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Milan Design Week 2019: The Lexus Design Award

Innovators of today who are sure to improve our tomorrow

2 April 20191 April 2019

Presented in partnership with Lexus

Founded in 2013, the Lexus Design Award continues to seek out and acknowledge innovative and ambitious work by some of the world’s most promising young designers. 2019’s goal is no different yet the program is like nothing we’ve seen before—this year’s participants were encouraged to follow the guiding principles behind the Lexus brand: to anticipate, innovative, captivate and produce for the future. The designs highlighted …

Tom Dixon Releases In-House Developed Marbled Material

Link — Design

Resembling three-dimensional marbled paper, but with the weight of stone, Swirl is a new material developed by Tom Dixon Studio. It made its debut at Parisian design fair Maison & Objet, in the form of bookends, candleholders and more. Dixon says that the mysterious material comes from the marble industry’s recycled, powdered residue which is then poured and cut. Read more at Dezeen.

Via dezeen.com

Posted on 22 January 201925 January 2019

Studio Visit: Fameed Khalique

Surface materials galore inside the designer's West London treasure trove

Cajsa Carlson

8 January 20199 January 2019

Look — Design

“Some of the projects that you want to cry over are the projects that no one will ever see”