Gifts for Product Designers

Bisley 5 Drawer Unit - Black (Ex-Display)

£78.00

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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

Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech

£49.99

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Born to Ghanaian parents in Rockford, Illinois, Virgil Abloh launched his career as a member of Kanye West's creative team in 2002 Ever since, his diverse professional and artistic endeavours have spanned work at Fendi, art directing musical albums, launching a sports-inspired fashion label, developing a multi-platform brand, starting a furniture collection, launching a collaborative exhibition with Takashi Murakami, publishing a song, and forming a partnership with Nike Most recently he was named artistic director at Louis Vuitton This multi-faceted and vibrant book accompanies the first retrospective of his work, which is being presented in his hometown of Chicago in 2019 Images of his creations in the world of fashion, furniture, graphic arts, architecture, and collaborations with other artists are accompanied by essays that view his work through the lens of the African diaspora and explore his remarkable fluidity between high and low culture At the core of this book is Abloh's deep interest in empowering young people, an optimistic stance that reflects his generous energy and willingness to turn the status quo on its head

A3 Wafer Light Panel

£185.00

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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

£45.00 £65.00

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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

£75.00 £90.00

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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

Reparatur / Repair: Encouragement to Think and Make

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Arising from a course on repair at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich, this book responds to our culture of disposability and built-in obsolescence, to encourage thinking and making, from product design to architecture

Designs of our Time: 10 Years of Designs of the Year

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This book celebrates the ten-year anniversary of the Designs of the Year exhibition at the Design Museum. It is unique worldwide survey of contemporary design, reflecting a period of enormous social and technological change that began with the launch of the iPhone in 2007  A total of 840 innovative and thought-provoking designs from across the world, selected by 205 nominators, are featured in design categories: 135 projects in architecture, 117 in digital, 92 in fashion, 145 in graphics, 275 in product and 76 in transport Ranging from the scale of Zaha Hadid’s architecture to Harvard’s human organs-on-chips project, these are some of the designs that have defined our times: Alexander McQueen’s bridal dress for the Duchess of Cambridge, Google’s self-driving car, the London 2012 Olympic Torch, Pokémon Go, David Adjaye’s newly opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, and many more