Designers of the Future - Front

Previously mentioned on Miosite here, here and here. Front design have now been named Designer of the Future at Design Miami/Basel 2007

Previously mentioned on Miosite here, here and here. Front design have now been named Designer of the Future at Design Miami/Basel 2007

The Plastic Fantastic Club Chair from Studio Jspr coated with a SoftSkin available in 16 colours and suitable for outdoor use.

As always Pol Oxygen have put together great coverage of the Milan Design Week 2007

Marcel Wanders' latest work for the Milan Furniture Fair 2007 is now on his website.
There are references to his resin knotted chair as well as his ornate baroque designs from a couple of years ago.

British designer Ross Lovegrove shows off some of his latest work at Philips de Pury & Company in New York. Dezeen have the pics
London based Japanese designer Emiko Oki has some conceptually rich product design

Dialogue Lounge Seating from Hickory Business Furniture

If you have a kitchen light that is ugly and in need of beautification, then you could try Eric's DIY: Easy to Build Modern Light Panel

Coree77 have opened up their gallery of images from the Cologne Furniture Fair

Two new works by Marc Newson are currently being exhibited at the Gagosian Gallery in New York
The New York Times takes a look at the new Droog exhibition at the Museum of Arts & Design.
Modular wall hanging from Mos - IVY

Soft furnishings that can be left lying around anywhere, thrown about and played with - Livingstones from Smarin design
Front Design sketch furniture forms in space then rapid prototype them into a tactile reality

Photos from the recent Belgium Furniture Fair and as part of Dutch Design Week the Eindhoven Design Academy graduation show

Swedish Design group - Office 4 ideas

To celebrate the 70th Birthday of the original 1227 Anglepoise Lamp, a limited edition, three times life size version of the lamp can now be bought from Anglepoise.

Dutch designer - Joost Wever

Swiss designed and produced compact and flexible furniture for young and mobile urbanites since 1997 - it design

Parisian based designer of interesting conceptual furniture - Robert Stadler

The water resistant air chair from PS Lab - for when you need a more nautical theme.

Dune Furniture design from New York

Recently voted 'Best of the Best' at the 100% Design Rotterdam, Marc de Groot's GlowSMLXL

A new series of taps from Equa, where the coloured light reflects the warmth of the water.

Sauma is a New York exhibition profiling Finnish design. Above is 'Take Out' by Klaus Aalto, resembling a traditional chest of drawers with the exception that the drawers have been replaced by portable briefcases.
International Contemporary Furniture Fair roundup: New York Times discusses the practical side of style - young designers coming to terms with costing, manufacturing and business models.
Design*sponge has a couple of long looks at the fair: part 1, part 2

Interesting forms from Chris Bosse

A table made from pre-cast iron fence pieces - the fenced in table

Pol Oxygen have a good selection of images from this years Frankfurt light + building 2006

Some stylish designs from Finnish duo JÄRVI & RUOHO

Robin Carpenter's 'Spiralight' - made from 216 LEDs - via

New York design studio dform specialise in the manipulation of flat sheet materials into 3d forms

Industrial design site Core77 have just posted their images from Milan design week 2006

Carrying on their great coverage of international design events, Pol Oxygen provide a good overview from Milan Design Week 2006

Régine Debatty from We make money not art has been visiting the Milan design week 2006. Her photos are available as a Flickr set

Some great looking lighting and furniture designs available for purchase at surrounding.com

Mocoloco have a good set of images from this years Cologne International Furniture Fair
Some good furniture/object/product design from the UK - Innermost

Some great designs from Japanese designer Kouichi Okamoto at Kyouei

Furniture, lighting and product design - ldesign

Some good images from Ambient Frankfurt Housewares show 2006

A hand woven three dimensional structure made from springy fiberglass rods, bowed into rings and woven into dodecahedra - BioWall
The Vitra Headline - a new comfortable office chair

Well designed products from Eva Solo
Bob Prost, designer for Hermann Miller and the person behind the office cubicle has come out as a critic of his own idea - cubicles: the great mistake

Interior designer Masamichi Katayama and his company Wonderwall have done some interesting work for the BAPE boutique in AOYAMA, Japan

The Charlotte Van Der Waals world time clock - to find the local hour in another time zone, simply roll the clock so that the city representing that time zone is on top. - via popgadget

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioki

American furniture designer Morgan Levine
Furniture powerhouse B&B Italia has purchased the fresh, energetic Dutch design group moooi

Kisskalt Designs have designed a simple yet clever system for shelving - the Flexi Tube shelving system. - via mocoloco

Pol Oxygen have a good selection of photographs from this years Cologne Furniture fair. If you speak Dutch, you can get the latest news on the fair from Bright.

Austrian Furniture designer Rainer Mutsch

Unto this last produces their work on on computer-controlled machines. Each product is made to order, customized for each client, from a selection of sizes, materials and options. This way each item has it's logistics costs reduced considerably.

origami designer Tomoko Fuse has designed a way of folding your own floor lamp cover from one piece of medium to heavyweight paper (14" x 22")

Japanese furniture and product designer Arihiro Miyaki

Swiss Typographic furniture from Set26

Invented by Australian designer William Rhodes - the echelon stackable wine rack

Bel’ Occhio is both a mulitiposition spotlight and ambient table lamp combined - via mocoloco
Young German product design group specialising in furniture and accessories - Sternform

Pascal Tarabay's cuckoo clock - via design*sponge
Organic design from the UK - Item

Some quality British and European designs to browse over at smallpond