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Inspirations.
LENS°ASS
Bart Lens (°1959) obtained his diploma from the Provinciaal Hoger Architectuur Instituut in 1982. A...
Frank Stella: Radical Abstraction
In 1959, a newcomer in his early twenties takes New York’s art scene by storm: the American Frank ...
DIY Design
I have been inspired by penccil´s DIY design project:
http://www.penccil.com/call.php?id=1
“Do ...
Venetian paper
Venetian marbled paper by Alberto Varese, one the few true Venetian artisans still working in the ci...
Wooden Cloth
Wooden Cloth by Nathalie Dackelid is designed to adapt itself in size to the many different situatio...
Low Tech can be smart and fun
A curated collection and workshop on handmade and sustainable objects, made in northern Thailand and...
Japanese Swiss Greek
Shibui is the name of a homeware and accessories company based in Switzerland, created by Greek desi...
Jordi López Aguiló
Jordi López Aguiló, born in Valencia 1983, worked with JDS Architects Copenhagen, Ibos et Vitart P...
Cyril Porchet: Reina
1-Bit Symphony
Tristan Perich studied math, music and computer science at Columbia University, and received a maste...
100 Years Caran d´Ache Pencils
Caran d´Ache - Maison de Haute Ecriture - is celebrating its 100th birth year in 2015. Established ...
Merry del Val
Studio Merry was founded in 2005 by Alfonso Merry del Val in Madrid.
Andréason and Leibel
Kristian Andréason and Kristin Leibel have worked with clients such as IKEA of Sweden and Fagerhult...
Walter Ballmer
Walter Ballmer was born in 1923 in Liestal, Switzerland and studied at the School of Applied Arts in...
Henry Franks
Henry Franks is a designer interested in human behaviour in relation to objects. His current work se...
Steambent
Steam bending is a traditional process steeped in history. It was once a vital practice, paramount t...
Hanna Tunemar
Hanna Tunemar studied at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm. She worked at at Katja Pettersson ...
Extra National Assembly
Extra National Assembly #1 is an autonomous place for assembly to discuss what a society can be beyo...
Posters from Germany, Austria, Switzerland
In the spirit of media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s widely known book The Medium is the Massage: An...
Landscapes within
Wiktoria Szawiel, born in Minsk, Belarus, studied at Design Academy Eindhoven, at Staatliche Akadem...
Story w/out Story
«Story w/out Story» is an ongoing multivolume book project about the content and origin of our col...
This is your God
“I have come here to chew bubble gum and to kick ass. And I’m all out of bubble gum.”To celebr...
Moisés Hernández
Moisés Hernández is a Mexican born designer who studied at ECAL Lausanne. His hometown Mexico City...
Daniel Carsten
Daniel Carsten is an independent art director and designer since 2009. He was art director at Acne f...
Noa Ikeuchi and Tommaso Nani
Noa Ikeuchi and Tommaso Nani met while they were attending the Istituto Europeo di Design and starte...
Michal Fargo
Michal Fargo studied at Bezalel academy of art and design in Jerusalem. She won 2nd place in the Bie...
Caroline Olsson
Design by Caroline Olsson. She studied Product Design at the Oslo & Akershus University College in N...
Olivetti Typewriters
Austin Calhoon, born 1982, is a Still Life photographer with a background in fashion and industrial ...
Nikolo Kerimov
Finnish designer with Russian roots Nikolo Kerimov currently studies at the School of Arts, Design a...
Matthieu Lavanchy
Matthieu Lavanchy lives and works in Paris, France. He studied at the University of Art and Design L...
Still Life
Photographer Jennifer Niederhauser Schlup studied at University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL), S...
Bild Bauten
The rapid development of computer and information technology has fundamentally changed the relations...
Vonnegut/Kraft
Vonnegut/Kraft is a design studio founded in New York City in 2011 by Katrina Vonnegut and Brian Kra...
Rita Studio
Graduating from UQAM (Montreal) and ECAL (Lausanne) in graphic and industrial design, Karine Corbeil...
Chimères
A la fois peintre et sculpteur « à l’aiguille », je concentre mes recherches textiles autour de...
The Nineties
Michel Comte was born 1954 in Zurich, Switzerland. The professionally trained art restorer approache...
Chris Gautschi: Book design
Chris Gautschi is a Swiss graphic designer who graduated from the Ecole d’Arts Appliqués in La Ch...
