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Design For You

Design For You featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Sostanza

Sostanza is a simplified lead holder that combines the warmth of a traditional pencil with the convenience of a propelling pencil. It's composed of only two pieces, the lightweight wooden body and the external ring that slides up to lock the lead in place. Its functioning is elemental but not taken for granted, all the mechanisms have been eliminated, in order to simplify the assembling process and improve its sustainability. Sostanza is a handmade object, entirely produced in Italy using beautiful natural materials.

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Memento

All start with thankful. A series of letter openers that reflects occupations: Memento is not just a set of tools but also a series of objects that expresses the user’s gratitude and feelings. Through product semantics and simple images of different professions, the designs and the unique ways each Memento piece is used give the user various heartfelt experiences.

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Life

During the use of a pencil sharpener, the generation of crumbs can feel redundant. He designed the way of the pencil sharpener as a circular closed-loop time progress bar. Insert the pencil and rotate it gently. Discarded waste is loaded like a progress bar. When the progress bar rotates 360 degrees, it also means that the pencil is 100% pointed.

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Colors

The watercolour pen set is characterised by its extraordinary packaging, which can be displayed, hung up or set up when flipped open, thus offering practical handling. The hanging hole and support plate are convenient for the presentation in shops, while the box can be flipped open to use, enabling the user to comfortably pick pens. The pens have an oval cross section, which on the one hand prevents them from rolling away and on the other hand provides ergonomic grip.

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Stand By

A promotional calendar for goo, the Internet portal site that originated in Japan, this is an upgraded version of the desk calendar with pockets that has been a popular item every year. The 2018 version of the pocket calendar has a multi-function tray. User can put items on the desk — pens, clips, tags and a mobile. A pocket-type calendar is useful because you can store notes, business cards, receipts each month. The one-point illustrations are casually directing the seasonal feeling.

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Bindship

Bindship is a binder clip brand aiming to find the hidden value in a simple thing and cherish it. Something in daily life would be binded by Bindship, and therefore it builds a more special relationship than ever before. Also, Bindship provides not only different sizes but also different pressures of binder clips. There are 3 different pressures of clip so that buyers can choose depending on how many papers they are going to bind. It can help to prevent remaining trace of a clip on the paper.

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Design interview of the day

Read the latest interviews and conversations on design, creativity and innovation between design journalist and world-famous designers, artists and architects. See latest design projects and award-winning designs by famous designers, artists, architects and innovators. Discover new insights on creativity, innovation, arts, design and architecture. Learn about design processes of great designers.

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