Designd & Designed

Designd & Designed

Designd & Designed featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Snow drop

Snow Drop is a ceiling and modular lighting. His convenience is the regulation of its luminosity by modulation thanks to the smooth pulley system. Step by step by playing with the counterweight the user is able to increase and decrease the luminosity. The modulation of this design reminds the different stages of blooming of a snowdrop from the beginning with the tetrahedron to the end with the four triangle fractal. The vintage amber Edison bulb is inserted into a tetrahedral exclusive box made of opalescent white plexi, when the design is closed.

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Reader Collection

Reader Collection is a series of bedside lamps. The collection consists of six lamps available in different types of wood and metal: cherry, oak and walnut combined with stainless steel or brass. The idea behind Reader is inspired by mechanism of canvas easel, simplicity of movement. The lamp allows the user to manually adjust the direction of light. The light can be easily adjusted to different positions which emits direct or indirect light, depending on the function to be achieved.

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lichtzeitraum, biennale vennice

Our entire world is structured by light and shade, time and rhythm, emotion and perception. In lichtzeitraum by Ueberholz it is precisely this spatial perception that is made tangible through light, music and rhythm. Different lighting phases create wide spaces making the vastness tangible or other narrow, close spaces that enclose and restrict you. A window arrangement along the back of the room, which matches the changing spatial suggestion perfectly, serves as a striking design element. The aim of projects by Ueberholz is to give the architecture a feeling of permanence and stability.

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Megurogawa minna no illumination

Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear accident happened in 2011. Most Japanese were required to take power saving measures, however, illumination decoration with Christmas business was seen in central Tokyo. CreativeOut started to hold an event which allowed them to use the new energy solution. This illumination was lit up by refining waste oil, from households and restaurants where the event was held, into biodiesel fuels to illuminate the area along the Megurogawa river and supported by the government, donations from regional companies.

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Mesh

Mesh is a lampshade that let’s the end-user giving it the final shape. This will give the lampshade a personal touch for the end-user, making every lampshade unique. As for shipment of Mesh it comes only 0,5mm thick and 300mm in diameter, which makes a perfect flat package. It can then expand from 0,5mm toa round 15cm in height. The end-user can also attach two Mesh together to form a top and bottom part, a system to fasten the parts together is already integrated in the product and no further tools or products is needed.

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Orchid

Pascal’s working process is one of constant experiments with techniques and materials, completed when his products display his envisioned aesthetic effect and practicality and durability. Delight infuses his design process, which produces works that draw in the viewer, often with an irresistible urge to touch the objects. His objects express boldness, freedom and creative originality. Pascal overcomes the frustrations of complex design processes through experimentation to produce original and practical domestic objects that depict and engender happiness in a way that is complex and profound.

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