Jehs + Laub
Jehs + Laub are Markus Jehs (born in 1965 in Stuttgart) and Jürgen Laub ( born in 1964 in Ulm). The...
Jose Duarte: DIY Visualization
Jose Duarte is a designer specialising in information visualization and visual communication.
Mathieu Missiaen
Photographer Mathieu Missiaen is interested in the ways in which people will identify the reality of...
Glass by Thaddeus Wolfe
Thaddeus Wolfe's primary body of work -- the Assemblage series -- began as an exploration of mineral...
Herbert Matter: Orientations of Architecture
With heavyweight collaborators such as Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Buckminster Fuller, Albert Kahn,...
Alessandro Gottardo
Alessandro Gottardo was born in Pordenone in 1977. He studied art in Venice and illustration at the ...
Germany, Austria, Switzerland: Houses of the Year 2014
Houses of the year 2014 by Deutsches Architekturmuseum and Callwey publishers presents residential b...
Three-One by Mejdstudio
El Lissitzky and Hans Arp: The Isms
Die Kunstismen (Les Ismes de l´art, The Isms of Art), designed and published by El Lissitzky and Ha...
Luxury & Craftsmanship
Graduation works from ECAL - Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship.
Slow Wood
Slow Wood è un giocattolo in legno per comporre panini fuori dai binari della ristorazione di massa...
100 Years of Swiss Design
To the present day, design in Switzerland has the reputation of being honest, precise, sober and use...
Palitos lamp by Sergio Mendoza
Palitos [spanish for ´little sticks] is a lamp of contrasts. The wooden chaos and the simple metal ...
George Nakashima
One of the formative furniture designers of the 20th Century, George Nakashima is a central figure i...
The Object of Desire, Sweet Jane
Charlie Davidson´s chaise lounge has been in development for the last 10 years. This month it will ...
Punar plywood chair
Maxim Scherbakov from Saint-Petersburg, Russia studied in Saint-Petersburg's industrial and art acad...
Philip Bastian von Hase: Reverse Sitting
'Trialog' is a three legged wooden chair, designed for reverse sitting. It has a back rest that also...
20th Century Silver Tea and Coffee Sets
Today the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Leipzig holds some 300 silver objects. Silver colle...
PESTRIN SUSPENSION LAMP
Pestrin, suspension lamp whose name derives from the Venetian dialect indicating the place where mil...
Stick suspension lamp
A pendant lamp doesn´t have to take on a specific shape. The label´s spindly, slender Stick Pendan...
Ian Stell
Ian Stell holds a BFA from the School of the Art institute in Chicago, and an MFA from the Rhode Isl...
Flat Pack
DIY furniture by Designer Konstantin Achkov of Tenom Furniture from Sofia, Bulgaria. His flat-pack f...
ZPstudio Tools
ZPstudio Tools is a self-production project by ZPstudio, a Florence-based architecture and design of...
Felix Pfäffli
Graphic designer Felix Pfäffli was born in 1986. In 2010 he graduated and started his own studio «...
Larry Sultan: Editorial
"Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy’s jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that sedu...
Rasmus Norlander: Still life
Rasmus Norlander is a Swedish photographer specialized in architecture, construction and technical p...
Seventies Logos
A collection of approximately 1900 international corporate logos from the nineteen-seventies, many o...
Demian Conrad
Demian Conrad studio is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Working mainly in the cultural field (cinema...
Anouchka Potdevin
Depuis 2003, Anouchka Potdevin crée du mobilier et des objets basés sur la récupération et le re...
Bohman+Sjöstrand
Photographers Bohman+Sjöstrand have been working together since 2005. They are based in Stockholm, ...
Waiting for the deal
Where is the state of the world affairs? Is the press into it? Or the public? Are we all sitting pre...
Jim Kanzanjian
Oregon-based artist and photographer Jim Kanzanjian combines and digitally manipulates his images, c...
Mindcraft 14 Milano
MINDCRAFT is an exhibition concept showcasing some of Denmark's most talented craftspeople and desig...
also:
Sole
Dining chair "Sole"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Isole
Couch tables "Isole"
Design: Mario Gagliardi
Villici
Wooden toy figurines "Villici"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
SALTO
Sculpture
curve wood
Title is affranchir la ligne, a public art commission for the lobby of a sports complex, plays with...
Archip-elles
Swiss graphic designers We Play created this pop-art inspired, fun poster series for the Archipelles...
