Zimoun

Swiss artist Zimoun uses sound in order to create magic.

His work is very minimal, based on reductive methods, aesthetics and simplicity, Zimoun creates artificial simple systems, which generate very complex and somehow living structures in sound and motion.

Ball Chair

Ball Chair, a classic of the design history, was created by Finnish furniture designer Eero Aarnio in 1963 and even now it still leads by example in design.

Papercuts

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” That’s whatMichaelangelo said, some 500 years ago. I could also easily have been a quote from contemporary artist Peter Callesen, were it not that Calleson’s material isn’t marble – it’s paper.

When I look at a sheet of A4 paper, I see a printable object. Callesen however sees little stories, hidden within them: failytales, romantic encounters, or dramatic tragedies.

Works in Paper

Sydney-based freelance designer and paper artist Bianca Chang has created a collection of 3-dimensional letterforms – Works in Paper.
The recreation of the 3D effect was achieved by hand-plotting and cutting multiple sheets of 80gsm 100% post consumer waste recycled paper. This minimises the impact of paper consumption and consciously transforms a typically disposable medium into a long term piece of art.

Wherever dual time watch

Milan based Denis Guidone created a dual time watch named ‘Wherever’ for Nava Design.

By simply adding an extra hour hand, in a different color to show time in another time zone, he created a minimalist watch for globetrotters.

Weight Vases

Thai designer Decha Archjananun of Thinkk Studio has created Weight Vases – a collection of vases with concrete bases to hold water, and laser cut steel wire frames to support flower stems. The collection comprises various shapes and sizes to accommodate specific flower arrangements.

QlockTwo

A great alternative to numerical clocks is this worded clock by Biegert & Funk.

Called QlockTwo, this clock tells the time using words highlighted by LEDs. It is available in numerous colours and languages.

Agbaria House

This home in Tel Aviv, Agbaria House, is a pared down, minimalistic rendition of traditional Islamic architecture. Designed by Tel Aviv architectRon Fleisher, it combines the rich, lush element of the mashrabiya screens with simple, elegant lines of modernist architecture.

The house maintains certain typical building elements, like high vents for natural ventilation, high vaulted ceilings, and the traditional liwan, around which the private areas of the house are arranged, all the while adapted to contemporary needs and a simple, geometric aesthetic.

Photography by Shai Epstein.

Eve

Eve is the futuristic white robot from the successful animation movie Wall-E, created by Pixar in 2008.

Eve is absolutely seamless: one single body without edges. All its technology is beautifully hidden inside.

You may recognize some Apple influences, and if so, you are very right: Apple’s lead designer Jonathan Ive participated in Eve’s design.

The D-Premier

What at first glance looks like the sleekest of weighing scales, the D-Premier is actually a piece of high-end, hifi kit.

This wall-mountable unit, produced by French audiophiles Devialet, comprises of both stereo pre- and power amplifiers and a DAC.

It packs 480 watts of power and connects to a number of multimedia devices via HDMI, Toshlink, XLR and RS-232 ports among others. It is also wifi compatible. There’s obviously a lot of tech packed in under the under the hood.

Circus

Inspired by “the playfulness of the big top” industrial designer Stephen Burks, founder of the New York studio Readymade Projects, created a hand-made shelving system. Burks – considered to be one of the most recognized American industrial designers of his generation – is with his studio responsible for creative direction and industrial design on projects ranging from retail interiors, events, packaging, consumer products and lighting.

The idea is simple; each unit includes up to eight steel, colorful, wired cages that can plugged in easily into the oak surfaces. This makes the shelving unit is easy to (dis-)assemble without any tools.

Circus, manufactured by Mattermade, is available in a 1, 2 or 3 shelves edition.

Poles Apart

London Metropolitan University graduate Adrian Bergman has designed Poles Apart – a modular retail display system. Each unit is assembled using rubber o-rings as its only additional fastenings. The units are free from any glue and are constructed from ash and plywood.

O house

Located in the ancient japanese city of Kyoto, the O house by Hideyuki Nakayama architecture is a kind of lean-to structure extending from a main 2-storey house.

Shadow Chair

This Shadow Chair is a design of Chris Duffy of Duffy London, a British design firm producing furniture, lighting and interior products.

At first glance, this chair seems to defy gravity, by standing upright while only having two front legs.

It is only on closer inspection that you see that the shadow is part of the chair, and made from steel, which is attached to a metal frame built inside the chair: the chair is resting on its own shadow.

Cloud Gate

The Indian-born, London-based sculptor Anish Kapoor (1954) lets art and architecture show off.

His sculpture is in many ways one long ode to the minimalist monochrome and its emphasis on simplicity and purity, but he has also explored different materials such as fibreglass and reflective metal surface to create organic forms that mirror the viewer.

The Cloud Gate, an enormous, shiny, pillowlike archway at Millennium Park in Chicago is a perfect example of his work.

Geo Blocks

Geo Blocks are a set of seven geometric wooden shapes, made in Russia. Initially designed for drawing exercises but also very useful as minimalistic paperweights on your desk.

AMAC Plastic Box

Sleek, simple and stackable, the AMAC plastic boxes have been in production for over 50 years since Gene Hurwitt introduced them to the pharmaceutical industry. They were soon adapted by Andy Warhol and today are a part of MoMA’s permanent design collection.

Hugo

As her diploma project at British Higher School of Art & Design, Russian designer Kate Pashinova has produced a chair called Hugo.

The Hugo chair draws on Scandinavian style with minimalistic features whilst accommodating the needs of people in public spaces like cafes or exhibitions, where you can rest in comfort with your belongings, which may hang on the single armrest.

Buddha Machine

The Buddha Machine is nothing more or less than a little plastic ambient music generator that looks like a transitor radio. It can play nine digitally encoded music loops, created by experimental music duo FM3.

Shelframe

A simple idea, executed with so much care: Shelframe, by London-based designer Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad.

The shelves are designed to occupy a space normally reserved for a framed picture or painting, and they act so as to frame compositions of everyday objects.

Curt

The Curt deck chair by Swiss design studio BERNHARD | BURKARD, uses leaning to do away with the minimum requirement of a third leg on a chair.

Nonspace

Nonspace is a series of photographs by UK-based photographer Emily Grundon.

Jar Lamp

London and Avignon based design office Noon Studio, founded by Gautier Pelegrin and Vincent Taïani, created the Jar Lamp. The Jar Lamp is a lathed wooden table lamp with rotating lids which act as switches to control the intensity of the light. The result is a minimalist furniture piece. With the light switched on it is almost a magic box preserving a bright light.

Aspiral Clock

Will Aspinall and Neil Lambeth created this, the Aspiral Clock.

Measuring a half day, the clock itself rotates while the ball starts on the outside and gradually runs along the spiral until it reaches the centre and drops down the hole, back to the start—a cycle that takes exactly twelve hours.