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The Design Magazine

The Design Magazine featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

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The folding chair adopts tilting on chairs as the design principle, the user is actively involved in sitting on it. The two necessary legs of the chair are transformed into two thin panels with their bottom edges touching on the floor as a skid. They are wrapped with a band of fabric, that connects the top edges of the panels to a flexible seat, that automatically nestles to the back contour of the user. This design grants an active and most flexible sitting position, a reduction of its construction and required materials. Not being used it can be collapsed to a thickness of less than 20 mm.

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Schiele

Named after one of the greatest figurative painters of the 20th century, Schiele , is a simple new modern, comfortable and universal chair. Discovering the true nature of human by his expressive physical figure paintings, Egon Schiele was the true inspiration to find what the best shape to embrace a human body is. It's usage and the feeling it gives is depended on the place that it's being used and it's completely depended on what color you choose for it, too.

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Sputnik

The Sputnik Chair is directly inspired from the Sputnik satellite. The world’s first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58cm, or 22.8inches, in diameter). Harow achieved to use the exact diameter of the satellite for the seat. As simple as it looks, it is a real technical challenge in its making. Its 4 asymmetric feet reflect the satellite antenna which are very thin. It was a big challenge to make them ensure a flawless contact with the ground. Simple, crude and made out of steel, the chair also demonstrates how basic materials can be used with elegance.

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Ji Mu

With certain numbers of these simple but magical parts, chair, small tea table, bench and even wine rack would be easily assembled and put into use in users' own way. Only the imagination is needed in this section. Users can find their own ways to build their own Ji Mu. The question that how the Ji Mu would be is remain for the users.

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The Only

The clock was designed as a modern three dimensional interpretation of a traditional analog wall clock with the clean style - there’s nothing superfluous, nothing redundant, the surfaces gently curve and flow around the internal components. The clock literally ‘passes’ the environment through itself, dissolves it, and at the same time fulfills its function and projects the symbolic image of eternally flowing time. Understated design coupled with inventiveness and functionality make this the right choice for telling the time at home or in workspace.

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Diodon Solium

Diododon Soliun is designed as an art object with full furniture functionality. It can be used as an armchair, with an optional puff fastened to the back, or as a sofa for one person. The object's carcass is made of mechanic and bone - shaped, polished plywood sheets, tied together with uncovered steel bolts. The soft parts are made of black leather, refined using an old technology, where the face is colored and the back face stays untouched. Soft parts are fastened to the carcass with belts. The polished wood elements are used for reinforcement, decoration and covering the construction joints

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