Les Concerts du mercredi
The idea of Swiss based graphic design practice We Play Design for these posters for Les Concerts du...
Construction of boat hull
made by me at the CFPArts school in Geneva
Cellular Automata: A design language for industrial silk
Handmade Mudmee silk is part of the cultural heritage of Thailand and Laos with a tradition reaching...
We Ar
University of Sunderland MA Glass and Ceramics Show
BKM/Barozzi/Veiga
The extension of the Villa Planta, which will accommodate the Bündner Kunstmuseum, is an exercise o...
Thai Silk and Rattan
In Thailand, Mario Gagliardi directed a collaboration with silk weavers from Buri Ram and rattan fur...
Sky Walk
The Dolní Morava tower Sky Walk by Zdenek Franek is a conceptual building, and it offers visitors ...
Peter Zumthor: Thinking Architecture
A selection of remarkable work by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.
Beat Machine
Koka Nikoladze is a Georgian artist based in Norway educated as a violinist, composer & technology d...
Christian Herdeg: Kunst und Bau
Christian Herdeg was born 1942 in Zurich. Trained as a photographer, cameraman and lighting technici...
ЯРОСЛАВ МИСОНЖНИКОВ: ODNOSVECHNIK
ODNOSVECHNIK is a candle holder in marble and wood.
Designer Yaroslav Misonzhnikov, born 1988 in ...
Bird´s Nest
I am often struck by the nests that crows build using clothes hangers. Hangers are not only durable ...
Poul Hundevad and the Guldhøj chair
The large barrow from the Bronze Age with the promising name of Guldhøj (Gold Hill) in Southern Jut...
Amor Vacui
Domink von Moos, born 1990, studied architecture at ETH Zurich.
Attachment
Chairs by German designers Yvonne Fehling & Jennie Peiz.
Julien Notter and Sébastien Vigne
Basé à Lausanne, Notter + Vigne est un atelier graphique fondé en 2002 par les designers Julien N...
Carlo Mollino: Tables and Chairs
Carlo Mollino (1905 - 1973) studied art history at the University of Ghent and architecture at the U...
Mousarris
Stelios Mousarris worked for Fosters and Partners as a modelmaker and for Duffylondon as an assistan...
Janine Abraham & Dirk Jan Rol
Janine Abraham took classes at the Ecole Camondo, trained at Jean-René and Maxime Old Caillette, an...
:(mala leche)
:(mala leche Design) est une marque fondée en 2014 par Elisabeth Baeza. Installée à Bruxelles, El...
What You Think You Know
Philip Herrman is graphic designer in Zurich, Switzerland. Clients include Reto Geiser for Standpunk...
Aspartame: Adrien Rovero
Born in 1981, Adrien Rovero holds a Master’s in Industrial Design from ECAL Lausanne. He opened hi...
J1
Created by Jae Won Cho, AKA J1. J1 studio is a furniture design studio located in Los Angeles produc...
Technological Exaptation
Images by photographer and set designer Maxime Guyon, currently living and working between Lyon (Fra...
I+N: Gohanan
Piggy bank "Gohanan" by atelier I+N. Born in 1984, Ismael and Nathan Studer received their degrees i...
Müller-Brockmann
Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914 – 1996) was one of the main exponents of the Swiss International Sty...
Spin it again
The stool "Spin" is the result of a collaboration of designer Staffan Holm with Swedish company Swed...
Pryor Console
The CASTE line of furniture and accessories is designed by Ty Best. Ty was born and raised in Montan...
Jean Arp: Randomness
Randomness was a key part of Jean Arp’s work right from the creation of the first dadaist group in...
Le Moigne
Swiss designer Nicholas Le Moigne studied at ECAL/University of art and design Lausanne, where he is...
Foam wood table
The wood has been planed down to its constituent wood particles and has been recast. As the wood sta...
Digital Iron
Mario Sampietro, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, manages the Sampietro 1927 forge wit...
Analogue
"Produced between 2006 and 2009, the Analogue Miniatures series was my attempt to pay tribute to ear...
Chalet C7, Andes Mountains
The Chalet C7 is located in the middle of the Andes Mountains, at 2990 meters above sea level, not f...
A Mirror Darkly
Nick Ross was born in Scotland in 1986. He studied at Gray´s School of Art in Aberdeen on the Indus...
Hiroyuki Tanaka
Architect Hiroyuki Tanaka was born in Osaka. He studied at Keio University and worked with Carbondal...
