International Design Council Magazine

International Design Council Magazine

International Design Council Magazine featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Monza

The design of Monza finds its echo in the forms and motifs from the 70s which led to the creation of a radiator-like timekeeper. The remarkable feature of this clock, compared to the classical ones, is that the metal plates are substituted with 2 hardened crystal glass discs with welded stainless bushes on them. This technique gives a possibility to show the beauty of the skeleton mechanism. The transgressive case shape has rejected all limits that traditional manufacturing usually faces. Monza highlights the handcraft peculiarities made in Italy and the classical peculiarities of horology.

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Town Longquan Tower Liquor

The design uses the concept of the tower to carry out the creative, there unique bottle-shaped wine superimposed into a tower, in China there is "no three without a feast" in which the meaning of more than three, two friends, drinking wine is not beautiful. A person sitting in meditation on top of a bottle lid means that wine is not only for the relief of sorrow, but also for introspection through wine tasting.

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Stripes

The ten packagings in the series are designed to be suitable as gift packagings and to provide a pleasing unboxing experience. Each box has a stripe pattern printed on it, which is repeated on the sleeve that closes the box. The cardboard parts of the box, as well as the sleeve and a brochure, are made of recycled cardboard. A bagasse paper tray is used to protect and present the contents. The complete packagings in this series can be disposed of in paper recycling bins.

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Chained

The Chained project came due to the pandemic needs but focusing in versatility and comfort. It is based on a mask with a good and different design sewn with an antiviral fabric for the base, a few nickel chains on the left side and another going around the neck. Along with a hand drawing jaw line, human teeth and a chequered pattern in a black synthetic leather for the right side of the mask. The Chained Mask project is a study made by the designer on a illustration course in London about the underground life and creations of Balenciaga in Paris Fashion Week 2020.

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Perceived Design Value

The postdoctoral research in design clarifies the added value of design from the perspectives of users spanning five generations and four socioeconomic class groups by recommending perceived value indicators: convenient, aesthetic, useful, durable, safe and singular for products and intelligible, accessible, perceivable, timely and experienceable characterizing services that measure satisfaction, happiness, and well-being as end results of product and service usage.

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ReCover

ReCover is a conceptual service offered by smartphone manufacturers to help users easily turn obsolete phones into functional devices such as webcam, security camera, or touchpad. App finds options based on the phone's condition and then installs custom OS designed to optimize phone for its new function. User places the phone in the case where it becomes the heart of a new product. ReCover helps users to save phones from the landfill and acquire new useful products for less. Manufacturers can profit from old devices by providing subscription services with no new hardware development.

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Design interview of the day

Read the latest interviews and conversations on design, creativity and innovation between design journalist and world-famous designers, artists and architects. See latest design projects and award-winning designs by famous designers, artists, architects and innovators. Discover new insights on creativity, innovation, arts, design and architecture. Learn about design processes of great designers.

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