Bomma’s Hi-Tech Crystal

Czech designers stray from tradition to produce an innovative collection of precision-cut glassware

by Adam tch The Czech Republic is famous for traditional handmade glass. Czech glass is associated with precise, handmade work created in old-fashioned factories using time-honored techniques. But two years ago the forward-thinking company Bohemia Machinelocated in Svtl, the cradle of genuine Bohemian cut crystallooked to create a way of producing high-end glassware using robotic technology. Bohemia Machine was founded in 1992 as a company …

Hollywood Star Chart by Dorothy

The British design studio reimagines constellations as cherished classic and modern American films

British design and ideas studio Dorothy has just unveiled two Hollywood Star Chart prints, each of which re-imagine, and re-name, the constellations after some of the most culturally significant films to have emerged from American cinema since 1927. The Golden Age Star Chart is, Dorothy tells us, “based on the night sky over Los Angeles on 6 October 1927, the release date of Al Jolson’s …

Hangar Design Group Travel Guide

Italy's renowned design agency releases user-friendly mobile app for creatives on the move

With well over 30 years of design ideation, innovation and experience under their belt, Italian creative agency Hangar Design Group continues to look toward an ever-evolving frontier. Driven by instincts to travel and to create, the same minds that produced “Ideas not Airships“—an award-winning commemorative tome with which we are still enamored—recently launched the Hangar Travel Guide. Including countless countries and cities across all seven …