Design For You

Design For You

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

 

maolus

The name of this design is called máolus – meaning máo bi (Chinese brush) + stylus. In Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, it is practiced in a unique way that requires the user to hold the brush in a vertical gesture. Moreover, the tip of the brush is always kept pointed for easier control of brush stroke width. The nylon rope at the end of the brush is a salute to the traditional Chinese brush design. Overall, the máolus is a combination of Chinese heritage with today’s technology, integrating the past wisdom into future possibility.

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Paper Clip - Locking

This is a sleek and modern design staple-free stapler, this staple-free stapler can "staple" together up to 5 sheets of 64g /m paper. The internal cutting mechanic cuts out tiny strips of paper from each sheet and stitches them together by one press and the sheets of paper will be affixed together. We are the original inventor for the staple free stapler, we are keeping on making new looks and refresh our design, now, we have more than 10 different looks in our family and hope one of them will be in your pocket.

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PENCIL

Themed informative pencil sets with matching acrylic pencil rings; encompassing the convenience and aesthetics of ready packaged gifts. Minimise wastage of wrapping materials, through the use of an acrylic ring to bind the pencils that can be reused as a pendant for a necklace or for a key ring. Pencil themes started with British themes including London Underground, Cockney Rhyming Slangs; from the idea to reimagine and redefine the typical union jack British souvenir pencil for gifting, extending to include Morse Codes, love, cocktail recipe, broadening the scope and audience gifting pencils.

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Triangle Notebook

The Triangle notebook is a subversive approach to the traditional rectangular notebook. Its triangle shape opens up as a perfect square on which to write. The lines are positioned at 90 degrees on each side. Thus, each ruled page turns into a squared page, if back lit. Its shape makes it easy to carry around and suitable for short notes and drawings.

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ACUTOR

When one cuts pencil, sawdust is generated. In the triangular flask, sawdust is contained without being hided. I think not to hide is natural, and such a naturalness is beautiful. ‘Acutor’ containing beauty is the pencil cutter considering both its esthetics and practicality.

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Halfwood

With twenty years in university teaching fine art printmaking and twenty in new art technologies, Bill Ritchie designs a beautiful, functional printing presses apposite to his art, craft and teaching goals. As printmaking is the ancestor of technologies of communication, to add digital communication in his press design came naturally by fitting USB flash memory SME and thereby creating the world's first smart art instrument in his small, beautiful Halfwood printing press.

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World's greatest design teams.

Sometimes you need a very big team of talented designers to come up with truly great designs. Everyday, we feature a distinct award-winning innovative and creative design team. Explore and discover original and creative architecture, good design, fashion, graphics design and design strategy projects from design teams worldwide. Get inspired by the original works by grand master designers.

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