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design
Designs That Move: Noguchi Lamp
Isamu Noguchi loved working in forms that suggested light and weightlessness. His Akari Freeform column floor lamp is still in production.
Designs That Move: Chanel No. 5 Box
I often use the Chanel No. 5 Box as my design brief to web designers. It is completely white, except for a black border, and the letters.
Designs That Move: Deborah Krupenia Vessel
“The intimate object is always my concern. The small scale of jewelry is an appealing format for my continued research in surface and form development, using my well-established palette of Japanese copper alloys (most of which I make) and colored golds and the technique of married metals.” – Deborah’s Artist’s Statement.
Designs That Move: Noguchi Table
If you’ve ever wondered which designers have inspired Steve Jobs, Isamu Noguchi is one of them. Here’s a famous table by the Japanese master.
Designs That Move: Issey Miyake Watch
“The designer’s imagination is infinite, as time flow. But even the time is the subject to design: look what they create!” Read more about uncommon watch designs here.
Designs That Move: Fabric & Fabrication
I’m not sure who designed this, but since I was on the subject of Issey Miyake, who has been a great experimenter with innovative fabrics and fabrication, this design just blew me away! I don’t believe this is one of his, though.
Designs That Move: Reiko Ishiyama Brooch
“The delicious paradox of quantum physics is that matter exists simultaneously as particle and as wave. Much of Reiko Ishiyama’s recent jewelry shares that strange condition, appearing concurrently as both object and gesture, point and vector.” See more of Reiko’s work here.
Designs That Move: Wright’s Xanadu Gallery
The San Francisco Maiden Lane gallery (previously a gift store) was used by Frank Lloyd Wright as a physical prototype, or proof of concept for the circular ramp at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. More on wikipedia.
