Porteur is a new membership based bicycle brand and concept. It comes to life with a promise – One for One. The Porteur bicycle is designed for a unique look and feel, but made truly special by those...
Ett Hem (a home in English) is a new hotel in Stockholm situated in a classic townhouse in a peaceful residential area called Lärkstan. Ett Hem just got 12 rooms and each of them are designed individ...
Today, the latest venture by Nordic Fashion Association is launched: an online campaignhelping consumers make conscious choices and changing consumer behavior. The goal of the campaign entitled NICE ...
Architech Judith Benzer has made a striking summer house situated in the Southern Burgenland region of Austria. The architecture is oriented by the style of the Kellerstöckel (wine house) which are t...
Norwegian jewellery engineer Sigurd Bronger receives the 2012 Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize of SEK 1,000,000 (approx EUR 110,000). Sigurd Bronger is a jewellery designer who works in the sphere o...
Dutch designer Dave Hakkens has just finished a new project named he named Plug Book. It’s a multiple socket shaped like a book always hidden in the middle of your living room. However, to be a...
The exhibition ’Masonite: Memoriam’ by Anna Holmquist and Chandra Ahlsell of the Swedish design duo Folkform displays a series of cabinets exclusively designed for Svenskt Tenn. The Masonite sheets t...
The Widlund vacation house by Swedish architects Claesson Koivisto Rune is like a funnel of light, space and sea views. The location is the west coast of the Baltic island of Öland. The white concret...
Leica has released the X2, a new addition to the X-line of compact digital cameras. At David Report we have tried the predecessor called X1 a couple of times and have always been happy with the quali...
Renowned shoe artist Christian Louboutin makes his mark at The Design Museum in London to celebrate the brand’s 20th Anniversary. The exhibition takes you through his journey from life as a cobbler t...
When implementing an aesthetic strategy, one of the initial consideration is deciding whether your are aiming for “instant presence” or “instant payoff”. In my previous post, ...
There is noting permanent, but change. – Heraclitus (535-475 BC) According to the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, we now live in a “Liquid Society” where reality keeps changing at a very fast pace ...
There are very few good looking slimline bike lights. Copenhagen Parts wanted something that looked good, worked well and, most importantly, could be fitted and removed instantly. The answer was – ma...
Just this morning I read an article from yesterdays paper about Coursera – a new free online and interactive education system initiated by two American professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller f...
David Report is just back from two days at the Milan Design Week. We had the normal “Groundhog Day experience” (it’s our 23rd year in a row) – Milan in April is an epicenter o...
Swedish design trio Front will present the Surface Tension Lamp during the Milan Design Week 2012. Here are their words about the lamp: A bubble is brief, and bursts at your touch. But while it lasts...
Coherence light by Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken is a conceptual project researching light and the reflection of light. It’s an experimentation as the exploded concept of a lamp, formed no...
Gaëlle Gabillet & Stéphane Villard have made a Curiosity object which is both pieces of furniture and display windows. The lights act as small curiosity cabinets highlighting the beauty and stran...
Shanghai based design brand Stellar Works now brings their cross-culturally inspired design universe to the European market presenting several collections at Galleria Cartiere Vannucci in Porta Roman...
We are normally not that excited by new wall shelves. But the new Corniche glossy pedestals by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Vitra have a subtle elegance that stand out. We have to admit that the Bo...
Dutch-based design duo BCXSY has just finished the latest chapter of their Origin series. Contrast, as the third chapter is called, will be presented next week during the Milan Design Week at Spazio ...
I have written about one of Jonathan Harris’ projects before – back then it was Cowbird. Now it is something older, but nonetheless equally fascinating. “We feel fine” is a pr...
Where does it come from? How was it grown? These are important food issues for all modern societies with high health-conciusness. The questioning turned into a major concern in the Japan after the T...
Barcelona based design studio Lagranja has just finished the signature suites at the top four floors of a new hotel in Kowloon, a district in Hong Kong and probably the place with the highest populat...
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have just announced the upcoming launch of their new book that sets out the result of almost fifteen years of mutual collaboration. Works is a comprehensive monograph featu...
The Bellows luggage collection designed by Benjamin Hubert for Nava will be launched during Salone Del Mobile 2012 in Milan. The activity will take place in the Nava flagship store on via Durini 23. ...
Continuing the thoughts of my previous post - and thereby the development of the aesthetic strategy, I am working on at the moment - I intend to discuss what extending the “payoff time” i...
The O’SUN NOMAD solar lamp has been designed to meet a need, or rather several very different needs, to improve the quality of life of its users and to promote sustainable development. NOMAD is desig...
When travelling you will find hotels with different identities based on a lot of different thematic ideas. Good Hotel in San Francisco has a nice and important theme – doing good. Creative home...
At the moment I am occupied with the thought of creating a model for an aesthetic strategy. A way of organizing a design process around e.g. the following questions: What kind of aesthetic experience...
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