, and I must say, it got me again. The strange atmosphere and light in his pictures are fascinating. Be sure to stop by his site. Enjoy >> Read more
Very nice idea from Istanbul based designer Beste Miray. Strange that it hasn’t been done before, but I’ve never seen it. Only thing is, you have to fold you envelopes your self from now. Read on to see the rest of the images.
Mars is the fourth planet from our Sun in the Solar System. Out of the various planets and moons in our Solar System, Mars perhaps bears the most similarity to Earth, featuring an atmosphere, polar ice caps, and remnants of tectonic activity on the planet’s surface. Mars has fascinated both astronomers and the general public for years, and has been the subject of countless movies and fiction works. Currently, several nations in the world are planning to send missions to Mars for exploration, and NASA’s Spirit Rover recently ended a 6 year exploration of the surface after becoming trapped in sand. Pictures posted here captured by telescope and by space probe. >> Read more
I would love to share this chair. The lines just look right to me, and it looks very comfortable. It’s a shame there is so little information about it on the net. Their website a complete disaster, it claims to work with firefox, but I have my doubts. Anyway, enjoy! >> Read more
As a master-project I am organizing a competition round the Cathedral of Antwerp. In this concept architecture and sculpture gets merged together. The assignment embodies the disarming question: Design a second tower for the Cathedral of Antwerp. The given fact of a missing element in an existing structure and city-layout inspires to an autonomic completion for everybody. By organizing a competition or international brainstorm I would like to put the emphasis on the absence and by doing so emphasize the Cathedral itself. The contestants receive a picture of the Cathedral where they realize their design in a sort of overlay. I don’t want to exclude anybody, it will be a truly open competition. The results can be a 3D render, a ruff concept or a simple black marker drawing. The design can vary from inflatable structures to melted towers. I am communicating to all major European universities in the departements of Architecture, Graphic design and Visual Arts and true a large international cultural work-field. A selection of submissions will be exposed in a traveling exhibition and they will all be published (in the extend of the realizable). This publication wil showcase a big diversity of filled in absence and will function again as source of inspiration.
So start designing and submit your work! Right here at, Designing Absence.
During this year’s Stocholm Furniture Fair the Swedish designers of Akka presented this foldable table at the Greenhouse, the forum for young designers. In all different positions, even folded, the cantilvered table stands out for its charming appearance. This might be due to the slightly bent skids, which give the table a figurative character.
Akka is a design-studio located in Göteborg, Sweden. They do industrial design, furniture, illustration and graphic design. >> Read more
pages:
categories:
bloggers:
archives:
search:
admin:
subscribe: