Gifts for Product Designers

Future-kind

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Structured into eight areas of application, from healthcare to education, this book showcases over sixty projects Rather than being client-driven, as commercial design often is, each project here is the result of designers who reach out, communities who get involved and the technologies that help people to realise ideas together From a playground-powered water pump in South Africa to a DIY budget cellphone, each of these groundbreaking projects is presented through fascinating stories, diagrams that reveal the mechanisms and motivations behind each design approach

Bisley 5 Drawer Unit - White (Ex-Display)

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Since it’s inception in 1931, Bisley has become a brand synonymous with the design and manufacture of high-quality, innovative storage products for the workplace and home Their most iconic product, the Bisley Multi Drawer, was first conceived in 1958 and has been helping to organise our lives ever since Made from steel, with a powder coated finish, each drawer has a chrome handle with integrated label holder Designed by Frederick Charles Brown PLEASE NOTE: these items are ex-display and have scuffs and scratches from use in store - see photos

Moving to Mars: Design for the Red Planet Catalogue

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Edited by Justin McGuirk, Andrew Nahum and Eleanor Watson  Designed by Studio Julia  Getting humans to Mars has become one of the great challenges of our time. It will be an extraordinary technological feat, but also a feat of design. This is the first book dedicated to designing for the Red Planet. From life on a spacecraft to survival on Mars’ inhospitable surface, new forms of clothing, farming and architecture will be needed. This volume looks at the real work designers and architects are generating now – as well as more speculative proposals of what this future might look like. Some ask whether we should go to Mars at all, while others argue that the rigours of such a mission would force us to design a waste-free way of life.  Illustrated with more than 300 images and featuring original essays by leading thinkers in their field, Moving to Mars: Design for the Red Planet includes projects by NASA, SpaceX and the European Space Agency, as well as new work by designers and architects including HASSELL, Konstantin Grcic, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and RÆBURN. It also includes an interview with the science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, who addresses why speculative design is the ideal discipline for imagining the ‘material grammar' of a life on Mars

A3 Wafer Light Panel

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The A3 Wafer Light Panel is the latest generation of lightweight ultra slim side-lit light boxes for A3 paper using fully dimmable LED technology Providing an even spread of light with low heat emission, the Wafer light box is ideal for tracing, sketching, stencilling, calligraphy, scrap booking, embossing, embroidery, sewing and much more Supplied with a mains adaptor

Industrial Design in the Modern Age

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An ambitious new survey of industrial design from 1900 to the present day in the United States, Europe, and around the world, as told through selected objects from the George R. Kravis II Collection Destined to become a new classic in the design genre, this major work summarises an enormous topic—the creation of everyday objects for mass production and consumption from 1900 to the present—and shows how these products have become both symbols of the modern age and harbingers of our future. It covers the work of the heroes of modern and post-modern design, from the early pioneers—Dreyfuss, Bel Geddes, and Eames—to the leaders in the field today, including Starck, Newson, and Ive More than 200 objects from the Kravis Design Centre’s collection are highlighted as important exemplars of industrial design. A wide range of media is represented, including furniture, metalwork, ceramics, and plastics. New research by contributing scholars has uncovered illuminating details about each object that help tell a more complete story of design in the past 100 years Among the more than 400 photographs, which include a wealth of historical images and ephemera, are those of the objects taken especially for this book and seen as never before, in vibrant colour and precise detail. This concise new history introduces a whole new audience to the topic in a style that is at once educational and accessible

Wooden Doll No.20

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Alexander Girard created this charming cohort of partly joyful, partly grim-looking dolls to decorate his home in Santa Fe Vitra have lovingly reproduced a collection of dolls based on originals found in the Girard Estate Originally intended for personal use, the dolls are now part of the Vitra Design Museum Collection Alexander Girard was one of the decisive figures in post-War American design The focus of his broad oeuvre was on textile design, and a key source of inspiration for him was his passion for the popular art of South America, Asia and East Europe View the collection of wooden dolls

Plumen 001 LED bulb pendant

£49.00

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The Plumen Pendant is designed to be the perfect partner for the Plumen 001 LED light bulbs but is also suitable for other bulbs Includes a painted metal ceiling rose, lamp holder, drop cap and two metres of matching fabric cable The Plumen Pendant is suitable for installation in any ceiling and the cable length can be adjusted to your preference Available in black, white and copper Please note: this product is only suitable for bulbs with an E27 Edison Screw fitting

Design for the Corporate World: 1950-1975

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Architectural, industrial, and graphic design in the United States from the 1950s through to the 1970s - generally known as mid-century modern - is now perceived as a golden era, with artists such as Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, and Eliot Noyes having become household names. This volume looks at the relationship between these designers and the companies who employed them, highlighting the political, social and cultural circumstances in which seminal design icons such as the Selectric Typewriter for IBM and the distinctive Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company logo were created It reveals not only why corporations during this period needed designers more than ever before, but also why designers felt ambivalent about their work for these large businesses. In doing so, it sheds new light on the changing self-image of the designer and on these famous mid-century graphic, product, and furniture designs Full colour throughout, this volume is richly illustrated with fascinating archival photography, concept sketches and beautiful illustrations of the logos, products and buildings designed for the companies