Recent Posts
24Jan
The latest print and marketing designs are now in the portfolio.
23Jan
Hello and Welcome to the new brand for Rebecca Calvert freelance Design. The decision was made to try expand the business through adding a business name and building the Knack sub-brands to include, Knack Products,… Read more »
25Aug
Living Products: Funktionide Part II
In: Freelance designer London, MA Design Studies/Applied Imagination, Product Design
Funktionide Part II from eltopo on Vimeo. “Based on EAP-technology “Funktionide” is a concept for an emotional robot that substitutes human contact. In a future where technology will play a huge part in our lifes… Read more »
25Aug
Identity is how you define someone or something from other people or thing – otherwise it would be identical. Masahiko Sato explores this idea of identity in his exhibition ‘the definition of self’ exhibition at 21_21 design sight…. Read more »
24Aug
What role will textile design play in the creation of biological products of the future?
In: Fashion, Freelance designer London, MA Design Studies/Applied Imagination
I believe biotechnology and biological products will be very important in the future and necessary to develop towards a world which works with, rather than works from the world around it. Amy Congdon’s project ‘Biological… Read more »
24Aug
Can you imagine how many diners would pay more attention to this table than normal? Just adding the idea of heat sensor plastic to a table which experiences heat from plates, arms, hands, candles etc… Read more »
24Aug
Sonja Bäumel (IN)VISIBLE MEMBRANE
In: Fashion, Freelance designer London, MA Design Studies/Applied Imagination, Product Design
Sonja Bäumel has envisioned a world where the skins bacteria can be used to ‘grow’ materials unique and specially formed to the body. Ideally the skin would grow thicker material in the area where it is… Read more »
24Aug
Bone rings exchanged by couples
In: Fashion, Freelance designer London, MA Design Studies/Applied Imagination, Product Design
“Using bioglass, a special bioactive ceramic which mimics the structure of bone material, researchers are growing rings made out of the couples’ bone.” BBC Perhaps the process of transposing or transmuting identity or presence into… Read more »
24Aug
Animals taking the designing role
In: Freelance designer London, MA Design Studies/Applied Imagination
“We asked the animals to help us” Front This is a great project by Front - enabling animals to design products, creating truly unique products. And this isn’t a quick process either – to an extent the products… Read more »
24Aug
Suzanne Lee grows clothes from a mixture of bacteria, yeast and sweetened green tea. “Designed for life by life, this pulsating concoction brings forth fibers that will sprout and propagate, eventually resulting in thin, wet sheets of… Read more »
23Aug
“Right now i would say we are entering into the crisis of interactivity. We have to have art which mirrors how we interact with the real world.” George Fifield Art React is one of the… Read more »
23Aug
Marie Ilse Bourlanges is a firm believer in slow design – namely slow textiles and a lot of her work has been inspirational to my MA Applied Imagination project. “FOR ME, TEXTILE HAS AN INTRINSIC… Read more »
16Aug
This is a really interesting article by Adrian Shaughnessy at the Guardian, about how branding and brainwashing is really going to far – maybe enough to cause violence. http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-politics-of-desire-and-looting/29508/#.TkqVfiZ3zXM.facebook Certainly makes you think.
16Aug
This is a great app added to Linkedin to make keeping up to date even more easy – no more logging into multiple profiles! More details here: http://mashable.com/2010/07/19/behance-linkedin/
13Jul
Nightstand by ROLU image © Adrian Gaut for PIN-UP The bedside table is an often forgotten piece of furniture, or is the edge of the bed/pile of books/clothes/stuff next to the bed; so it’s great… Read more »
23May
I love this holographic fashion show – to me it seems abstract from the normal boring and monotonous fashion shows and add art and movement to fashion. 3D Holographic Fashion Show from Tim Jockel on… Read more »
